Calabasas Counseling and Grief Recovery Center

10/22/2025

As we celebrate Día de los Mu***os, we invite you to remember, honor, and celebrate the lives of those who’ve touched your heart. Bring a photo or story to add to our community altar in Calabasas, or share your tribute online on our website. Let’s turn remembrance into connection 💐 ***os

10/17/2025

✨ Día de los Mu***os (Day of the Dead) ✨ is a beautiful Mexican tradition where we honor and celebrate the lives of our loved ones who have passed. It’s a time of joy, remembrance, and connection as families welcome back the souls of their deceased relatives for a brief reunion. 🌸🎉 Through offerings of their favorite foods, drinks, and cherished memories, we keep their spirits alive in our hearts. ❤️💀🌺 This year, we will be having a special ofrenda at Calabasas Counseling, where we invite you to join us in honoring and remembering your loved ones.

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10/15/2025

Life can feel heavy sometimes — and it’s okay to ask for help. 💙 At Calabasas Counseling, we believe no one should have to carry life’s burdens alone. Whether you’re navigating grief, anxiety, trauma, or life transitions, our team is here to walk alongside you with compassion, understanding, and care.

You are not alone in your journey. Let’s take the first step together. Reach out to connect with one of our therapists today:
📧 Debi: debi@calabasascounseling.com
📧 Mark: mark@calabasascounseling.com
📧 Katie: katie@calabasascounseling.com
📧 Lydia: lydia@calabasascounseling.com
📧 Rose: rose@calabasascounseling.com
📧 Todd: todd@calabasascounseling.com

Because your mental health matters. 💙

07/25/2025

𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩
𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟐 𝐚𝐭 𝟔:𝟑𝟎 𝐏𝐌 | 𝐈𝐧-𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 | 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐬
8 bi-weekly sessions, $50 per session | Facilitated by Jennifer White, LMFT

If you’ve lost a loved one to su***de, you are not alone.

Join a supportive, compassionate group led by fellow survivor and licensed therapist, 𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞, 𝐋𝐌𝐅𝐓. Jennifer lost her mother, Joanie, to su***de in 2011—an experience that profoundly shaped her path to becoming a therapist specializing in traumatic loss. She brings both clinical expertise and heartfelt understanding to this unique group experience.

Over 8 sessions, group members will:
• Share their stories of loss in a safe and supportive space
• Connect with others navigating grief
• Explore the complexities of su***de loss
• Learn tools for coping and healing

This group is open to adult survivors of su***de loss seeking connection, understanding, and community. Space is limited to 10 members.

𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Calabasas Counseling and Grief Recovery Center
𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: Wednesday, June 12 at 6:30 PM
𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞: Bi-weekly (total of 8 sessions)

You do not have to walk this path alone.

To inquire or reserve a spot, please email jennifer@calabasascounseling.com

Learn more by visiting:
https://www.calabasascounseling.com/su***de-loss-survivors-group

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07/22/2025

🕯️If you’ve lost someone to su***de, you’re not alone.

A new in-person support group is forming in Calabasas, CA for survivors of su***de loss. A space to share, connect, and feel understood.

The group will begin once all spots are filled.
To learn more or reserve your place, contact jennifer@calabasascounseling.com 💛

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06/26/2025

Survivors of Su***de Loss Support Group – Calabasas
Have you—or someone you care about—lost a loved one to su***de?
Grief after su***de is uniquely painful and often misunderstood. You don’t have to carry it alone.

Calabasas Counseling & Grief Recovery is offering an in-person support group for adult su***de loss survivors.
📍 Held in Calabasas
💵 $50 per session and a $75 initial intake fee
🧠 Facilitated by Jennifer White, LMFT — a licensed therapist and fellow survivor

This group provides a compassionate space to connect, share, and find comfort alongside others who truly understand.

The group will begin once all spots are filled. Space is limited.

➡️ Learn more:
https://www.calabasascounseling.com/su***de-loss-survivors-group
📧 Or reach out directly: Jennifer@calabasascounseling.com
Please feel free to share with anyone who may be looking for support.

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06/17/2025

For this Musical Monday, Jennifer White wrote a short reflection inspired by the song “The Time for Flowers” by Emily Scott Robinson.

It’s a late post this week—but maybe that’s okay. Grief doesn’t follow a schedule, and neither does reflection.

