Clear answers for a difficult season.

A grief-informed resource created by Nicole Wagstrom, MS, LPCC. It offers practical guidance for grief, child loss, illness, caregiving, emotional overwhelm, life transitions, and the people trying to support someone well.

No. The public website provides education, practical tools, and compassionate guidance. It does not diagnose, provide emergency care, or create a counseling relationship.

Nicole Wagstrom, MS, LPCC, an Ohio Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with more than twenty years of counseling and program-leadership experience, including work with military-connected school youth. Nicole is also the mother of Xavier, who died at age 12.

No—and the site is transparent about that. Educational articles, support-topic pages, What to Say guidance, coping tools, care ideas, and The First Five are free. The $39 Grief GPS and personalized counseling, coaching, or support-navigation services are paid.

A personalized digital guide for one real situation. It includes caring words, meaningful actions, gift or care ideas when useful, what to avoid, and a follow-up plan. It costs $39 and is delivered by email in 24–48 hours.

Counseling is clinical mental-health care and requires appropriate licensure, location, consent, privacy protections, and clinical fit. Coaching or support navigation is non-clinical practical guidance and does not diagnose or replace therapy.

No. Counseling availability depends on where the client is located, Nicole's professional licensure, clinical fit, privacy requirements, and informed consent. Contact Nicole to ask; do not assume eligibility from the website.

Start with the situation closest to what you are carrying. You can browse support topics, open The First Five, find words for a difficult conversation, or look specifically at child-loss support.

There is no universal timeline. Grief often changes shape and arrives in waves. Support may be useful at any point—including months or years after a death.

Consider professional support when grief or stress is disrupting daily functioning, sleep, work, relationships, or self-care; when you are relying on substances to cope; when symptoms feel unmanageable; or simply when you want informed support.

No account is required to browse the public educational resources.

Compassion Navigator is not a crisis service. If there is immediate danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room. In the United States, call or text 988 for 24/7 crisis support.