Grief Counseling
Grief is more than sadness…
It’s the ache of what mattered. The loss no one taught you to mourn. The pain that won’t go away.
Grief lives in the body as heaviness, restlessness, or a quiet numbness. It follows endings no one else sees: the loss of safety, identity, belonging, or the future you once imagined.
You may not even realize that what you’re feeling is grief. You’re angry, disillusioned and resentful and these hard feelings cover what’s underneath.
Most importantly, grief endured alone is unbearable. It needs a human witness to be healed.
And that’s where Sentient Psychotherapy comes in.
Why In-Person Therapy Matters
Catherine Coats MA (she/her)
LMHC-D Senior Therapist & Clinical Supervisor
“I specialize in grief counseling for professionals balancing ambitious careers with complex personal lives, issues around identity, loss, and navigating cross-cultural partnerships.”
Catherine Coats is a senior therapist at Sentient with a particular gift for grief work. She doesn’t rush clients toward acceptance, search for silver linings, or try to make unbearable feelings more comfortable.
Whether you’re mourning a death, the end of a relationship, a shift in identity, or the ache of living in a world that’s full of loss, Catherine offers a place where none of it is too much. Face-to-face, human-to-human, for as long as you need to be there.
At Sentient Psychotherapy, we know that grief needs more than advice, distraction, or even well-meaning words. It needs human presence. Not a screen, not a scroll, not an algorithm. Real human connection.
Grieving alone, or turning to AI or social media, offers an illusion of connection, but it misses the deeper need: to be seen, heard, and emotionally held by another person in real time.
Trained in ACT for grief, Catherine knows how to stay with you in the messiness of grief, while gently helping you make sense of what you’ve lost, who you are now, and how to begin carrying that loss differently.
Stop hurting and start healing
Tianyi Guan MA (she/her/她)
LMHC Senior Therapist
“As a bilingual therapist (English/Mandarin), I work with Asian and Asian-American professionals, women healing from trauma, and couples seeking stronger relationships and lives that feel more authentic and fulfilling.”
As a well-established boutique practice, we create safety to hold what hurts. We offer personalized, multiculturally-focused care from experienced clinicians, along with concierge-level billing support so logistics don’t become another burden.
Tianyi Guan is a grief and trauma specialist at Sentient who understands that grief doesn’t happen in isolation. Who you are, where you come from, and what you’ve been taught about strength, emotion, and loss all shape how you grieve.
You don’t have to grieve the “right” way. You get to feel what’s actually there, make sense of what you’ve lost, and find your own way forward without leaving important parts of yourself behind.
With the right support, grief begins to feel less consuming. You can breathe again, reconnect with the people and parts of life you love, and remember that feeling better doesn’t mean leaving behind what you’ve lost. The loss becomes part of your story without having to define the rest of it.
Choosing to face your loss head on is hard enough. The way there should be as painless as possible.
Your no-risk, free 15 minute consultation is just 5 simple steps away.
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The only thing you have to lose is wondering "what if?"