Around week three the calls stop. That is normal and not unkind, and it leaves you with the part nobody mentions: everyone else’s version of this ended, and yours did not.
MindView Therapy provides grief counseling for adults across Queens, online by secure video.
What grief counseling actually is
Not a method for getting over someone. Grief is not a malfunction to be corrected, and treating it as one is how people end up feeling defective for still hurting in month nine.
What it offers is an hour where the loss can take up all the room, without you managing anyone else’s feelings about it. Alongside that, practical work on what grief damages: sleep, appetite, concentration, going back to work, the first birthday, the paperwork nobody warns you about.
Grief is not depression, though they overlap and sometimes both need attention. Your therapist will say plainly if what you are describing also needs treating as depression, rather than leaving it to run.
What we offer, and what we do not
Weekly individual counseling for adults 18 and over, by video, for as long or as short a stretch as you want. Six sessions is a legitimate use of this. So is a year.
We are not a bereavement support group, and for some people sitting with others who have had the same kind of loss does something individual work cannot. Hospitals and hospices across Queens run them, often free, and we will tell you if that is the better fit or a good addition.
Sessions are online by secure video anywhere in the borough, which matters more than it sounds when getting dressed and onto a train is itself the hardest part of the week.
We are not a crisis service.
What a session involves
Whatever you need it to be. Talking about the person, which many people have nowhere else to do without being carefully managed. Or the logistics. Or the guilt, which is nearly universal and almost never proportionate. Or the anger, at a hospital, a relative, or the person who died.
You will not be asked to describe more than you want to. Silence in a session is allowed and is sometimes the whole point.
We work with grief, perinatal loss, life transitions that arrive carrying a loss, and the depression, anxiety and sleep problems that often follow.
Doing this work in Queens
Queens has a large and growing older population. 17.8% of residents are 65 and over, a higher share than Buffalo, Syracuse or Hempstead (US Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimates, table B01001). That means many of the losses here are long marriages and long caregiving arrangements ending at once, where the person and the entire structure of the day disappear on the same morning. The practical rebuilding is not filler in those cases, it is most of the work.
There is also a grief that is particular to this borough and rarely has a name attached to it: losing someone who is not here. In a place where nearly half of residents were born in another country, a great many people are grieving a parent or a sibling who died overseas, sometimes without being able to travel for the funeral, sometimes finding out by phone hours after the fact. Missing the burial removes the one ritual most cultures rely on to mark the thing as real, and people carry that unfinished for years.
That grief is legitimate and it is treatable, and it is not a lesser version because the death happened somewhere else. It comes up often enough in this borough that raising it should not require you to explain why it counts.
20.6% of Queens adults describe their general health as fair or poor (CDC PLACES, 2025 release, based on 2023 BRFSS data), which is worth naming because grief has a physical component people mistake for something being newly wrong with them. Exhaustion, chest tightness and being unable to think clearly are ordinary grief, not a separate emergency.
Insurance
We are in-network with UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Medicare, Oscar Health, Meritain Health, Oxford Health Plans, Cigna, Optum, Highmark BCBS WNY, Univera Healthcare and MagnaCare. Medicare matters here specifically, since many of the people who need this are on it. We check your plan and tell you your cost before the first session.
Questions people ask before booking
It has been three years. Is that too late? No. People often come years later, when something reopens it, and that is a normal reason to start.
It was not a death. Still grief. A divorce, a diagnosis, an estrangement, leaving a country. All of it counts here.
The funeral was overseas and I could not go. That comes up frequently here and it is a real and specific kind of grief, not a smaller one.
Am I doing this wrong? There is no correct sequence. If your grief looks nothing like anyone else’s, that is the usual case.
If you are in crisis
We are not a crisis service. If you are having thoughts of harming yourself, call or text 988, any hour, free and confidential. If you are in immediate danger, call 911.
How to get started
Choose a time and book at choose your therapist. It takes about 30 seconds. You can also call (646) 493-4007, and you can read more about our Jamaica, Queens location. We are accepting new clients and respond within one business day.