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Allison Lindsey Durant, LPC-S
Education – University of New Orleans
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Master of Education, Counseling, December, 2017
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Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, 1988
Certification
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Licensed Professional Counselor – #7288
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Certified Grief Informed Professional – Evergreen Certifications, 2022
​​Professional Experience
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Bridge House/Grace House – Program Counselor
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Jewish Family Service (JFS) – Counselor Intern
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Addiction Counseling Education Resources (ACER)– Counselor Intern
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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.
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​Allison is also a trained in Crisis Intervention, C.P.R. and is an inactive Certified Public Accountant.
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My Story
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.