Compassionate, evidence-based grief counseling for individuals, teens, and children navigating loss, trauma, and life transitions — in person and via teletherapy throughout Louisiana.
Grief is one of the most profound human experiences. Our licensed grief therapists in New Orleans understand that loss — whether the death of a person you loved, the rupture of a central relationship, the end of a marriage, or a sudden change in your circumstances — can leave you feeling disoriented, exhausted, and unsure of how to move forward. Our grief counseling services at our Canal Street location in New Orleans are designed to meet you exactly where you are, offering a warm and professionally guided supportive space where healing can genuinely begin.
We serve individuals and children throughout New Orleans and across Louisiana. Our practice is currently accepting new clients. Whether you are in the acute early stage of loss or wrestling with grief that has quietly shaped your inner lives for years without being named, our grief therapists are here to help.
What makes our grief counseling practice in New Orleans distinctive is our integrated model of care. Grief rarely exists in isolation: it commonly overlaps with trauma, anxiety, PTSD, and other clinical disorders that require coordinated, expert treatment. Our practice brings licensed psychologists, a licensed clinical social worker, and a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner together within a single setting — so your grief therapy and, when needed, your psychiatric care can be coordinated with clinical care and intention rather than left scattered across disconnected providers.
If you’re ready to begin, or simply want to learn more about grief counseling, we encourage you to reach out. Our grief therapists are here — and so is the possibility of feeling like yourself again.
Loss and Grief Take Many Forms
Our grief therapy practice in New Orleans provides counseling for a wide range of loss experiences, life transitions, and grief-related disorders. Many people experience grief not only following a death, but in response to any significant loss — including those that our culture does not always recognize as worthy of care.
Our grief therapy team in New Orleans works with individuals and families who are navigating bereavement following the passing of a loved one. Our grief counseling services extend well beyond bereavement, however. Major life transitions — including retirement, career disruption, significant health diagnoses, and the end of a marriage — can generate feelings of grief that are every bit as real and deserving of specialized care as those that follow a death.
We also work with individuals and families whose grief is entangled with trauma. When loss is sudden or traumatizing — or when children have been exposed to frightening circumstances — grief and trauma can compound each other in ways that produce clinical disorders like PTSD or prolonged grief disorder. These presentations require skilled, specialized clinical attention that our center is uniquely positioned to offer. Our team’s collective clinical expertise — spanning psychology, psychiatry, and licensed therapeutic practice — means we can address grief and its complications together — not as separate problems, but as the interconnected challenges they almost always are.
Our practice creates a supportive space where every person — whether openly struggling or quietly carrying grief alone — can begin to cope with what they’ve experienced and build a path toward greater wholeness in their lives. People struggling with loss deserve skilled, compassionate care — not simply the passage of time.
Loss, trauma, and grief rarely travel alone. We are built to treat all of it — with coordinated care and genuine compassion.
Evidence-Based Grief Therapy Grounded in Compassion
Effective grief counseling is never one-size-fits-all. Our grief therapists in New Orleans draw on a range of evidence-based and humanistic therapy modalities, carefully matching each approach to the individual person, their history, and the nature of their loss. Our work is collaborative — your feelings, your readiness, and your pace in moving through loss shape how we engage with you in every session.
Person-Centered Therapy
Person centered therapy forms the relational foundation of our grief counseling practice. It creates a non-judgmental, empathic supportive space where every person feels genuinely seen, heard, and respected — the essential conditions for any meaningful grief counseling to occur.
Cognitive Processing Therapy
Cognitive processing therapy helps individuals identify and work through the distorted beliefs that maintain grief-related distress, especially following traumatic bereavement. It is among the most evidence-based therapy strategies for grief and trauma-related disorders.
Compassion Focused Therapy
Compassion focused therapy cultivates self-kindness in those who carry grief alongside guilt or shame. This approach is especially valuable when painful feelings of self-blame have become intertwined with the grieving process, making it difficult to move forward.
Psychodynamic Therapy
By exploring the emotional history of a significant relationship and the deeper patterns grief can activate, psychodynamic therapy creates the insight needed to achieve meaningful, lasting change — in grief counseling and beyond.
Our grief counseling practice also incorporates expressive and creative modalities — in therapy sessions with children and adolescents. For young people who find it challenging to communicate grief through conversation alone, art therapy and other expressive approaches can create new pathways into difficult feelings. Within the carefully maintained supportive space of our center, children often find that art-based expression allows them to process loss in ways that verbal exchange alone does not make possible.
Across all treatment approaches, we believe that finding a good fit between you and your grief therapist is foundational to positive outcomes. Research in psychology consistently confirms that the quality of the therapeutic relationship accounts for a substantial portion of what those we serve experience as effective therapy. Our center takes this seriously from the very first session.
