Your Grief, Navigated.
At Blackwater Woods Center for Grief Therapy, we see grief as a winding forest path—unfamiliar, unpredictable, and often disorienting. Even when expected, loss can leave you feeling unmoored, but you don’t have to navigate it alone.
We provide empathic support to help you move through grief at your own pace, using self-compassion and personal values as your guide.
Whether you're coping with a loss, a major life transition, or the strain of shifting relationships, we offer evidence-based techniques and personalized care to meet your unique needs.
You're not alone. Support is here.
SERVICES
Blackwater Woods Center for Grief Therapy offers grief therapy, EMDR, and seasonal walk-and-talk therapy in Mariemont, Ohio - serving the greater Cincinnati area. Virtual sessions are available for those who are physically in the state of Ohio at the time of session.
Our approach is:
Steady and relational
Unhurried
Grounded in clinical training
With deep respect for grief as a shared human experience
Specialized Grief Therapy
Grief alters the landscape of a life. At Blackwater Woods Center for Grief Therapy, we offer specialized, trauma-informed grief therapy in Cincinnati, serving Mariemont and surrounding communities including Hyde Park, Oakley, Madeira, and Anderson Township.
Grief may follow death, sudden or traumatic loss, medical diagnosis, infertility, divorce, estrangement, or other profound life transitions. However it arrives, it deserves steady, compassionate care — not hurried solutions.
We support clients navigating:
Complicated or prolonged grief
Sudden or traumatic death
Anticipatory grief and caregiver strain
Identity changes after loss
Trauma layered within grief
Meaning-making after significant life transitions
If you are searching for grief therapy near Cincinnati, and want someone to hold space for your experience while at your pace, we are here to help.
EMDR Therapy for Trauma & Loss
Some grief carries shock. Some memories remain sharp and intrusive. Some beliefs surrounding your experience feel like they just won’t come unstuck.
We offer EMDR therapy to help process traumatic experiences and distressing memories connected to loss. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a research-supported approach that allows the nervous system to integrate what feels stuck.
EMDR may support:
Traumatic or sudden death
Medical trauma
Persistent anxiety tied to past events
Grief complicated by trauma
EMDR therapy can be offered in-person and virtually.
Walk-and-Talk Therapy
Grief can be as much of a physical experience as it is emotional.
Grief is often as physical as it is emotional.
Walk-and-talk therapy weaves movement and nature into the therapeutic process, with sessions held in thoughtfully selected green spaces near Mariemont as a grounded alternative to the office setting.
This approach may be especially supportive for clients seeking:
Movement during sessions to support their natural processing style
Mindfulness in motion, fostering presence, focus, and a greater sense of agency
The healing presence of nature, where fresh air and open space can gently regulate the nervous system and create a steady environment for processing grief
Contact BWCGT
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“IN BLACKWATER WOODS”
Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars
of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,
the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders
of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is
nameless now.
Every year
everything
I have ever learned
in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side
is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world
You must be able
to do three things:
To love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your whole life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
Mary Oliver, American Primitive