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Meghan Riordan JARVIS is a Washington DC-based trauma therapist specializing in grief and loss. With over twenty years in the field, Meghan worked in ER’s, a homeless shelter, schools, and clinics before opening her private practice in 2004.
Meghan believes her life’s work to be helping others heal trauma and navigate the grief process. Meghan is trained in a wide variety of trauma treatment modalities including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy with Pat Ogden, Internal Family Systems (IFS) with Dick Schwartz, and EMDR.

With a strong belief that the body is a filter for our life experiences, Meghan partners body and breathwork as well as nutrition into her treatment planning.

In 2016, Meghan provided on-site psychoeducation and long-term therapeutic support for the staff and management of Comet Pizza after the business became the target of a viral hoax that drew an armed gunman, as well as on-going harassment into the restaurant. Meghan is a passionate advocate for grief education and awareness and is committed to increasing our culture’s capacity for understanding and navigating grief.

Meghan lectures and creates group experiences on grief education for professionals, private organizations as well as the public. Meghan runs on-going small-group writing workshops, Grief is My Side Hustle’s Grief Mates: A Writing Workshop, on-line and in-person. Meghan is currently collaborating on a college curriculum course titled, “Everyone Grieves.”

Meghan writes on her blog Grief is My Side Hustle, where she provides psycho-educational articles on grief and loss as well as countless insights gained through her work, and her personal experience of losing her father to cancer in 2017, and her mother suddenly, to a short illness in 2019.