Work With Angela · One to One
Grief, trauma, and the relationship you have with your mom.
That is the work Angela does with women, one at a time. The grief you can name and the grief you can’t, in weekly sessions online, a full day at the ranch, or side by side with the horses.
Angela Schellenberg is a grief and trauma coach and licensed therapist serving women in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Malibu. She offers grief and trauma coaching online, Attachment-Focused EMDR, day intensives, and equine-assisted healing at Shakti Ranch.
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If this feels like home,
Let’s begin the work.
You can bring anything into this work:
The grief you can name, and the grief you can’t.
What your earliest relationships taught your body to carry.
The loss that doesn’t have a funeral.
Most people come when something is shifting and they want to understand what’s actually true for them. Grief lives in the body. The work meets it there.
How It Begins
Three steps, the first one small
1
Book a free 15-minute call
No intake forms, no pressure. Just a real conversation, so you can get a sense of Angela and she can get a sense of what you’re carrying.
2
Choose the shape of the work
Weekly sessions online, a full day at the ranch, or time with the horses. Angela will tell you honestly what she thinks fits, including when the answer is “not me.”
3
Begin, at your pace
Grief doesn’t run on a schedule, and neither does this. The work moves at the speed your nervous system can actually hold.
Investment · 1:1 Sessions · 60 Minutes · 100% Virtual
Ways To Work Together
Every path starts the same way: with a free conversation. From there, choose the shape that fits your life right now. The rate is the same either way, $350 a session.
Weekly 1:1 Sessions
Best if you want steady company through your grief, an hour at a time, from wherever you are.
Sessions & packages ↓
The Day Intensive
Best if you want one long, protected day to go deep, without opening and closing the work every week.
A full day at the ranch ↓
Equine Session
Best if words haven’t been reaching it. 75 minutes with the herd at Shakti Ranch in Malibu.
Meet the herd ↓
EMDR Session
Best if you’ve done the talking and know there’s more underneath. Attachment-Focused EMDR, virtual.
How it works ↓
One Session
$350
A single point of entry.
Best for meeting Angela’s way of working, or for focused time on one specific thing.
Three Sessions
$1,050
A beginning.
Best for putting language to what you’re carrying and getting the work started.
Six Sessions
$2,100
A sustained container.
Best for grief with roots. The losses tangled up with your earliest relationships.
Ten Sessions
$3,500
The full arc.
Best for deep attachment repair, with room to integrate as you go.
Not sure which fits? That is exactly what the free call is for.
Fifteen minutes, no intake forms, no pressure. Angela will tell you honestly what she recommends, and it’s okay if the answer is “not yet.”
Book a Free 15-Minute CallSessions & Logistics
What to know before you book
60 minutes
Every session runs a full hour, online from wherever you are.
One flat rate
$350 a session, in every package. A package simply commits you to the arc of the work up front.
Flexible scheduling
No time that fits? Email Angela and we’ll find one for both schedules.
The Day Intensive · Shakti Ranch, Malibu
A full day, fully held
Some grief doesn’t fit into weekly hours. A Day Intensive gives the work one long, protected day: time to go deep, rest, and return, with lunch on the coast in the middle. No opening everything up on a Tuesday and closing it again by ten to the hour.
Day Intensive
Monday, 10am to 3pm · Shakti Ranch, Malibu
One woman, one day, the whole of Angela’s attention. Your day includes:
- A 15-minute intake call before your day
- Two hours with the herd, 10 to 12
- Lunch at Neptune’s Net on the coast, 12 to 1
- Two more hours with the herd, 1 to 3
- Time to unpack the work together, on the land
$2,500 · a full day at the ranch
At Shakti Ranch · Malibu
Healing with horses
The herd holds what talk alone sometimes can’t. Somatic grief and nervous-system work, outdoors and unhurried.
Equine-Assisted Session
Somatic Support · Shakti Ranch, Malibu
Somatic grief and nervous-system work alongside horses, guided by Angela. No riding and no horse experience needed. Just you, the herd, and what shows up.
$450 · 75 minutes
Attachment-Focused EMDR
For the grief that hasn’t moved
Working at the nervous-system level, in Laurel Parnell’s attachment-focused model. Gentler and more relational than standard EMDR, built for pain that lives in early relationship as much as in single events.
EMDR Session
Attachment-Focused EMDR · Licensed in CA, WA & AZ
We will not sit across from each other recounting trauma in detail. We work in conversation, resourced, and in small pieces, so your system can finish what it wasn’t able to before. Same rate and packages as weekly sessions, just this modality.
$350 · per session, same packages as above
The Attachment Grief Framework
Four ways in, one direction
Attachment-Focused EMDR. Working at the nervous-system level where grief resides, drawing on Laurel Parnell’s model.
