GRIEF RECOVERY GROUPS
Unpaid family caregivers often experience many forms of grief and loss long before — and sometimes without — the death of a loved one. Caregiving can bring ongoing changes to relationships, identity, routines, roles, hopes for the future, financial stability, personal freedom, and emotional well-being. Many caregivers also experience ambiguous grief and loss, where a loved one may still be physically present but emotionally, cognitively, or behaviorally changed due to mental illness, substance use disorder, dementia, traumatic brain injury, chronic illness, or disability. These losses are real, cumulative, and often carried quietly over time.
Our Grief Recovery Support Groups were created to provide caregivers with a safe, compassionate space to process grief, build emotional resilience, and reconnect with hope. Using the evidence-based The Grief Recovery Method®, participants will learn practical tools designed to help individuals move beyond simply coping and toward healing from unresolved grief. The program focuses on emotional completion, self-awareness, and meaningful steps toward greater peace, connection, and well-being.
The groups are led by Cynthia Tyson, Ph.D., MSW, LISW-S, a skilled behavioral health professional and Certified Grief Recovery Method® Specialist with extensive experience supporting individuals and families through complex emotional experiences and life transitions. Through guided discussion, reflection, and structured activities, participants are supported in understanding grief in a new way while recognizing they are not alone in their experiences.
The virtual groups will be offered in two 8-week sessions. The first session begins Thursday, June 4 at 7 p.m. ET. The second 8-week session begins August 13. The program will culminate in an in-person retreat at the 92-acre Camp because I said I would in Central Ohio. These sessions are being provided free of charge for residents of Cuyahoga County. A fee-based option is available for participants residing outside of Cuyahoga County.
Addressing grief is an important part of caregiver wellness and behavioral health prevention. When grief remains unprocessed, it can contribute to increased stress, isolation, hopelessness, anxiety, compassion fatigue, and caregiver burnout. By creating space to acknowledge and work through grief, caregivers strengthen protective factors such as emotional regulation, social connection, resilience, self-compassion, and hope.
These groups are offered free of charge for residents of Cuyahoga County through the generous support of the Nella Durinda Levenhagen Foundation. A fee-based option is available for participants residing outside of Cuyahoga County.
Email Jenny/LISW-S, our Director of Programs, with any questions or schedule a quick call to learn more about your program.
You may register for this, or any of our programs, via our registration portal. To register for Grief Recovery Groups, use the “support group” link in the registration portal.
We have an onboarding process with your privacy and confidentiality in mind. It usually starts with a quick phone chat with Jenny to make sure we can meet your expectations OR go ahead and register for any/all of our programs and we'll work to onboard you.
Once you complete your registration, sign our waiver, and are onboarded, you will receive more information about the Grief Recovery Group sessions.
We’re using a new Electronic Health Records (EHR) portal - your privacy and confidentiality is one of our primary concerns. If you have any challenges registering via our secure link above, please email Jenny, our Director of Programs, or call her at 216-493-7240.
VIRTUAL GRIEF RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUPS via ZOOM
Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. EST