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Aging & Life Chapters

Chapters throughout our lives ask different questions: Who am I now? What still matters to me? What am I ready to let go of? What do I want the next part of my life to look like?
Getting older changes how you see yourself, your relationships, your body, your work, and the future you imagined.
Foxfire Therapy offers a thoughtful, strengths-based space for navigating the emotional and psychological experience of aging. We work with adults moving through midlife and later-life transitions, including changes in identity, work, relationships, health, family roles, and purpose.
Aging does not mean becoming less yourself. We see it as an invitation to become more fully yourself, now.

How aging and life chapters can show up

You may be:
  • Questioning who you are after a major life or career change
  • Adjusting to changes in your body, health, energy, or abilities
  • Navigating menopause, caregiving, retirement, or an empty nest
  • Experiencing grief around loss or changes in people, roles, opportunities, or versions of yourself
  • Feeling pressure to “figure out” what comes next
  • Reconsidering relationships, priorities, or long-held expectations
  • Wondering what gives your life meaning at this stage
  • Feeling invisible, disconnected, or uncertain about your place in the world
  • Beginning a new chapter that is exciting and unsettling at the same time
  • Wanting to age in a way that feels authentic rather than defined by other people’s expectations

Our approach to conversations around aging and life chapters

A new chapter can contain grief and possibility at the same time. Life does not move through neat stages, and neither does identity.
Our work together may involve grieving what is changing while making room to explore what is emerging. We can discuss the stories you have inherited about aging, success, relationships, beauty, productivity, family, and what it means to live a meaningful life.
Depending on what feels right to your next chapter, we may:
  • Make space for grief and ambivalence around change
  • Explore how your identity is evolving
  • Reconnect with values that still feel meaningful—and identify those that no longer fit
  • Examine internalized expectations about aging and achievement
  • Navigate changes in work, family, relationships, and independence
  • Strengthen self-compassion as your needs and capacities change
  • Explore new sources of creativity, connection, pleasure, and purpose
  • Create a vision for the next chapter that feels relevant and authentic for you now
We may draw from narrative, existential, ACT, relational, and strengths-based approaches, always adapting the work to your needs and goals.

Who this work is for

This may be a good fit if you are:
  • Entering midlife or another significant life chapter
  • Reconsidering your identity or priorities
  • Navigating retirement or a career transition
  • Adjusting to changes in family roles or relationships
  • Processing grief or loss
  • Caring for aging parents or other loved ones
  • Thinking differently about your body, health, or mortality
  • Looking for greater meaning and direction in the years ahead
There is no “right” way to grow older. Therapy can offer a place to slow down, take stock, and listen for what your life is asking of you now.

Your story is still unfolding. You don’t have to know the whole next chapter to begin writing it.

Hunter Sunrise

I work with individuals, couples and adolescents navigating life transitions and evolutions—chapters of change that ask us to reimagine who we are. My work often centers on experiences of grief and identity—how we hold what’s been lost, and how we rediscover ourselves in what comes next.

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Hunter Sunrise

I work with individuals, couples and adolescents navigating life transitions and evolutions—chapters of change that ask us to reimagine who we are. My work often centers on experiences of grief and identity—how we hold what’s been lost, and how we rediscover ourselves in what comes next.

Learn More

Hunter Sunrise

I work with individuals, couples and adolescents navigating life transitions and evolutions—chapters of change that ask us to reimagine who we are. My work often centers on experiences of grief and identity—how we hold what’s been lost, and how we rediscover ourselves in what comes next.

Learn More

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