Mother Hunger® Framework. Naming and tending the grief of maternal absence. Angela is a trained facilitator of the framework created by Kelly McDaniel.
Grief & Attachment Work. Exploring how your early relational history shapes the way you process every loss.
Equine-Assisted Healing. The relationship with the horse becomes a somatic entry point for what words can’t reach.
“She holds the kind of space I wished I’d had when my mom died. No matter where you are in your journey, Angela helps to pull you out of stuck thinking to forward feeling.”
Alicia Easter · Google Review
“Angela is amazing. I would never have come this far in my healing journey had it not been for the work we’ve done together. She is kind, empathetic, funny and relatable. I feel so fortunate to have found such a knowledgeable and caring therapist.”
“Angela has been such a gift, not only for me but also for my family. She has helped me navigate deep loss and grief. Her humor is refreshing and relatable, which makes me feel less alone. I can’t recommend Angela enough.”
“I was blessed to work with Angela in her Mother Hunger® class. It was a great experience in my healing journey.”
“Angela is easily one of the most supportive, genuine, kind, funny, and nurturing people I’ve ever met. She is honest, encouraging, and uplifting in all she does.”
Common questions about working with Angela
Do you take insurance?
No. This work is private pay, and that is a deliberate choice: nothing about your grief goes to an insurance company, no diagnosis is required for your record, and the pace of the work is set by you, not by a session cap. If your plan includes out-of-network benefits, reimbursement can be worth asking your insurer about. Bring the question to the free call if you want to talk it through.
Is it too soon after my loss? What if it has been years?
Neither. Some women come three weeks after the funeral. Some come thirty years later, when a new loss wakes up an old one. Grief does not expire, and there is no deadline you have missed. If you are unsure whether now is your time, that is a good thing to bring to the free call.
What is the difference between weekly sessions and a Day Intensive?
Weekly sessions give the work steady company over time. A Day Intensive gives it one long, protected day at the ranch, which some women prefer to opening everything up and closing it again every week. Neither is better. The right one is the one your life can actually hold, and Angela will tell you honestly which she recommends on the free call.
What is the difference between a grief coach and a grief therapist?
A grief therapist provides clinical mental-health treatment, while a grief coach offers structured, forward-focused support and tools for living with loss. Angela is a licensed trauma therapist who also works as a cash-pay grief and trauma coach, so she can meet you in whichever way fits your needs.
Do you offer online grief coaching for women?
Yes. Grief and trauma coaching is available online to women anywhere, and in-person equine work is held at Shakti Ranch in Malibu. Everything begins with a free 15-minute conversation.
Is there a coach who specializes in the mother wound and grief together?
Yes. Angela works with grief, mother loss, and the mother wound together, drawing on attachment-focused EMDR, somatic and equine-assisted work, and the Mother Hunger® framework created by Kelly McDaniel.
How much does grief coaching with Angela cost, and how do I start?
Sessions are $350, with packages of three ($1,050), six ($2,100), and ten ($3,500). Equine sessions are $450 and the Day Intensive is $2,500. You start with a free 15-minute conversation, no pressure and no intake forms.
Not ready for 1:1? Start here · $29
The Grief & Trauma Workbook is Angela’s signature guide: psychoeducation on how grief can be trauma, so you feel a little less alone and begin to develop tools for when the waves of grief come.
Beyond One to One
Retreats, courses & training
The same work, in other shapes: a circle of women and a herd of horses, a small group course, or training for the clinicians who hold this work too.
October 22–25, 2026 · Malibu · Sold by the bed
Healing with Horses
Four days at a private ranch estate above the Pacific, named by National Geographic one of the world’s best grief retreats. With Angela and co-facilitator Claire Bidwell Smith.
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July 18–23, 2027 · Chiang Mai, Thailand
Healing with Elephants
Six days in northern Thailand with a small circle of women who understand loss, including a morning walking alongside rescued elephants. No riding, ever.
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Mother Hunger® · 8-Week Live Course
A live course for women addressing maternal absence, neglect, or emotional unavailability. Next cohort October 2026.
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For Clinicians · Continuing Education
Trauma-informed training for therapists, coaches, and healing professionals, including equine-assisted learning.
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For Companies · Grief in the Workplace
Bring Angela to your team: talks and keynotes, manager workshops, and ongoing grief and loss advisory. In person or virtual.
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An Initial Conversation
A free 15-minute conversation. No pressure, no intake forms. Just a chance to get a sense of each other.
If you’ve been sitting with something and want to understand whether working together makes sense, this is where to start. And if now isn’t the right time, that’s okay too. The door stays open.
Book an Initial Conversation