Our Practice Serves Every Stage of Life
Our practice offers bereavement and grief counseling across the full lifespan to individuals and families throughout New Orleans and Louisiana. Our practitioners’ specialized backgrounds — in psychology, psychiatry, and licensed social worker therapy — mean we can address a broad range of clinical needs within one coordinated practice. Below is a summary of how our grief counseling approach adapts to serve individuals across different life stages and circumstances.
Individual Adults
People navigating the loss of someone beloved, a difficult separation, challenging life transitions, or job loss often find that grief counseling creates the supportive space they need to process what they've been through and move forward. Many who come to our grief therapy practice in New Orleans are struggling with grief that has been living beneath other symptoms — persistent low mood, anxiety, stress, or fatigue — for years without being named. Our grief therapists help people reconnect with purpose, restore clarity in their lives, and develop effective treatment strategies for managing the emotional weight of loss.
Teens and Adolescents
Teens and adolescents experience grief with an intensity that is often difficult for the people around them to fully grasp. Our grief therapists offer therapy in a supportive space that honors the developmental complexity of young people's lives — helping them build tools to cope with grief and its associated feelings, manage stress, maintain their ability to thrive in school and community, and cultivate the emotional resilience that will serve them throughout their lives. We welcome teens for individual grief counseling and, where appropriate, family-based sessions.
Children
Children who have experienced loss — or who have witnessed frightening events in their lives — need age-appropriate, skilled support to grieve safely. Our grief therapists are trained to work with children using therapy approaches calibrated to their developmental stage. Many children who are struggling with grief benefit significantly from expressive modalities that give them ways to communicate painful feelings without relying solely on words. Our center creates a safe, consistent supportive space where children can explore loss at their own pace.
Families
When families lose someone they love, each person grieves differently — and those differences can generate distance and misunderstanding at precisely the moment when shared connection is most needed. Our grief counseling practice helps families in New Orleans navigate the challenges of collective loss, improve communication, and rebuild the bonds that sustain them. We work with families of all configurations, helping each family member find their own path through grief while remaining connected to the people they love most.
Grief Therapy and Psychiatric Services
What distinguishes The Terrebonne Group from many other grief counseling practices in New Orleans is our integrated model of care. Grief frequently co-occurs with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other clinical disorders — conditions that may benefit from both grief therapy and psychiatric evaluation to treat effectively. Our center includes Dr. Lisa Legeaux, DNP, PMHNP-BC, a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner who provides medication management for children, adolescents, and individuals of all ages.
This means that when grief counseling alone is not sufficient — for example, when prolonged grief disorder or severe depression is meaningfully impairing someone’s ability to function in daily life — individuals at our center can receive psychiatric evaluation without requiring a separate referral. Therapy and psychiatric services are coordinated with clinical care, so your entire course of treatment reflects the full picture of what you are experiencing.
Our practice also includes Dorian Rolston, LMSW, whose background in clinical social work brings community-centered expertise and practical guidance for the broader social and systemic challenges that often accompany significant loss and life transitions in New Orleans. The depth of clinical specialization within our team gives our practice the capacity to treat grief across its many dimensions simultaneously — emotional, relational, cognitive, and, where warranted, pharmacological.
Taking the First Step Toward Grief Therapy
We know that reaching out for grief counseling takes courage — above all when you are already depleted by loss. Our team makes the process as clear and gentle as possible. When you contact us, a member of our clinical staff will help assess your needs and identify the grief therapist who is the right fit for you, your child, or your family.
Initial counseling sessions are an opportunity for you and your therapist to get acquainted, establish shared goals, and build the working relationship that makes effective grief therapy possible. We want every person who reaches out to us to feel genuinely understood and to leave their first session with a growing sense that they have found the support they’ve been looking for.
Our grief counseling services are offered in person at our New Orleans location on Canal Street and via teletherapy throughout Louisiana — providing access to our grief therapy services at a pace and in a format that works for you. We are currently welcoming new clients, and we encourage you to reach out. Healing is achievable — and the lives you want to return to are worth the treatment and care that grief therapy provides. The lives our clients reclaim through this work are testament to what becomes possible when struggling people find the right support.
Grief Therapy and Psychiatric Services
What distinguishes The Terrebonne Group from many other grief counseling practices in New Orleans is our integrated model of care. Grief frequently co-occurs with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other clinical disorders — conditions that may benefit from both grief therapy and psychiatric evaluation to treat effectively. Our center includes Dr. Lisa Legeaux, DNP, PMHNP-BC, a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner who provides medication management for children, adolescents, and individuals of all ages.
