You are functioning, but nothing feels the same.
Grief can sit underneath ordinary responsibilities, making concentration, sleep, motivation, and connection feel harder than before.
Grief Counseling
Grief counseling in Ankeny.
A compassionate place to make room for loss, change, and the feelings that do not follow a tidy timeline.
When Support Can Help
When loss changes more than one part of life.
Grief can follow the death of someone important, but it can also come with a relationship ending, a diagnosis, a move, a changed role, a family rupture, or the loss of a future you expected. There is no right pace or single way to carry it.
The feelings keep changing shape.
Sadness may come alongside anger, relief, guilt, numbness, anxiety, or loneliness. Mixed feelings do not mean you are grieving incorrectly.
You need a place where you do not have to protect everyone else.
Sometimes friends and family are grieving too, or they want you to feel better quickly. Counseling creates room to speak honestly about what has changed.
How Counseling Can Help
Support that makes space for your own experience of loss.
Grief counseling does not ask you to get over a loss on a schedule. It is a place to talk about the person, relationship, role, or future that mattered to you, and to understand how the loss is affecting your daily life now.
Dar offers steady, trauma-informed support for people who are navigating grief, major life changes, and the emotional work of adjusting to a new reality. Sessions can make room for memories, difficult feelings, practical stress, family dynamics, questions of identity, and the ways loss can change relationships.
The goal is not to erase what mattered. It is to help you carry it with more support, reconnect with the parts of life that still need you, and find a path through this season that feels honest and workable.
Counseling can support
- Loss of a loved one
- Relationship endings
- Changes in health or ability
- Family changes
- Major life transitions
- Stress, anxiety, or low mood after loss
A Clear Starting Point
You do not have to explain your grief perfectly to begin.
If loss or change has been making daily life harder, you can request an appointment and share what support you are looking for. The first conversation can help you decide whether grief counseling at Wellness Works is a fit.
Ankeny office
702 SW 4th Street, Suite 103
Ankeny, IA 50023
Thoughtful fit
Appointments begin with a conversation about the support you are looking for.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to have recently lost someone to seek grief counseling?
No. Grief can continue long after a loss, return at different times, or be connected to a major life change rather than a death. Counseling can be useful whenever loss is affecting your life and you want support.
What if I feel numb, angry, relieved, or guilty as well as sad?
Grief can bring many different feelings, sometimes at the same time. Counseling is a place to talk about your actual experience without needing to judge it or make it look a certain way.
Can grief counseling help after a relationship or life change?
Yes. Counseling can support people through relationship endings, changes in health, family changes, moves, role changes, and other losses that reshape daily life.
What happens in a grief counseling session?
Sessions are shaped around what you need to talk through. That may include memories, emotions, practical stress, relationship changes, routines, coping, and ways to find support while you are grieving.
What should I do in a mental health crisis?
Counseling appointments are not emergency care. Call or text 988 for immediate mental health crisis support. If there is immediate danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.
Request Support
Ask whether counseling may be a fit.
Share what has been difficult and how the practice can reach you. For urgent mental health needs, call or text 988 instead of waiting for a reply.
Start Here
Ready to ask about counseling?
Request an appointment online, call the practice, or send a message. For a mental health crisis, call or text 988.
Appointment
Request Appointment
Phone(515) 446-8490
Emailwellnessworks47@gmail.com
Office
702 SW 4th Street, Suite 103
Ankeny, IA 50023