Bereavement & loss

Grief is not an illness, and it doesn't follow stages on schedule. But sometimes loss exceeds what we can metabolise alone — a death that was sudden or complicated, a relationship with the person that was unfinished or difficult, a loss that no one around you quite acknowledges, or grief that has quietly hardened into depression, guilt or numbness that won't shift.

How therapy helps

Grief needs witness. Therapy offers a place where the loss can be spoken about for as long as it needs to be — beyond the point where the world expects you to be over it — and where the more complicated threads can be untangled: anger at the person who died, relief you feel ashamed of, the identity you lost along with them, the conversations that never happened.

Loss here includes more than death: the end of a marriage, of health, of fertility, of a future you had planned. These griefs are real and they respond to the same careful work.

What we'd work on

Making room for the full range of what you feel, including the unacceptable parts; working through what was unresolved; carrying the loss differently rather than "getting over" it; and re-engaging with a life that has been changed by it.