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What We Offer

A Deeper Level of Mental Health Care and Support

  • Mental Health Counseling - COMING SOON - 2026

    Experience next-generation, clinically robust, integrative mental health counseling that unites evidence-based practices with culturally attuned care to help you heal & thrive —

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  • Emotional Support

    Discover compassionate, you-centered emotional support that honors your identity, lived experience, and helps you engage coping skills that restore balance and peace of mind.

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  • Support Groups

    Join a support group or healing circle to share your experiences and insights with others who appreciate your presence and seek deeper connection in a supportive, respectful, and diverse environment.

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  • Podcast

    Explore meaningful conversations across each series that honors lived experience, offers practical and heartfelt guidance, and celebrates the many ways people heal, connect, and make meaning in life.

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  • Blog

    Read meaningful explorations of emotional, spiritual, and mental health topics that honor your humanity, offer practical insights, and uplift the many ways people make sense of the world, heal, and thrive.

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The “On Grief” Podcast

Episode 5: Disenfranchised Grief

Mario "Mai" Gross On Grief Podcast Episode 5 - 2:24:26, 11.15 PM

  • In this episode of our “On Grief” podcast we explore disenfranchised grief, a form of grief in which loss is deeply felt yet denied recognition, validation, or communal care.

    We enter this discussion through the stories of lived human experiences, those living on the margins of social life, whose grief often goes unseen. We examine how certain communities, including Black, queer, aging, disabled, incarcerated, migrant, and economically marginalized individuals, frequently encounter grief that is not socially acknowledged or supported, leaving them to mourn in isolation.

    We also consider how the experience of having one’s grief dismissed does more than intensify personal sorrow. It can deepen isolation, strain mental and emotional well being, and weaken the moral fabric of the broader society. 

    This episode is an invitation to explore disenfranchised grief not as a private burden to be endured alone, but as a collective call to responsibility. It challenges us to care for community members whose grief has been denied recognition and support, and to understand that this is not only a personal concern, but a matter of public health, social welfare, and collective well being.

  • Explore research and community voices on the subject here:

    Disenfranchised Grief: the Concept

    Community Violence, Racialized Grief, and the Need for Collective Healing Spaces

    Institutional Betrayal and Disenfranchised Grief

    The Hope Circle Study

*A Gentle Note

All content provided through this site—including our podcast, blog, workshops, videos, written communications, and community programming—is offered for educational, informational, and supportive purposes. Engagement with this content does not establish a therapeutic or clinical relationship and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical, mental health, or crisis care.

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Presence Over Platitude

However the human struggle unfolds, the right support and care, like a warm hug, can open new doors to hope, connection, and community.

~ Mario "Mai" Gross, founder

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Instead of chasing trends, we’ve been spending most of our time cultivating our circle of care: investing in people, deepening our programs and presence, and offering support to others in ways that truly matter most.

While we are quietly blossoming into something quite beautiful, we invite you to explore our site and ways to connect with us through our healing circles, support groups and workshops, and check back real soon as we anticipate our presence, circle of care, and connection will continue to grow online.

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