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HEALING THROUGH GRIEF & LOSS

WELCOME TO NEKODA'S HEART

HELPING YOU NAVIGATE
A JOURNEY NOT OF YOUR OWN CHOOSING

Is This You?

Are You?                                                            

  • Content with life?                                                 

  • Hurting from broken relationships?                     

  • Struggling with trust and intimacy?                     

  • Wonder why life is so hard?                                 

  • Stressed and overwhelmed?                               

  • Life swirling out of control?                                   

  • Alone in your struggles?                                       

  • Wondering where is God in all of this mess?     

 

 

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Struggling With: 

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  • God's Love

  • Knowing Your True Identity

  • Loving Yourself and Others

  • Loneliness

  • Sinful Behaviors

  • Negative Thoughts

  • Childhood Wounds            

  • Crisis of Faith

  • Abuse (Past or Present)

  • Stress & Anxiety

  • Grief, Loss, & Depression

  • Major Life Situations

  • Life Transitions

At Nekoda's Heart, we understand the complexities of life and offer compassionate support and guidance to help you navigate through your challenges. You don't have to face these struggles alone. Reach out to us today to begin your journey towards Healing and Wholeness.

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Lydia Johnson MA, LPC, ATR-BC

Meet
Lydia Johnson MA, LPC, ATR-BC

Professionally:

 

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and Board Certified Art Therapist with training in Formational Prayer Counseling and Spiritual Direction.

 

I received my education from Drexel University, Ashland Theological Seminary, and Healing Care Ministries. I provide formational prayer counseling, spiritual direction, and art therapy through a variety of settings with individuals, couples, families, and groups.

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I am also a trained childbirth educator and currently training to be a bereavement doula, which is someone who supports and helps families who are experiencing the loss of their baby, whether it's through miscarriage, stillbirth, or a fatal diagnosis (Ricketts, L., 2024).

 

Personally: I am a Christian, Wife, and Mother

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“Healing is really just letting yourself feel. It is unearthing your traumas and embarrassments and losses and allowing yourself the emotions that you could not have in the moment that you were having those experiences. ”
-Brianna Wiest

Services

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Grief & Loss Consultation 

Helping those who are grieving :

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  • Death of a loved one

  • Miscarriage/Infertility

  • Job loss

  • Divorce

  • Incarceration

  • Military deployment

  • Foster care/adoption

  • Changes in Health/Caregiving

  • All forms of oppression and discrimination

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Life Transition Coaching 

Guiding individuals who are experiencing:

  • Loss of loved one

  • Transition into adulthood  

  • Retirement

  • Marriage

  • Separation and Divorce 

  • Aging 

  • New or Loss of Job

  • Empty nest

  • New baby

  • New or Ending of a relationship 

  • Relocation

  • Caregiver (beginning or ending)

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Bereavement
"Loss" Doula 

Supporting families by: 

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  • Providing emotional support during pregnancy, birth, & postpartum

  • Helping processes medical team information  

  • Creating birth plan, if the baby lives or dies

  • Providing burial resources 

  • Preparing miscarriage kit

  • Getting the family ready to say goodbye to their baby

  • Identifying ways to remember their child 

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