Grief & Loss Counseling

Grief is one of the most universal and least talked-about human experiences. Whether you've lost a spouse, a parent, a child, a friend, a pregnancy, a pet, or a relationship — grief is grief. It's not a problem to be solved on a timeline. It's a process that deserves space, witness, and support.

At Hope's Beacon Counseling in Cheyenne, Wyoming, our therapists walk alongside people in grief without rushing them toward "acceptance" or "moving on." We believe that loss changes us, and the goal of therapy isn't to get back to who you were before — it's to find a way to carry the loss and still build a life that feels worth living.

Types of Loss We Support

We work with clients experiencing bereavement after death — including sudden loss, anticipated loss after illness, suicide loss, and traumatic death. We also support people grieving non-death losses: divorce, miscarriage or infertility, estrangement from family, loss of health, career, identity, or home. Grief doesn't require a death certificate to be real.

Complicated Grief and Prolonged Grief Disorder

When grief becomes prolonged — when daily functioning remains severely impaired long after a loss — specialized treatment can help. Our clinicians are trained in evidence-based approaches for complicated grief, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy adapted for bereavement and trauma-informed interventions for traumatic loss.

Military Loss and Gold Star Families

We have deep respect for the sacrifice of Wyoming's military families. Our therapists are experienced in supporting Gold Star families and veterans who have lost fellow service members — losses that carry a particular weight and rarely fit neatly into civilian grief frameworks.

What a Session Looks Like

There's no right way to grieve, and there's no agenda in a grief session. We follow your lead — sometimes that means talking through memories, sometimes it means processing anger or guilt, sometimes it means sitting in the hard silence together. Sessions are 50 minutes, and we meet as often as feels helpful.

We serve Cheyenne in person and all of Wyoming via telehealth. Most insurance accepted. You don't have to carry this alone.

Our counselors draw on a range of approaches — including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), DBT, EMDR, and mindfulness-based techniques — tailored to you, not a template. We bill all major insurance plans including BCBS, Optum (UHC/UMR), Cigna, Aetna, Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, and Victim Services. Self-pay is $100/session, and reduced-rate options are available.