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Psychotherapy & Grief Counseling
You are not alone. Center for Compassion is a Chandler, Arizona practice specializing in traumatic grief, bereavement, and trauma — where your pain is met with compassion instead of platitudes.
In person in Chandler · Telehealth across Arizona · Response within 1–2 business days
Welcome
We are honored to have you here. Perhaps you are here because you or someone you love is suffering after a devastating loss, trauma, or life change. Or, you may be struggling with anxiety and stress and have difficulty simply making it through the day. You are not alone.
At Center for Compassion, we use Grief Affirming Practice® to create a safe and supportive space for grieving and traumatized individuals and families as they survive their most painful moments and find meaning in their lives again. Our approach involves specialized grief counseling, groups, workshops, and communal memorial spaces, all designed to provide you with individualized care to attend to your grief.
Here, you will be met with compassion.
Our Services
Every person's grief is different. These are the ways we can walk alongside you — in person in Chandler, or by telehealth anywhere in Arizona.
Specialized support for traumatic grief after a sudden, unexpected, or out-of-order death — with no stages to complete and no timeline to meet.
Explore grief counseling
Psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, and the ordinary weight of being human.
Explore therapy
Therapeutic groups and workshops for mindfulness, meditation, grief and loss — grief carried alongside other people who understand.
Explore groups & workshops
Professional consultation, training, and speaking on grief and bereavement for clinicians and organizations.
Explore consultation & training
What to expect
We provide a high-structure, high-love environment for our team and our clientele to model a humanistic, attachment-focused approach in our relationships.
We maintain exceptional and leading-edge standards of education, training, and experience for all team members.
We uphold the sanctity of the sacred experience of grief and protect its rightful place to exist safe from judgment, undue influence, coercion, or imperialism.
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
Adrienne Rich
Meet Our Providers
Our team of 11 clinicians specializes in grief, bereavement, and trauma. 8 are currently accepting new clients.
MSW, LCSW, FT
Founder & Clinical Director
she/her
As the founder and clinical director of Center for Compassion, Terri specializes in providing therapeutic support to those enduring traumatic grief after a sudden, unexpected, or out of order death of a beloved family member.
Specializes in adults, anxiety, bereaved parents, bereaved siblings, bereavement, grief …
MSW, LCSW
Psychotherapist
she/her
There is power within our stories. As a trained listener, I enjoy exploring the narratives that we develop within those stories and how they impact the way we see the world, ourselves and our relationships.
Specializes in adolescents, adults, anxiety, bereavement, children, depression …
MS, LPC
Psychotherapist
she/her
It is an honor and immensely humbling to come alongside others with compassion, bearing witness to their grief journeys. All feelings are welcome. I am not afraid to follow you into the dark and sit for a bit.
Specializes in bereaved siblings, bereavement, grief, loss, LGBTQIA+, mindfulness …
MSW, LCSW
Psychotherapist
she/her
It is a privilege to walk alongside you following a devastating loss. My approach is to provide a safe, compassionate space for you to grieve openly as you learn to survive this most painful time.
Specializes in adolescents, adults, anxiety, bereaved parents, bereaved siblings, bereaved spouses …
MSW, LMSW
Associate Therapist
she/her
I use a person-centered, mindfulness-based approach to create a safe and grounding space for you to be heard and seen, and to openly feel and grieve.
Specializes in adolescents, adults, anxiety, bereavement, caretakers, chronic illness …
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Associate Therapist
she/her
Whether you are coping with the loss of a loved one or mourning other forms of change, I strive to create a compassionate space where you can explore your emotions without judgment.
Specializes in adults, anxiety, bereavement, couples, depression, grief …
In their words
Thank you for creating a safe space for me to process the most difficult thing I've ever experienced in my life. You are amazing at what you do and I am so grateful to have found you. Thank you for being gentle with me and helping me learn to be gentle with myself.
Thank you for consistently showing up for me throughout this path of grief and always knowing what to say.
Your constant thought of others is beautiful, your kindness is infinite and I am blessed and grateful to have worked with you for counseling. Thank you for helping show me how to grieve and to remember.
Trained, certified & affiliated
Visit us
Center for Compassion is conveniently located in Chandler, AZ, off the 101 freeway between Ray and Warner, on Alma School Rd. Our office is part of the Chandler Square complex and is located on the south end. Our name is clearly visible on the outside wall of the building, along with the window of the main entrance.
1331 N Alma School Rd Ste 100
Chandler, AZ 85224
480-530-6441 (call or text)
info@thecenterforcompassion.com
By appointment. Call or text 480-530-6441 to arrange a time.
Hurting? Reach out.
Center for Compassion offers both telemedicine and in-person appointments based on availability. Someone from our team will get back to you within 1–2 business days.