By Danny L. Ross, M.Ed., CAGCS, CSC, LPC-S, BC-TMH, NCC | Updated August 11, 2026 What helped me was not anything fancy or overly clinical. It was talking with people about their memories and realizing their stories had room for mine too. I did not enter grief support as a therapist first. I entered as a person who had lost people I loved and was trying to understand what life was supposed to mean now. My clinical training gave me language. Grief had already given me the expe