Grief & Loss Therapy in Colts Neck, NJ

Grief is one of the most universal — and most isolating — human experiences. It does not follow a schedule, respect your responsibilities, or respond to the well-meaning advice of others to simply move on. Whether you are mourning the death of a beloved person, the end of a relationship, a lost identity, an unfulfilled dream, or a life that did not unfold as you had hoped — your grief is real, it is valid, and it deserves to be truly witnessed.

At Dr. Dana Spada Psychotherapy, we honor every form of grief without timelines, without judgment, and without pressure to feel anything other than exactly what you feel.

Grief is as individual as the person experiencing it. Dr. Spada supports clients navigating:

• Bereavement: The loss of a loved one — sudden, after prolonged illness, or through ambiguous loss
• Complicated Grief: Grief that feels stuck, intensified, or unresolvable over time
• Anticipatory Grief: Grieving a loss before it happens — a terminal diagnosis or declining health
• Disenfranchised Grief: Loss that society does not always recognize — pets, miscarriage, estrangement
• Relationship Loss: The grief of divorce, breakup, or the end of a significant friendship
• Identity Loss: Grieving who you were before illness, trauma, or a major life transition
• Cumulative Grief: The weight of multiple losses layered on top of one another over time

Dr. Spada provides a deeply compassionate, unhurried space to grieve fully — and in time, to begin rebuilding meaning and connection.

Her integrative approach uses CBT to navigate complicated grief and the thought patterns prolonging suffering, Somatic Therapy to release grief held in the body, DBT to build emotional regulation and distress tolerance during acute grief, Mindfulness to sit with grief compassionately without being consumed by it, and Narrative Therapy to honor your loss while slowly rebuilding meaning and identity.