Grief Support for Immigrant and Refugee Families in Brooklyn Park, MN

Grief carries added layers of complexity for immigrant and refugee families, layers that generic grief support often misses entirely. Brooklyn Park is home to a significant East African and immigrant community, and grief here can mean mourning a loved one who died far away, unable to travel for a funeral, or carrying losses connected to displacement itself, a homeland, a former life, relationships interrupted by migration, alongside more immediate losses.

Grief that spans distance and displacement

For many immigrant families, grief isn't limited to a single loss; it can include the compounded grief of leaving a home country, losing touch with extended family, and then facing a death from thousands of miles away with no ability to be physically present for burial or mourning rituals that matter deeply. This kind of grief often goes unacknowledged because it doesn't fit familiar timelines or expectations.

Honoring cultural mourning practices

Grief counseling that respects your background doesn't ask you to set aside cultural or religious mourning practices in favor of a generic framework. Sessions can make room for whatever grief actually looks like for you and your family, whether that includes specific religious rituals, extended family involvement, or expectations around how and when grief should be expressed, while still providing space to process what a Western clinical model might call complicated or disenfranchised grief.

Support across generations

Grief can also look different across generations within the same family: older family members carrying losses connected to their home country, younger family members grieving relatives they may barely remember or never met, all within one household. Radiant Recovery offers grief counseling to eligible Minnesota clients through secure telehealth, with a culturally responsive approach to loss and mourning.

Meet Our Minnesota Providers

Radiant Recovery & Counseling's clinical team includes:

Charity Ntor-Ue: a Pre-Licensed LPCC therapist serving individuals, children, adolescents, and families across Minnesota via telehealth. View Profile

Laura Carlisle: a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LADC) and pre-licensed clinician. View Profile