About Sue deRada, RN, LMT, GC-C
Sue deRada, a registered nurse, grief-counselor-certified, and a licensed massage therapist; has practiced nursing in varied settings including hospital, home health/hospice, mental health & addiction.
In 2011, Sue developed a Bereavement Program and Support Group for Hospice. After leaving Hospice in 2013 Sue continued to facilitate Open Arms, a grief support group,
Sue discovered that grief is a vital missing link in assisting her client’s healing from their physical, emotional/mental, and spiritual losses. “Many of us have unresolved, unhealed, and buried grief within our psyche, muscles, and brain waiting for the next loss to be remembered,” Sue reports. “When working with a newly bereaved it is often evident that their grief is not proportionate to their current loss. With exploration they discover that there are many unresolved losses at the base of the current one. Healing requires looking at all of the layers of loss,” deRada continues. “It is so uplifting to see people previously burdened by profound sadness to make progress by recovering from their loss and subsequent grief and connecting to their true self,” concludes Sue.
Grief explains why some, in spite of all the positive changes they’ve made, continue with imbalances, pain, imbedded emotions and feelings. Unresolved loss and grief can progress to becoming a major dis-ease or a chronic depression.
I use grief counseling and meaning making theories, and active processes like Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Cognitive Behavioral therapy, vision boarding, and recreating one’s self-concept, self-love, self-care and self-responsibility as a means to move through unresolved grief process to the recreation of the “best version of self” ever!