Allison Lindsey Durant
Licensed Professional Counselor
Founder, New Orleans Grief Center
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Allison Lindsey Durant, LPC-S
I developed a passion for helping others on their grief journey after a personal loss resulted in feelings of aloneness and confusion for many years. It was not until after I dealt with the emotions that I was able to see how denying them was impacting my life. Picking up the broken pieces and repairing them, one by one, allowed me to put my heart back together and live a full life.
Grief is a life event we all face eventually. Our society has gotten away from mourning openly so people are more and more likely to suppress their emotions when it comes to grief. There is no way to get OVER grief, you have to get THROUGH it. It is a process.
I founded the New Orleans Grief Center to provide that space where you can take the broken pieces of your heart, examine them, nurture them, and put them back together, leaving seams and scars that represent the work you are doing to heal.
In addition to the New Orleans Grief Center, I have a private practice supporting adolescents and adults with depression, anxiety and substance use disorder.
Education – University of New Orleans
- Master of Education, Counseling, December, 2017
- Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, 1988
Certification
- Licensed Professional Counselor – #7288
- Certified Grief Informed Professional – Evergreen Certifications, 2022
Professional Experience
- Bridge House/Grace House – Program Counselor
- Jewish Family Service (JFS) – Counselor Intern
- Addiction Counseling Education Resources (ACER)– Counselor Intern
- Founder of Motherless Daughters of New Orleans, a support group of girls and women who have experienced the loss of their mother prior to the age of twenty-five
Allison is also a trained in Crisis Intervention, C.P.R. and is an inactive Certified Public Accountant.
Jan Clifford, LPC-S, NCC
My work is existential, in that I help clients find their way to make meaning, and a way
forward, from the challenging experiences and sorrows with which they struggle. My
background in communications, arts, and literature inform my therapy, which is grounded
in mindfulness, spirituality, and creative solutions. I offer a strengths-based approach,
rooted in compassion and kindness. I work with clients to understand feelings, achieve
clarity, find purpose, and integrate their experience of, with the aim of embodying more
enriched, hope-filled lives.
I also work with elderly clients in their care homes with reminiscence therapy, and have a
private practice where I support individuals and couples with relationship, family,
anxiety, and substance use disorder issues.
Education – University of New Orleans, Tulane University
Master of Education, Counseling
Bachelor of General Studies
Concentration in Media Arts & Journalism
Certification
Licensed Professional Counselor, Supervisor – #4189
Nationally Certified Counselor – #883794
Professional Experience
Bridge House/Grace House – Program Counselor, Clinical Director
Addiction Recovery Resources – St. Charles Parish Application Program Counselor
Addiction Recovery Resources New Orleans – Counseling Intern
Phi Kappa Phi – International Honor Society
Jan is also a trained in Crisis Intervention, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and C.P.R .
Allison R. Waldron Counselor Intern
Allison R. Waldron – Counselor Intern
Grief hits you when you least expect it. It is like a wave that crashes onto you and knocks you off your feet. While going through it myself, I found that I had to remind myself of who I was and lean on others not be knocked over. This is what led me back to school to earn a Master’s in Counseling. No one has to go through grief alone.