If I Let Myself Cry Will I Ever Be Able to Stop?

No, feeling better does not mean forgetting. Ruth Weinberg, a Denver grief therapist, works from the belief that healing means learning to carry your grief differently, not let go of it. Moving forward does not mean you don’t care. The goal of grief therapy is to support you during times of loss and build a new relationship with grief, one that honors both the love and the pain.

Ruth Weinberg works with grief in all its forms: the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, the loss of a version of yourself, or a life you expected to have. She also specializes in complicated grief and traumatic grief, including losing someone who also hurt you, loss that others don't acknowledge or validate and deaths that were violent, sudden or due to suicide. Her Denver practice serves clients in person and throughout Colorado and South Carolina via telehealth.

No. Ruth Weinberg's approach to grief counseling has no prescribed timeline and no right way. Her role is to be someone who makes space for anything you bring into the room: the anger, the guilt, the complicated feelings, the pain, the moments that don't look like grief is 'supposed' to look. Ruth Weinberg will hold space for all of it and encourage you to take the time that it takes.

Yes, and it almost always takes longer than people expect.

Grief from the end of a significant relationship is real, even when it doesn't get treated that way. Culturally we push people to move on quickly and “get back out there” in the dating scene. However, losing a relationship can mean losing a whole part of your future, like the life you were building together or even your sense of who you are.

Recovery is about getting to a place where the loss no longer runs your life and where you can think about what happened without being completely devastated. You start figuring out what you want now rather than what you're missing.

Often this work uncovers patterns around self-worth and connection that go beyond the specific relationship. That's usually where the real healing happens.

Ruth Weinberg works with people experiencing heartbreak and relationship grief in Denver and via telehealth in South Carolina.

Yes, and these are among the most complex and intense kinds of grief there are.

The death of a child or loss to suicide carry layers that most people in your life won't know how to hold. There's grief, but there's also possibly guilt, anger, confusion, and a specific kind of isolation. "I'm so sorry" only goes so far. What you need is somewhere to bring the full weight of it, including the parts that are messy or don't fit into what grief is supposed to look like.

Traumatic loss, such as when a death is sudden or violent, also affects the nervous system in ways that talking alone can't always reach. Methods like IFS and EMDR alongside more traditional approaches help to process trauma at a body level, not just a cognitive one.

This work is not about rushing through grief or arriving somewhere called "over it." It's about learning to carry the loss differently and not having to carry it alone.

Ruth Weinberg uses IFS and EMDR alongside more traditional approaches to process grief and trauma for clients in Colorado and South Carolina via telehealth.