Grief Therapy · Online · In English

You shouldn't have to grieve in translation

Professional grief support, in English, from a psychologist who thinks in Spanish too. A space at your pace — even when the funeral happened on a screen, the goodbye happened without you, or no one around you understands what you lost.

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First assessment session

A first session to understand your situation and shape the process together. You decide with real information, not blindly.

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60 min · Video call

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When grief crosses a border

Grief doesn't end when the funeral does. It's heavier when you weren't there for it.

Maybe you found out over a phone call. Maybe you watched the burial through a screen, sitting in a country where no one around you knew who you'd just lost. Maybe your family held the velorio, the misa, the novena — and you sat with none of that, in an apartment where those rituals don't exist. Grief doesn't wait for a visa, a work schedule, or a flight you couldn't take.

And you may be carrying it in English — at work, in a life you built far from home — while the loss itself lives in Spanish, in a language the people around you don't share. That gap is its own weight. Therapy shouldn't ask you to grieve in translation, or explain what a novena is before you can talk about what you actually lost.

Ricardo De Castro King — Clinical psychologist

Who's with you

I'm Ricardo, and I understand both sides of this

I'm a clinical psychologist with more than 15 years accompanying people through loss, trained in systemic family therapy. I live and practice from Barranquilla, Colombia, and I work with clients online, in English. I'm not asking you to translate your grief for me — I think in Spanish too, and I understand what it means to lose someone across a border, a screen, or a language.

Grief is easier to carry with someone beside you. If this feels like the moment, let's take the first step together — at your pace, no strings attached.

Master's in Systemic Family Therapy

Universidad Simón Bolívar

Clinical psychologist

More than 15 years of experience

University professor

Teaching and research in psychology

Systemic-relational approach

Evidence-based

Professional License 106127 (COLPSIC)

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My approach

How I support grief in therapy

I work from a systemic-relational approach: I don't treat your grief as a symptom to correct, but as part of your history, your bonds, and — for many of the people I work with — a loss that also crosses a border.

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Your pace, no forced stages

Grief isn't linear, and it doesn't run on anyone's calendar — not your family's back home, and not the schedule of the life you built here. We work from wherever you actually are today.

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The bond doesn't disappear, it changes shape

This isn't about forgetting or "moving on." We look for a place for that bond in your life now — one that lets you remember without the distance turning into guilt.

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Room for your grief too

Often you're the one making the calls, translating for the family, holding everyone else together — while your own grief waits its turn. We make space for yours as well.

How we begin

A clear first step, no pressure

You schedule your assessment session

Message me on WhatsApp or leave your details in the form. We'll book a first 60-minute video session, at a reduced rate (50% off).

We talk through what happened

In that first session, I listen to your story — what you lost, and how you've been carrying it, wherever in the world you're carrying it from. No rushed diagnoses, no jargon: just understanding, together, what you need.

We decide the process together

You decide with real information, not blindly. If it feels right, we build a process suited to you. If not, I'll still point you toward what you need.

Your first step

Start with an assessment session

A first session to get to know each other and shape your process. At a reduced rate, so you decide with real information — not out of obligation.

US$25US$49.9950%

60 minutes · Video call · 100% confidential

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Want to explore first?

Want to understand your grief better?

If you want to keep learning while you decide, you can start here. There are free grief resources, in English, waiting for you.

Free grief resources

This will take you to MomentoVital, my open resource hub.

Prefer to talk first?

Write to me, and I'll answer personally

If you're not ready to schedule yet and would rather tell me what's going on first, message me on WhatsApp or leave your details below. I answer personally, usually within 24 hours, no obligation.

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📍 Online · Barranquilla, Colombia

🕑 Mon–Fri 8am–7pm · Sat 9am–1pm (Colombia time)

If you're in an emotional crisis or having thoughts of harming yourself, please seek help right away: in Colombia, Line 106; in the U.S., call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline); or the mental health or emergency line in your own city. You are not alone, and you deserve support right now.