This means that when grief counseling alone is not sufficient — for example, when prolonged grief disorder or severe depression is meaningfully impairing someone’s ability to function in daily life — individuals at our center can receive psychiatric evaluation without requiring a separate referral. Therapy and psychiatric services are coordinated with clinical care, so your entire course of treatment reflects the full picture of what you are experiencing.
Our practice also includes Dorian Rolston, LMSW, whose background in clinical social work brings community-centered expertise and practical guidance for the broader social and systemic challenges that often accompany significant loss and life transitions in New Orleans. The depth of clinical specialization within our team gives our practice the capacity to treat grief across its many dimensions simultaneously — emotional, relational, cognitive, and, where warranted, pharmacological.
Taking the First Step Toward Grief Therapy
We know that reaching out for grief counseling takes courage — above all when you are already depleted by loss. Our team makes the process as clear and gentle as possible. When you contact us, a member of our clinical staff will help assess your needs and identify the grief therapist who is the right fit for you, your child, or your family.
Initial counseling sessions are an opportunity for you and your therapist to get acquainted, establish shared goals, and build the working relationship that makes effective grief therapy possible. We want every person who reaches out to us to feel genuinely understood and to leave their first session with a growing sense that they have found the support they’ve been looking for.
Our grief counseling services are offered in person at our New Orleans location on Canal Street and via teletherapy throughout Louisiana — providing access to our grief therapy services at a pace and in a format that works for you. We are currently welcoming new clients, and we encourage you to reach out. Healing is achievable — and the lives you want to return to are worth the treatment and care that grief therapy provides. The lives our clients reclaim through this work are testament to what becomes possible when struggling people find the right support.
A Licensed, Credentialed Practice Built on Decades of Experience
The Terrebonne Group was founded by Dr. Leigh Anne Terrebonne, a licensed psychologist with over 25 years of clinical experience. She holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Auburn University and completed post-doctoral training at the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. She also serves as Adjunct Clinical Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at LSU Health Sciences Center — an academic engagement that continues to inform her expertise in grief, trauma, and complex psychological presentations.
Our team includes Dr. Monica Stevens, Ph.D., who brings extensive research and clinical experience to individual grief therapy and psychological assessment, and Dorian Rolston, LMSW, whose training deepens our capacity to offer grief counseling that is both psychologically sophisticated and socially grounded. Every clinician holds an active Louisiana license and has completed rigorous graduate and post-graduate clinical preparation. Together, our practitioners have helped individuals, children, and families across New Orleans navigate grief, loss, and significant life transitions.
We know that people struggling with grief are often also struggling with stress, depression, job displacement, or the weight of life transitions that have arrived all at once. Many are traumatized by the circumstances of their loss, and some feel genuinely unable to move through their daily lives. These are not signs of weakness — they are accepted realities of the human experience of grief. The Terrebonne Group was built on a foundation of clinical rigor, compassionate care, and a genuine commitment to helping the individuals and families of New Orleans create lives that feel meaningful, connected, and whole again.
Our practice serves people in person at 4209 Canal Street in Mid-City New Orleans, and via teletherapy throughout Louisiana. When you are ready to take the first step, we’re here to help you.
Dr. Leigh Anne Terrebonne
Dr. Terrebonne has over 25 years of experience providing grief therapy and individual psychotherapy for adults navigating loss, trauma, life transitions, depression, and the lasting weight of unresolved grief.
Dr. Monica Stevens
Dr. Lisa Legeaux
Dr. Legeaux brings compassionate, board-certified psychiatric care to individuals whose grief, trauma, or mood disorders may benefit from medication management alongside therapy — serving children, adolescents, and adults.
Dr. Leigh Anne Terrebonne
Dr. Terrebonne has over 25 years of experience providing grief therapy and individual psychotherapy for adults navigating loss, trauma, life transitions, depression, and the lasting weight of unresolved grief.
Dr. Monica Stevens
Dr. Lisa Legeaux
Dr. Legeaux brings compassionate, board-certified psychiatric care to individuals whose grief, trauma, or mood disorders may benefit from medication management alongside therapy — serving children, adolescents, and adults.
Ready to Begin?
Our grief counseling practice in New Orleans is welcoming new clients. In-person and teletherapy available throughout Louisiana.
Call us at (504) 864-0800 or send us your request through the form.
If you are in immediate distress, please call or text 988 (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline) or text HOME to 741741 (Crisis Text Line).
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Ready to Begin?
Our grief counseling practice in New Orleans is welcoming new clients. In-person and teletherapy available throughout Louisiana.
Call us at (504) 864-0800 or send us your request through the form.
If you are in immediate distress, please call or text 988 (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline) or text HOME to 741741 (Crisis Text Line).