Helping people who have experienced loss in a “hurry up and get over it” world.
Grief counseling and support from a skilled and compassionate counselor with experience in loss issues.

Anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one understands that healing takes a lot of time and energy.The intensity of symptoms associated with grief can make you feel like you’re “going crazy.” You aren’t going crazy, but you may benefit from talking with someone who understands. Because I am a bereaved parent myself, I have chosen to focus my private practice in providing care and guidance to those who have experienced loss.

The Hope Floats Mission

We are a bereavement and educational center for individuals and families who are grieving or facing other life challenges. Our mission is to help people cope with loss, support their healing, and nurture their physical and emotional well-being.

Bereavement Services

Our support services are free of charge and open to the community. Hope Floats offers peer-led support groups for adults in a safe environment where people are able to share and process their grief with others facing similar losses. Our facilitators are trained volunteers who often have experienced a loss similar to the group members. We believe that the peer-led groups for adults help members move forward in their grief journeys as they connect with group leaders in meaningful ways.

Hope Floats also offers Mike’s Club, support groups for children, teens, and parenting adults coping with death related loss. We offer a group for sibling loss and one for loss of a parent/caregiver. The children process their grief through activities, arts and crafts, and games with the help of trained support staff, therapists and social workers.

Our day-long support retreats enable people with similar losses to gather together. These retreats include yoga, meditation, group discussion and mini-body treatments. We also host a variety of guest speakers throughout the year.

Hope Floats is an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) public charity. All of our funding comes from grants, fundraisers and private donations.

About Hope Floats Healing & Wellness Center

In 2008 Ken and Denise Brack created Hope Floats in memory of their son Michael, who passed in 2002. Having learned how such a loss is devastating and isolating, they wanted to offer support and resources to others going through a similar crisis. Today the center offers a variety of free support groups, support retreats and complementary wellness classes, body treatments and workshops.

PROFESSIONAL SKILL AREAS:

Grief and Loss Counseling Services:
Extensive experience in providing high quality behavioral health services to individuals who are experiencing losses in their lives. This includes adjustment difficulties and struggles with functioning due to a variety of losses across relationships and the life span. I utilize empathic and compassionate approaches, as well as CBT and supportive counseling strategies to help individuals navigate this often difficult process in a more healthy and productive manner.

Mental Health and Addictions/Prevention Counseling Services:
Effective and resourceful provider of mental health counseling services for individuals with a range of disabilities and diagnoses. Highly experienced with the provision of effective individual and group counseling services in variety of mental health settings, including rehabilitation programs, outpatient clinics, elder services, and psychiatric outreach.

Are you or someone you know:
Feeling more sad or anxious lately?
Grieving the loss of a loved one and just can’t seem to move forward?
Finding that life just feels a little harder these days?
65 years or older?

If you are finding that the answer to some of these questions is yes, I may be able to help. My name is Elisabeth Wallace and I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with over 30 years of experience working with older adults. I provide in home counseling services in and around the Lexington MA area that include evaluations, short and long term treatment, emotional and family support as well as community provider coordination. I accept most health insurances including Medicare.

Please call me and let me know how I can help you start feeling better and enjoying life again.

Elisabeth Neelon Wallace, MSW, LICSW
Geriatric Psychotherapist
Private Practice
lisbeth@rcn.com
781-354-7327
seniorpsychathome.com

Individual Grief Therapy and Trauma Therapy
Grief/Bereavement Support Group
Trauma Survivor Support Group