Hassan A.

Hassan trained as a pastoral counselor and spent several years doing community counseling before moving to Chicago. He has worked with people carrying the intersection of faith and personal crisis: the grief that happens when a death makes you question everything, the identity fracture when your faith tradition and your lived experience stop fitting together, the specific weight of the first years after a major life rupture when everything familiar is gone. Hassan became a Keeper because the work he was already doing needed a better infrastructure. He works from a deeply respectful relationship with belief and a genuine openness to doubt, to questioning, and to sitting with people who are not sure what they believe anymore. He will not resolve your theology for you. He will not push you toward or away from faith. He will sit with you in the honest middle of it. He is also one of the Keepers most experienced with grief, particularly the grief of the first year after a major loss, and the grief that arrives out of order.

• 01The first year after a loss. The one nobody designs grief support for
• 02Faith and doubt existing at the same time, without a safe space to admit that
• 03The weight of major life transitions: the loneliness, the displacement, the grief of what was left
• 04Grief for parents who were also the bridge to a whole world now gone
• 05The cost of code-switching between work, family, faith, and self

“I have sat with people who were certain in their faith and people who were not certain of anything. I have never found those conversations to be very different. Everyone is trying to find solid ground. I know how to sit in uncertain ground with you.”

Hassan is a peer supporter with pastoral counseling training. He is not a licensed therapist. For clinical grief, depression, or crisis, The Bridge provides licensed clinicians, matched by hand for fit. Hassan will make the introduction and stay in your corner throughout. Learn about The Bridge →