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Sudden Loss · Grief & Trauma · Attachment · Mother Loss
Everything you need to vet, quote, and book Angela Schellenberg: a paste-ready bio, photos, speaking topics, and a direct line. Angela is a licensed grief and trauma therapist featured by National Geographic, CBS Sunday Morning and The Wall Street Journal, and a source on sudden, traumatic loss: the death that comes with no warning. Fast turnaround, quotable, and comfortable on camera, on mic, and on the land.
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See Angela in the media
“You Are Not Alone,” a mental health panel led by Joely Fisher and Sean Astin (Jan. 2025). Angela joins Marianne Williamson, David Kessler, Claire Bidwell Smith, Rabbi Steve Leder, Tramaine El-Amin and Amanda Kloots.
Watch on YouTube →“Grief getaways are on the rise.” Angela’s equine grief retreat at Shakti Ranch in Malibu is named Best for Equine Therapy.
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After the Pearl Street Mall attack in Boulder, Angela spoke about collective grief and trauma: “New grief and trauma brings back old grief and trauma.”
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Angela Schellenberg is a licensed grief and trauma therapist and coach based in the Los Angeles area, specializing in sudden loss, mother loss, attachment, and trauma. In May 2026, National Geographic featured her equine grief retreat at Shakti Ranch in Malibu as Best for Equine Therapy, and she appeared in CBS Sunday Morning's Motherless Daughters segment alongside author Hope Edelman.
Her own grief arrived long before her training did. She grew up wrapped in her mom's love and lost her young; her father was killed by gun violence in 1988, and by 22, both of her parents were gone. She has supported more than 500 women as a licensed therapist, trained in EMDR and grounded in attachment-focused care. She hosts the Grief, Trauma & Your Mama™ podcast, teaches at the Omega Institute, co-leads grief retreats with author Claire Bidwell Smith, and is a trained Mother Hunger® Facilitator, taught by Kelly McDaniel.
Licensed grief & trauma therapist. Telehealth across California, Washington, Arizona, and Florida; in person at Shakti Ranch, Malibu.
National Geographic (2026). Her equine grief retreat featured as Best for Equine Therapy.
CBS Sunday Morning. Motherless Daughters segment with Hope Edelman, Mother's Day 2026.
Host & faculty. Grief, Trauma & Your Mama podcast; has taught at the Omega Institute.
Equine-assisted grief work. Somatic sessions and retreats with the herd at Shakti Ranch; co-leads retreats with Claire Bidwell Smith.
Trained Mother Hunger® Facilitator, taught by Kelly McDaniel, author of Mother Hunger®.
Story Angles
Conversations Angela is ready to have
Segment-ready topics. Each one comes with research, lived experience, and language your audience hasn't heard before.
No warning, no goodbyeWhat a sudden death does to the body: an accident, a heart attack, a suicide, an overdose, an act of violence. Why the shock lasts longer than anyone expects.
The last ordinary dayThe last text, the grocery list, the plan for Thursday. Why people bereaved suddenly grieve the goodbye they never got as well as the person.
Grief is an attachment ruptureThe body keeps reaching for its person. What attachment science explains about grief that the five stages leave out.
Why we grieve animals hardestAttachment, mother loss, and what horses know. For everyone who cried harder over the dog than they could over a person, and felt ashamed of it.
Grief is not a stage-based processIt is an attachment injury the body carries. Why the five-stages model made grief lonelier, and what helps instead.
Losses with no nameEstrangement grief, ambiguous loss, and the loss before the loss. The griefs we carry without a funeral.
Mother's Day for the motherlessA therapist's guide to the calendar's hardest day, for daughters grieving the mother they lost or the one they never quite had.
Why grief keeps coming backYears later, out of nowhere. What the nervous system is asking for when old loss resurfaces.
What equine-assisted therapy actually doesNo riding, no horse experience. How prey-animal attunement and co-regulation reach grief that talk alone can't.
On Deadline
When a sudden loss makes the news
Angela comments on sudden and collective loss as stories break, with clinical context and the steadiness of someone who has lived it. She lost her father to gun violence in 1988. After the 2025 Pearl Street Mall attack in Boulder, Denver7 asked her about collective grief.
Mass shootings and gun violenceSurvivors, families and communities in the first days, and at the anniversaries.
Wildfires and disastersLosing a home, a neighborhood, or a person at once, and the grief that arrives after the cameras leave.
Suicide and overdose lossLanguage that is safe to print, and what the people left behind need to hear.
The death of a public figureWhy strangers grieve someone they never met, and how a public death reopens private ones.
On deadline? Email angela@angelaschellenberg.com with “Deadline” in the subject line and your timing. Same-day quotes whenever possible.
Grief isn't a problem to solve. It's a story that needs a witness.
Angela Schellenberg
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Expert on
Sudden and traumatic loss, suicide and overdose loss, gun violence loss, mother loss, attachment, grief in the body, ambiguous and estrangement grief, EMDR, equine-assisted therapy
Formats
TV and podcast interviews, expert commentary, keynotes, panels, essays
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Malibu or LA studios, or virtual
On location
Filming with the herd at Shakti Ranch, Malibu, by arrangement
Turnaround
Fast. Same-day quotes for reporters on deadline whenever possible