Helping Children Heal: Grief Counseling for Children and Families

Gentle Support for Little Hearts Navigating Big Losses

At The Counseling Corner, we understand that grieving children need more than time—they need tools, support, and safe relationships to help them process, express, and heal from the loss of a loved one. When a family member dies, children experience grief differently than adults. Their pain is real, but it often shows up in quiet questions, changes in behavior, or sudden emotional outbursts that may confuse even the most attentive caregiver.

Whether your child has lost a parent, sibling, grandparent, or close friend, our licensed child therapists offer compassionate, specialized support to help children and families move through grief with understanding, strength, and connection.

💔 How Children Experience Grief

Children don’t just process death differently—they feel it through a different lens.

  • Young children may believe death is temporary or reversible, much like in cartoons or fairy tales.

  • School-aged children begin to understand the permanence of death, but often feel it's something that happens to “others.”

  • Teens may understand the finality of death intellectually, but still wrestle with deep emotions they can’t always express.

A five-year-old may innocently ask when Grandma is coming back. A ten-year-old might avoid talking about their parent who passed. A teenager may lash out in anger or silently isolate themselves in grief.

No matter the age, grief can be overwhelming—especially when the adults in a child’s life are also grieving. That’s where we come in.

🌱 Signs Your Child May Need Professional Grief Counseling

While every child processes grief uniquely, the following signs may indicate your child is struggling to cope:

  • Ongoing sadness or depression

  • Sleep disturbances or fear of being alone

  • Loss of interest in daily activities

  • Regression (baby talk, thumb-sucking, excessive clinginess)

  • Withdrawal from friends or school

  • Anger, irritability, or aggressive behavior

  • Expressions of guilt or magical thinking (“I caused this”)

  • Statements like “I want to be with them” or imitating the deceased

These are not just phases. They’re cries for support, and early intervention can make all the difference.

🛠️ How The Counseling Corner Can Help

At The Counseling Corner, our child therapists are trained in grief-informed, trauma-sensitive approaches to help children process loss in healthy, age-appropriate ways. Our counseling services provide:

Safe space for expression – through talk, play therapy, art, or storytelling
Evidence-based treatment – including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), and grief-specific interventions
Family sessions – to strengthen communication, healing, and connection
Supportive rituals – helping children find meaningful ways to honor and remember their loved ones
Healing from guilt – addressing misconceptions and magical thinking with compassion

We also work closely with parents and caregivers to help them support their child’s healing while processing their own grief. You don’t have to walk this road alone.

🕯️ A Hopeful Path Forward

Grief may come in waves, but healing happens in connection.
At The Counseling Corner, we believe every child deserves a safe harbor in the storm—a place where emotions are honored, questions are welcomed, and pain is met with presence and peace.

Even after a loss, it’s possible for children to rebuild trust, rediscover joy, and carry the memory of their loved one in healthy and life-affirming ways. Healing doesn’t mean forgetting—it means learning to live again, fully and freely.

📞 Take the First Step Today

If your child is struggling with grief, help is here—and healing is possible.

Call us today at 📱407-843-4968 to schedule a confidential appointment with one of our licensed child therapists.
You can also visit us at www.CounselingCorner.net to learn more about our grief counseling services for children and families.

Let’s walk this journey together—because no child should have to grieve alone.