Maybe you’ve said this:

“I don’t even know what I’m feeling.”
Let’s find the words for it.

I lost my dad at 14 and my mom at 26, and I didn’t have language for either loss until my 30s. Now I help people who’ve lost a parent put words to what they’re carrying.

In your free Grief Map Session

  • Who you lost
  • How old you were
  • Where it’s showing up now
  • Then we both decide.

Free, 45 minutes, no pressure to sign up for anything. Pick a time.

“The Grief Map session helped me recognize how much responsibility I had been carrying and, more importantly, what was actually mine to carry, what belonged to others, and what needed to be worked through together.”

— James

“Seeing my Grief Map in writing and laid out in front of me was so helpful in my grief journey. Seeing someone take my jumbled, hard to explain thoughts and lay them out in a way that made me feel understood and heard really made an impact.”

— Grief Map client
Robert DelFave, smiling slightly, in a dark sweater against a soft green wall

My story

I’m someone who finally found the words.

Not a therapist, not an expert. Just someone who’s lived this twice.

  1. 14

    My dad died when I was 14. I didn’t have words for it, and I didn’t understand that my life was about to change.

  2. 26

    My mom died when I was 26. Our relationship was complicated, and I kept burying what I felt.

  3. 30s

    It wasn’t until my 30s that I started putting language to any of it.

  4. Now

    That’s when I knew I wanted to help other people do the same.

Read more: Losing a parent young · Grief years later · Losing a parent in your 20s

How it works

Three ways in. You decide how far to go.

This isn’t a method, a framework, or therapy. Nobody here is broken, and there’s nothing to fix. It’s coaching from someone who lived it, and it can sit alongside a therapist.

  1. Start here

    Grief Map Session

    Free · 45 minutes

    A first conversation to start putting words to what you’re carrying.

    Book your free session
  2. One at a time

    Single Session

    $175 · 60 minutes, 1:1

    One focused conversation when you need it.

    Book a session
  3. 90-day program

    Carried Forward

    $1,200 · 6 sessions over 90 days

    Includes your Grief Map, your parent’s story told in full and written down, a plan for grief ambushes, and a plan for your next hard date.

    Email me to start

See full details for each offer

Unparented podcast cover art: a large serif U above the words Unparented, a podcast about loss

The podcast

Unparented

Conversations about the loss showing up later, not about how to get over it.

Listen and see episodes
Cover of The Other Side of This by Robert DelFave

The book

The Other Side of This

Written for grieving teens and the adults trying to support them.

About the book

As recommended by

Eluna Resource Center

See The Other Side of This in its Resource Library

Start with the free conversation.

It’s free, it takes 45 minutes, and there’s no pressure to sign up for anything. Then we both decide.

Book a free 45-minute Grief Map Session