The Grief Center of Vermont is a community-based grief center located in the heart of the city of Essex Junction. We offer grief support groups, retreats, workshops, educational events, as well as grief and end-of life doula services for people navigating death, loss, and major life transitions. All of our offerings are led by trained facilitators, doulas, artists, and grief specialists who have years of experience offering communal and personalized support to people experiencing all forms of grief and change. The Center offers a range of options to reflect, connect, co-create, learn, and process grief in community. Whether a drop-in group, a seven-week series, an afternoon ritual, or year-long retreat cohort, we seek to meet the deep and universal need for grief support in real-time.

This is a place of refuge and belonging where you do not have to carry the weight of life and death alone. Grief is highly personal, universal, non-linear, and arrives in many forms. You deserve layers of support and care. In an age when you can find online support groups of varying quality and size for anything under the sun and moon, we believe what engages grief (and the difficult dynamics of deep change) is being sustainably seen, held, heard, accepted, and welcomed by a community in a space that doesn’t disappear once you close your browser window or rotate to the next available conference room. You deserve a beautiful, comfortable, welcoming space to gather to process life’s most challenging experiences. Welcome to The Grief Center.