Meet Andrea, LCSW
Denver Grief Therapist
Andrea holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Denver, with a graduate certificate in Trauma, Response, and Recovery. A foundation she has continued to build on throughout her career.
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Colorado.
Before opening A Dwelling Place Counseling, Andrea spent fourteen years working in Hospice and Palliative Care across the Denver Metro area, providing individual and family counseling, facilitating grief support groups, and offering clinical social work services to patients and families at some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives. That experience gave her a depth of understanding around grief, death, and bereavement that no classroom alone can teach.
She has been in private practice as a grief counselor for the past nine years, bringing that same attentiveness and clinical expertise to individuals navigating loss on their own terms and timeline.
She is also a trained EMDR therapist, having completed her training through the Maiberger Institute in Denver — one of the most respected EMDR training programs in the country.
Andrea has called Denver, Colorado home for nearly thirty years. Her favorite pastimes are being active outdoors, time with friends/family, cooking, traveling, and reading. Andrea's faith is a meaningful part of her life, and it shapes the care and presence she brings to her work. She welcomes clients of every faith background and will always meet you where you are.
A DWELLING PLACE COUNSELING MISSION
To be present beside those in darkness, listening to them and helping them take the next step forward.
She works with people who are:
Grieving the death of a spouse, parent, child, sibling, pet, or close friend. Including sudden, traumatic, or anticipated loss.
Supporting a loved one through a terminal illness and carrying their own grief alongside that role.
Processing loss after a hospice or palliative care experience, including grief that surfaces weeks, months, or years after the death.
Living with anticipatory grief: the weight of a loss that hasn’t happened yet.
Navigating life transitions that carry their own kind of grief: divorce, estrangement, identity shifts, significant health changes.
Experiencing grief that feels complicated, stuck, or out of proportion — and wondering if something is wrong with them (nothing is).
Who Andrea Works With
You didn’t expect to be here.
Grief has a way of arriving without warning and leaving you unsure of where to place your next step. You don’t need someone who will rush your process or hand you a checklist. You need someone who will sit with you in the dark, listen without an agenda, and help you find the next three feet of the road.
That’s the work Andrea does.
Is Grief Counseling right for me?
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Grief doesn’t have a qualifying threshold. If you are carrying the weight of a loss- whether it happened last week or ten years ago, whether others understood it or not- and it’s affecting your life, your relationships, or your ability to feel like yourself, grief therapy can help. Andrea’s approach meets you where you are.
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No. While much of Andrea’s work centers on death-related grief- particularly losses connected to illness, hospice, and end-of-life - she also works with people navigating other significant losses, including life transitions, estrangement, and health-related grief. If you’re not sure whether your experience is a fit, reach out. A brief conversation is the best way to find out.
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Andrea offers online virtual sessions only, available to clients anywhere in Colorado. This makes it easier to access specialized grief therapy. Whether you’re in Denver proper, the surrounding metro area, or anywhere else in the state.
Not sure where to start?
Grief asks a lot of us. It can feel isolating, exhausting, and — without the right support — endless. Andrea’s work is built on a simple belief: you shouldn’t have to navigate it without someone beside you.