Leigh-Ann Larson, LMHC, Intuitive & Grief Educator

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Leigh-Ann Larson, LMHC, Intuitive & Grief Educator

Grief Educator, Trauma Therapist & CEO building trauma-informed helping businesses. Grief is not broken—and neither are you. We are truly supernatural.

I gently support healing after loss and help leaders create compassionate, human-centered spaces of care. I am passionate about helping people in grief make new meaning in their lives so that they can not only survive, but thrive with a greater understanding of their own humanity and what it means to be an eternal energetic being, with a supernatural ability to give and receive love from this world into the next.

05/03/2026

If you’re a therapist working with addiction, there’s something you probably don’t feel you can say out loud very often:

This work can be heavy.

Not just in the clinical sense.
But in the deeply human, nervous-system level way.

You sit with clients navigating relapse.
You hold space for families living in chronic fear.
You witness the same cycles play out — sometimes over and over again.

And in between sessions, you carry pieces of those stories with you.

The moments that linger.
The clients you worry about.
The families who ask questions you can’t fully answer.

Because there’s a truth in this work that’s hard to escape:

You can show up fully.
You can care deeply.
You can do everything “right” clinically…

…and you still cannot control the outcome.

That reality creates a very specific kind of emotional load — one that often goes unprocessed.

In this field, we talk a lot about burnout and secondary trauma.
But we don’t always talk about the grief that clinicians carry.

The grief of witnessing.
The grief of holding hope when outcomes are uncertain.
The grief of knowing your role has limits.

And like many of your clients… you may not have been given the tools to fully process that.

That’s exactly why I’m co-hosting a free virtual workshop through Rising Up:

Supporting Someone with Addiction: Tools for Families & Professionals
🗓 May 14 | 1–2pm ET | Online

This space is designed for both loved ones and the professionals who support them.

We’ll be focusing on practical, body-based tools — including EFT tapping, EMDR-informed techniques, and mindfulness — to help you:

• Regulate your nervous system between and during sessions
• Move through the emotional residue that builds over time
• Stay present with clients without absorbing their overwhelm
• Sustain your work without becoming emotionally depleted

Because being “trained” doesn’t mean you’re immune to the impact.

And sustainable care starts with how you care for yourself.

You can save your spot here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988196998744?aff=oddtdtcreator

If you’re doing this work, this space is for you too.

Learn tools to manage burnout, grief & emotional stress when supporting someone struggling with addiction (MA residents & clinicians)

04/30/2026

One of the hardest parts of loving someone with addiction…
is how invisible your experience can feel.

You might be the one answering late-night calls.
The one holding it together at family gatherings.
The one constantly adjusting, accommodating, hoping.

And yet… people don’t always see your pain.

Because the focus is (understandably) on the person struggling.

But what often gets missed is this:

There is a real, ongoing grief in loving someone who is battling addiction.

Not just grief over what’s happened…
but grief over what’s been lost, what’s uncertain, and what may still come.

This is where disenfranchised grief shows up again.

Grief that doesn’t get acknowledged in the same way.
Grief that doesn’t always have a clear “event” or endpoint.
Grief that you’re expected to carry quietly while still showing up for everyone else.

And over time, that can turn into:

Emotional exhaustion.
Burnout.
Resentment.
Numbness.

Not because you don’t care —
but because you’ve been carrying too much, for too long, without support.

Most people are told to “set boundaries” or “take care of themselves.”

But very few are actually shown how to move through the emotional weight they’re holding.

That’s exactly why I’m co-hosting this free virtual workshop through Rising Up:

Supporting Someone with Addiction: Tools for Families & Professionals
🗓 May 14 | 1–2pm ET | Online

This is a space to focus on you — not just the person you’re supporting.

We’ll be sharing practical, body-based tools (like EFT tapping, EMDR-informed techniques, and mindfulness) to help you:

• Process grief that doesn’t always have a name
• Reduce emotional overwhelm in real time
• Stay connected without becoming depleted
• Navigate support without losing your sense of self

Because your experience matters too.

And you deserve more than just “getting through it.”

You can register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988196998744?aff=oddtdtcreator

If you’ve been carrying this quietly, this space was created with you in mind.

Learn tools to manage burnout, grief & emotional stress when supporting someone struggling with addiction (MA residents & clinicians)

04/29/2026

There’s a very specific kind of fear that comes with loving someone who is struggling with addiction.

It’s not loud.
It’s not always visible.

But it’s there… all the time.

It’s the fear that lives in your body when your phone rings late at night.
It’s the way your mind jumps to worst-case scenarios before you even realize you’re doing it.
It’s the quiet thought you don’t always say out loud:

“How much longer can this go on?”

This is what anticipatory grief can look like.

Grieving something that hasn’t happened yet…
while also trying to stay hopeful that it never will.

It’s exhausting to live in that in-between space —
between love and helplessness,
between hope and dread.

And most people around you don’t fully see it.

They might see you “holding it together.”
Showing up. Functioning. Being strong.

But inside, your nervous system is constantly bracing.

Over time, that kind of chronic emotional stress doesn’t just go away.
It builds. It settles into your body. It changes how you move through your life.

And yet… very few people are ever given tools to actually process this.

That’s why I’m co-hosting a free virtual workshop through Rising Up:

Supporting Someone with Addiction: Tools for Families & Professionals
🗓 May 14 | 1–2pm ET | Online

This space is for the people who are carrying this kind of weight.

We’ll walk through practical, body-based approaches — including EFT tapping, EMDR-informed techniques, and mindfulness — to help you:

• Calm your nervous system in moments of fear or overwhelm
• Process the emotional intensity instead of just pushing through it
• Stay present without becoming consumed by what you can’t control
• Support someone you love without losing yourself in the process

Because constantly living in “what if” takes a toll.
And you don’t have to keep navigating that alone.

You can save your spot here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988196998744?aff=oddtdtcreator

If this speaks to you, you’re exactly who this was created for.

Learn tools to manage burnout, grief & emotional stress when supporting someone struggling with addiction (MA residents & clinicians)

04/27/2026

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned in grief work is this:

Insight is important… but it’s often not enough.

You can understand your grief, your trauma, your patterns—and still feel stuck in your body.

In this recent workshop, Kolby Andrade and I walked through a few simple, experiential tools that help people begin to actually shift what they’re carrying, not just talk about it.

We explored grounding, tapping (EFT), and EMDR-informed practices that support nervous system regulation and emotional processing.

It’s simple work, but incredibly powerful over time.

If you’re navigating your own grief, or supporting others in it, I hope this offers something useful.

Watch the replay:

Stuck in Grief? Body-Based Tools to Process Emotional Pain | Workshop Replay

04/21/2026

We’re just a couple of days away from this 💛

If you’ve been feeling stuck in your grief, or just curious about a different way to approach emotional pain, I’d really love for you to join.

This isn’t about doing more.

It’s about doing something different.

🗓 Thursday, April 23
⏰ 12 PM EST