Grief doesn’t need
a finish line.
It needs a framework.
I am Dr. Heather Taylor, PsyD, a licensed grief therapist, keynote speaker, and creator of the STAY Framework. I built a grief model that actually matches how grief works and I bring it to stages, clinical training rooms, virtual therapy sessions, and podcast mics across the country.
I got tired of watching grieving people
apologize for grieving.
The five stages model gave people a map. The problem is, grief does not move in straight lines. As a licensed grief therapist, I spent years in the therapy room watching people decide they were failing at grief because it did not look the way they had been told it would. So I built something better.
The STAY Framework is a research-informed, clinically grounded grief model that honors complexity, names the losses nobody talks about, and gives people permission to stay in the experience rather than rush through it. I bring grief-informed care to keynotes at national conferences, professional training days, grief summits, and community spaces. Featured on the APA 2026 main stage.
The STAY Framework
Grief does not need a roadmap. It needs a framework. STAY is an orienting stance, not a checklist, built for the full, complicated, nonlinear reality of what it actually means to carry a loss and keep living. It applies in therapy rooms, boardrooms, and living rooms. And it starts with four deceptively simple ideas.
There is a way in for wherever you are
Whether you need a grief keynote speaker for your stage, grief-informed care training for your team, or a virtual grief therapist for yourself, I have built a path for all of it.
Three podcasts. One thread.
Because grief shows up everywhere: in the grief therapy room, in culture, in the workplace, and in every story we have ever loved. Three podcasts covering grief from every angle.
the Pages
Grief work does not stop when the session ends.
Free community space, a newsletter, monthly webinars, and resources built for people who are actually in it.
Grief doesn’t come with instructions.
This is the next best thing.
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