Grief & Trauma Therapy in Bellingham | Online Across WA
Where Loss Awakens Sacred Transformation
Maybe they died by suicide or overdose. Maybe they're still alive but unreachable—lost to addiction, mental illness, or estrangement.
You do everything you can to not think about it. Not because you’re a coward, but because it’s impossibly complicated. You’re caught between anxiety, resentment, loyalty, and grief. No one’s giving you permission to fall apart, so you grind through each day because you know no other way.
You're here because:
People said things would get better with time. But they haven’t. If anything, time only seems to make you feel more numb and alone.
You've pulled away from your go-to people. You avoid texts and calls, make excuses not to meet up. Connection feels like too much effort.
Work no longer anchors your attention. You feel like an imposter, bracing for the moment someone questions your authority.
You can’t slow down without panicking. Your mind races before bed. You’re struggling with brain fog, fatigue, and relentless stress.
Traumatic Loss
You've lost someone who may or may not still be alive.
You know something needs to change.
You grew up in chaos and built a life of structure.
You learned early how to organize, perform, and lead. Yet inside, you feel unmoored. Numb one moment, consumed by rage the next. There’s a widening gap between who you know yourself to be and the person you want to become.
You found purpose and identity in a high-stakes career
where vision and impact matter. Yet hidden within are patterns of procrastination, conflict avoidance, and self-doubt. You replay conversations, frustrated by how you shut down. You crave intimacy but pull away when it gets close.
You need a therapist who can keep up with your mind
and meet you at your depth. Someone who will help you integrate your loss and rediscover who you are beneath the roles you've been playing—a version of yourself not defined by performance, survival, or old conditioning.
Here’s the Truth:
Your grief is natural. Denial is societal.
Loss is layered, and grief has a way of breaking us open. In a culture that rarely gives you permission to slow down or feel, it’s no wonder your grief feels hard to name, validate, or express.
The ambiguity of loss can leave you searching for clarity and meaning, as shame and self-doubt suffocate your ability to ask for help. Intra offers a compassionate container to soften, come undone, and make room for all the mess that comes with being human.
The Shadow of Unresolved Loss
There is no single “right” way to grieve. When grief is blocked or avoided, though, life can lose its shape. Days blur together, simple tasks feel overwhelming, and you may feel stuck in a surreal dream you can’t snap out of.
Traumatic Loss
Losing someone you love in a traumatic or stigmatized way, such as suicide or overdose, can leave you questioning reality itself. Alongside grief, you may carry shame, anger, or self-blame. This can fuel uncertainty about who you are and what your future holds.
Ambiguous Loss
Sometimes the loss isn’t final, but ongoing—loving someone caught in addiction, estrangement, or chronic mental illness. These losses are often unseen by others, leaving you to carry invisible grief alone. Despite the complexity, peace and acceptance are possible with the right support.
From Avoidance to Freedom
Complex grief and layered loss exist in the space between acceptance and denial. Hiding your suffering by shrinking, overachieving, performing, and keeping your head down is exhausting and isolating. Many symptoms and lingering bad moods are the psyche’s way of signaling that something important has been avoided for too long.
Depth work teaches us how to lift our existing tension instead of making premature decisions that lead to passivity, grandiosity, loneliness, and resentment. Tapping into healthy assertiveness and self-esteem will allow you to cultivate curiosity toward inner resistances and navigate life’s challenges with greater consciousness and skill.
Inner clarity begins here
Ketamine and somatic therapy for lasting relief
Intra is designed for midlife high-impact professionals who've relied on themselves for too long—
and are ready to:
→ Break free from longstanding patterns of self-abandonment
→ Process complex or unresolved grief
→ Build healthy relationships
→ Restore emotional safety and self-trust
→ Regulate overwhelm and reduce reactivity
→ Design a life rooted in meaning, courage, and creative expression
Our Services
embodying growth, embracing wholeness
Meet Your Therapist
Brianna Clement
Releasing limiting beliefs and old attitudes allows us to approach life more consciously. As a therapist, I witness how unresolved grief compounds and amplifies existing unhelpful patterns such as isolating, distracting, and numbing. Intra is designed to help break these patterns by slowing down, listening to, and honoring what lies within.
The Process
Fill out a quick intake form.
Ask any questions you might have.
Begin your journey of transformation.