Offering one-on-one grief counseling via phone or online.

My losses include my father at the age of 14,  a friend from childhood in 2021, my brother and my youngest son in 2017. I also have a visual impairment and understand the pain of loss due to a disability.   I can help you turn your grief full circle from less  pain through healing, to remembering with hope and love.  I have training in many trauma response modalities including IFS, The Healing Timeline and Psychodrama.

My style is to walk beside you through this journey of loss and listen for understanding. I meet you where you are and encourage you to work through your grief at your pace and time.  You are the expert of your own grief ~ David Kessler.

Helping you process grief to inspire healing, growth & wellness

Crystal Dalton is committed to providing the highest level of grief support through education, experience, and insights into the often-unacknowledged rocky terrain of grief. When she went through her own loss, Crystal realized that our culture doesn’t always provide adequate space for talking about death, dying, and grief. As a result, many people in our community are unprepared and ill-equipped to handle loss for themselves or while supporting others. This is one of the primary reasons Crystal decided to turn her pain into purpose by becoming a Certified Grief Educator and a Certified Grief Movement Guide.  In addition to these certifications, Crystal also brings many years of professional experience of serving victims and survivors of trauma as a police-based victim advocate for the state of Delaware. This has allowed for a unique, interdisciplinary, and well-informed approach to serving those who are grieving.

Crystal Dalton’s integration of holistic healing practices, and her personal journey with grief aligns with her intention to change the narrative around grieving, and to help serve others experiencing grief through education, support and intuitive movement.  She hopes to create an abundance of space to normalize talking about death, dying, and grief, which in turn may help to create a community where people can easily find the support they are seeking.  Crystal Dalton offers peer-led support in-person, virtually and outdoors.

Her services include:

–Individual Grief Support Sessions
–Small Grief Support Groups
–Community Grief Nature Walks
–Moving Through Grief Sessions which use ‘movement, breath + sound to release pain and struggle to connect to more empowerment and love’ (credit: Paul Denniston, founder of Grief Yoga)
–Yoga for Trauma Survivors
–Intuitive Movement and Healing Sessions

God has placed it on my heart to help Christian women, possibly men, going through grief or a loss within their lives. Having a solid faith in God, would have helped me during the past deaths and desert times I have gone through. The process of grief serves three main purposes in our spiritual development. We need the grief process for change, healing, and ongoing spiritual growth. In Matthew 5:4 (NIV) Jesus said, “Blessed are those that mourn.” Jesus teaches that those who let themselves feel grief about their bad life choices to the point that it motivates them to change their behavior, find blessings. God wants us all to reflect on life choices outside of his created intent and feel grief for the losses they create. When we don’t let ourselves feel grief over sinful life choices, we block our ability to participate in God’s grace. Jesus taught in John 9:41 “Jesus said, If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”

Another aspect of the grief process is how grief brings about healing. The story of mankind portrayed in the Bible is that God created man in unbroken connection to Him and each other. As a result of the fall, man suffered loss. Created for a perfect love connection, but becoming out of balance with it because of sin. Proverbs 19:22 reads: “What a person desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar.”  The problem that we face is that from the earliest of age in this life we at best get “failing love” from humans. Even the best of families can’t give their children everything they need because their love is imperfect.

Only unfailing love comes from God. As a result, when a human being looks to another for love in some form and doesn’t get it, they experience loss. When it happens chronically, they must look for a way to cover it up, to stop the pain. That’s why the above proverb says that it’s better to be “poor than a liar.” In this life when tend to view our temporal problems as the biggest obstacles to our happiness and freedom. However, we must suffer loss and grief in order to receive spiritual healing. Desperation comes before transformation in this aspect of the grief process.

Finally, we need the grief process for growth and maturity. James 1:2-4 reads, “Consider it a pure joy my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds because the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” When I don’t get the job I want, I learn that my security comes from God, not an employer. When my health fails, I learn that I am not built to last in this form forever. My life disappointments become a way to empathize and comfort others going through the same trials. Every loss, when persevered through with faith, creates the opportunity to get more firmly anchored in God’s providence. Ultimately, we need the process of grief to prepare for the next life. Throughout the Bible, we can find stories, teachings, and examples of how grief refines the faith of a believer.

• One-on-one peer-to-peer grief support
• Assistance with processing loss (i.e., relationships, jobs, pets, friends, a move, and more)
• Energy work (Reiki)

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