Our Values
We offer compassionate, personalized support through individual counseling, group therapy, and grief education. We accept most major insurance plans to make care more accessible during your time of need.
We listen with care, meet you where you are and create a space of understanding and acceptance.
We offer resources, foster connection and help you build community.
We provide you with the tools and space to find strength and heal.
We guide you to find meaning through acceptance, self-discovery creativity and joy.
About The Founder
Behind Every Photo is a Story You Cannot See...
Allison Lindsey (1984)
Allison Lindsey (1984)
Two photos. Four decades apart. A lifetime in between.
This photo was taken just after High School on a trip to Cancun.
While my mom was in a hospital in New Orleans, dying from cancer.
We all knew, but no one talked about it. She encouraged me to go on the trip, knowing how little time she had left.
Four weeks later, she was gone.
It wasn't until 25 years later - sitting in a therapist's office - that I realized I had never truly grieved her death. The therapist made space for my pain, witnessed my growth, and guided me towards healing.
That support was life-changing.
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My therapy inspired me to change careers and open The New Orleans Grief Center - a place where those in pain can heal through individual and group counseling.
The photo on the right is me today - appearing happy and healthy.
There is a lot you cannot see.
The journey from 1984 to 2025 has included a lot of life experiences in which I felt grief - cancer, sobriety, and divorce, to name a few.
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Grief is part of life.
You cannot outrun it. Grief will catch you.
But you CAN get through it.
And you don't have to do it alone.
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Photo Credits: Ellie Hobson Rand, ERPR Public Relations (yes, she took both photos)
Allison Lindsey Durant (2025)
Allison and her mom, Jane (1972)
Our Rates
​A credit card will be requested upon intake.
We ask that you inform us of any changes (expiration, cancelation) so that an active card is on file at all times.​​​​​​
$140-160
If your clinician is a fully licensed clinician (LPC, LCSW)
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*Our fees are a based on 50-minute sessions for individual or couples therapy*
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$100-125
If your clinician is a provisionally licensed master’s level clinician (PLPC, LMSW)
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*Our fees are a based on 50-minute sessions for individual or couples therapy*
$30-100
If your clinician is a master’s level intern
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*Sliding Scale: NOGC offers services from $30 - $100 for those who are court appointed or in need of financial assistance*
Groups, events or retreats are priced individually. Please refer to the specific group, education or workshop for details.
Acceptable Payments:
Grief counseling is a type of professional therapy designed to help you work through the emotions and challenges you may experience during or after any significant transition or loss.
Complete the contact form (include link) to provide information and have any questions answered prior to scheduling or use the request appointment (if possible, include here) to get started.
We treat all kinds of grief, not just death-related grief. The NOGC addresses grief related symptoms that come with relationship loss, identity loss, changes in status or sobriety.
The relationship you develop is very important so the first session is spent getting to know each other. It is a chance for you to ask questions on how the therapist may approach some of what you are experiencing.
The time that you continue to seek treatment is up to you. Your therapist will make a recommendation and you are always able to determine for yourself if this therapy is right for you.
You and your therapist will discuss the treatment approach, how frequently to schedule visits and for how long. All of this is up to you, your therapist will make a recommendation based on the goals you have established.
Therapy sessions are often the space to process difficult emotions and some can experience a sense of relief to have a place to share this. At the NOGC, your emotional health and wellbeing are very important to us and we take care to provide skills to use outside of the sessions.
Yes. Grief is a part of any transition that has a beginning and an ending. We can assist with loss of a pet, job, business, career, empty nesting or addiction.
We have two locations, one in Lakeview (141 W. Harrison Avenue, Suite C - next to Chez Pierre) and one Uptown (8200 Hampson Street, Suite 259-A). We also offer teletherapy services for those living in Louisiana.