Tonya M. Andrews, LPC, NCC, CAGCS

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Join date: Jun 10, 2026

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Tonya M. Andrews, LPC, NCC, CAGCS, is a grief and trauma counselor, counselor educator, clinical supervisor, and founder of Learning to Live Again Grief & Trauma Therapy. Her work is grounded in a simple belief: grief is not limited to death. Loss can accompany trauma, relationships, identity, careers, aging, caregiving, life transitions, and the many unexpected ways our lives change.

As a Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist, Tonya has worked extensively with grieving individuals, first responders, veterans, healthcare professionals, and others navigating traumatic and non-death loss. She is especially passionate about helping counselors and other helping professionals become more confident in recognizing and responding to grief in all its forms.

Tonya is completing her PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision, where her research examines how counselor educators and clinical supervisors help counselors-in-training develop grief counseling self-efficacy.

Through her clinical work, teaching, research, and writing, Tonya works to expand the way we understand grief—because we never simply “move on” from the experiences that change us. We learn how to move forward with them.

Posts (15)

Aug 16, 2026 ∙ 2 min

The Losses for Which There is No Funeral

Occupational culture, identity, and the grief of losing the uniform There he was—a young police officer who desperately wanted to return to duty. He had survived the shooting. What he had not survived unchanged were the years of calls that came before it. Call after call. Trauma after trauma. Experiences that had accumulated until his nervous system could no longer carry what was being asked of it. He committed himself to therapy. He worked hard. He wanted to heal. And he wanted his life...

Aug 9, 2026 ∙ 2 min

Grief is cultural. So is occupational grief.

Grief is cultural. So is occupational grief. When we talk about multiculturalism in counselor education, we often think about race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, and geographic community. We should. But our understanding of culture cannot stop there. Military members and first responders belong to distinct occupational cultures, and within those cultures are subcultures shaped by branch, department, region, role, and generations of tradition. They have their own language. Their own...

Aug 4, 2026 ∙ 2 min

Grieving what is ahead: Anticipatory Grief

Anticipatory grief is when we grieve long before goodbye.