These days, it feels almost impossible to be aware without also feeling grief.

There is so much pain. Every glance at the news brings fresh heartbreak or terror.

Lately, I’ve found myself returning to a song that reminds us: “There are days when despair will win, but the time for flowers will come again.”

This song asks: How do we tend to our own gardens while the world is on fire? And is there any point?

It reminds me that acts of resistance can take many forms. They might look like marching in the streets or standing in protest—but they can also look like raising empathetic children, or learning to regulate your own nervous system.

My personal experiences with loss have instilled in me a deep commitment to cultivating hope. I tend to it like a garden—trusting that the seeds planted today will grow roots strong enough to carry us through both peace and despair.

06/09/2025

🎵 Music Prompt for Grieving Children

Pick a Song for Your Person
"If we were going to play one song that reminds you of your person, or that you think they would have liked, what would it be?"

At our grief center, we’ve had kids and teens introduce us to their person—not just through words, but through music.

🎧 Sometimes it’s a song they used to sing in the car.
🎧 Sometimes it’s a song that feels like their person.
🎧 Sometimes it’s one they imagine their person dancing to.

Music can be a powerful way for children to express love, longing, memory, and identity—especially when talking is hard.

In session, we invite them to choose the song that tells part of their story.
💬 What song would your person be remembered by?

06/05/2025

Survivors of Su***de Loss Support Group

If you’ve lost someone to su***de, this group is a space to connect with others who understand. We’ll meet in person every other week for 8 sessions of gentle, grounded support.

💬 Led by fellow survivor + licensed therapist Jennifer White, LMFT
💵 $50/session
📍In-person in Calabasas, CA

https://www.calabasascounseling.com/su***de-loss-survivors-group

05/26/2025

🎵 Musical Monday: “I Drive Your Truck” – Lee Brice
On this Memorial Day, we honor the ways grief moves—through roads driven, songs played, and stories remembered.
The song “I Drive Your Truck” was inspired by a true story. U.S. Army Sgt. Jared Monti was killed in action in Afghanistan while trying to save a fellow soldier. His father, Paul Monti, told NPR that when he misses his son, he drives Jared’s truck—still dusty from military gear, still filled with traces of him.
That interview led to the creation of this song, now a deeply moving tribute to how grief is carried not just in memory, but in motion.
🎧 Lyric spotlight:
"I drive your truck / I roll every window down / And I burn up / Every back road in this town..."
On days like today, that truck becomes more than a vehicle. It’s a way of staying close. A way of remembering. A way of saying: I’m still here. I’m still holding you.
Who do you still carry with you?
🎶 Drop a song in the comments that helps you feel close.
Feel free to share a song, a name, a story below. This space is for remembering.

CNN's Jake Tapper reports the CMA's 2013 Song of the Year honors the story of a fallen soldier and his father.

05/19/2025

🎶 Musical Mondays 🎶
This week, we’re sitting with Dolly Parton’s ballad “Grass is Blue.”

Read the full reflection by Jennifer White: https://jenniferelainewhite.substack.com/p/grass-is-blue

05/09/2025

As adults, the loss of a parent is often seen as the most expected kind of grief.
It’s rationalized, anticipated, even quietly prepared for.

And yet… it can knock us flat.

💥 Even when we expect it.
💥 Even when we thought we were ready.
💥 Even when we had a “good relationship.”

There’s a disorienting ache in losing the person who remembered your allergies, your stories, the name of your first pet—the one who held the archive of you.

And yet, this grief is often minimized:

👉 “You were lucky to have them so long.”
👉 “They lived a full life.”
👉 “At least they were a good parent.”

All said with good intentions—
But often through someone else’s lens of what “should” be enough.

And what about the grief that isn’t caused by death?

🌀 A parent with dementia
🌀 Chronic illness slowly changing who they are
🌀 A strained or unsafe relationship
🌀 Years of silence, distance, or complete estrangement

This grief isn’t always spoken.
But it lives in the body. In the nervous system. In the moments that catch us off guard.

As Mother’s Day approaches (here in the U.S.), and Father’s Day not far behind—
Let’s make space for the griefs that don’t always get named.

💔 For the ones who miss what once was
💔 For the ones grieving what never was
💔 For the therapists holding space for all of it
💔 For the humans walking through it themselves

Your grief is valid.
You’re not too much.
You’re not alone.