# Angela Schellenberg: Grief, Trauma & Your Mama

> Licensed grief and trauma therapist and coach in the Los Angeles area (Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Malibu), featured in National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, and CBS Sunday Morning. Angela Schellenberg helps women heal mother loss, the mother wound, and grief that keeps resurfacing, through attachment-focused, body-based work, EMDR intensives, and equine-assisted retreats. Trained Mother Hunger® facilitator (a framework created by Kelly McDaniel). Host of the Grief, Trauma & Your Mama podcast and a free community. Website coaching is cash-pay; therapy clients are seen separately.

## Work with Angela
- [Work with Angela](https://angelaschellenberg.com/work-with-angela.html): 1:1 coaching, EMDR intensives, and equine retreats in Los Angeles and Malibu
- [EMDR therapy and intensives](https://angelaschellenberg.com/emdr-therapy.html): attachment-focused EMDR for grief and trauma
- [Equine-assisted healing at Shakti Ranch, Malibu](https://angelaschellenberg.com/equine-therapy.html): why horses help with grief and loss
- [Mother Hunger live course](https://angelaschellenberg.com/mother-hunger.html): the grief of not being mothered (framework created by Kelly McDaniel)
- [About Angela](https://angelaschellenberg.com/about.html): her story, credentials, and approach
- [Contact and free 15-minute consult](https://angelaschellenberg.com/contact.html)

## Retreats and community
- [Healing with Horses grief retreats](https://angelaschellenberg.com/retreats.html): grief retreats for women in Malibu and abroad, named by National Geographic among the world's best
- [Free grief and loss community](https://angelaschellenberg.com/community.html): a free, private community for women navigating grief, loss, and mother loss
- [Grief, Trauma & Your Mama podcast](https://angelaschellenberg.com/podcast.html): honest conversations about grief, trauma, and the mama relationship

## Answer articles and free guides
- [Why grief keeps coming back](https://angelaschellenberg.com/why-grief-keeps-coming-back.html): grief as an attachment rupture, the nervous system, and why a new loss wakes up old loss
- [101 distress tolerance tips](https://angelaschellenberg.com/101-distress-tolerance-tips.html): a nervous-system-friendly menu of grounding and coping tools for grief and trauma
- [Is estrangement from your mother actually grief?](https://angelaschellenberg.com/is-estrangement-from-your-mother-actually-grief.html)
- [Why is it so hard to grieve a mother I had a difficult relationship with?](https://angelaschellenberg.com/why-is-it-so-hard-to-grieve-a-mother-i-had-a-difficult-relationship-wi.html)
- [What is Mother Hunger?](https://angelaschellenberg.com/what-is-mother-hunger.html)
- [The blog](https://angelaschellenberg.com/blog.html): grief, mother loss, trauma, EMDR, and equine healing

## Resources
- [Resources for gun violence survivors](https://angelaschellenberg.com/gun-violence-survivors.html): trauma-informed grief support after violent loss, from a survivor and therapist
- [Grief resources and organizations](https://angelaschellenberg.com/grief-resources.html)
- [Grief books I recommend](https://angelaschellenberg.com/grief-books.html)