A Two-Day Grief Intensive on Lake Michigan

For Life After a Death

When someone dies, the world keeps moving like nothing happened. You go back to work. You answer texts. You say "I'm fine" until the words stop meaning anything.

But grief doesn't work on the world's schedule. It needs time, room… somewhere to go.

That's what this weekend is.

Two Remaining Summer 2026 Dates: Aug 14-15 | Sept 18-19

Why choose a Grief Intensive in Michigan?

Weekly therapy gives you an hour to open something enormous and then close it right back up.

Most grief needs more than that.

An intensive on the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan is two full days of dedicated grief work. No commute home mid-thought. No waiting until next Tuesday to keep going.

You stay in it long enough to actually move through something, with a licensed grief therapist beside you the whole way.

Who is this Grief Intensive for?

This weekend is for adults grieving a death.

A parent, a partner, a child, a sibling, a friend, the person who knew you best.

It's for recent loss, and loss you've been carrying for years. And it's for complicated grief too, the kind that comes after the death of someone who hurt you, where relief and sorrow show up together.

You don’t need to know what to do.

You just need to be willing to spend a weekend with yourself, Lake Michigan, and your inner world.

Carly Pollack, grief therapist, on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Grand Haven.

Hi, I'm Carly.

I'm a grief therapist personally impacted by grief, and I've spent my whole life coming back to this lake. I created this weekend for you because I believe grief deserves time, water, and someone who isn't afraid of being with it.

Learn more about me here →