Grief & Loss Counselling
You may be noticing:
- Waves of sadness, anger, numbness, guilt, or disbelief
- Feeling as though life has changed in ways other people don’t fully understand
- Difficulty concentrating, sleeping, or managing everyday responsibilities
- Feeling disconnected from yourself or others
- Grief that comes and goes unexpectedly, even long after a loss
- Pressure to be “doing better” or to move forward before you feel ready
- Struggling to make sense of what life looks like now
- Feeling alone in an experience that is difficult to put into words
Grief does not follow a predictable timeline, and there is no single right way to experience loss.
Loss can affect our emotions, bodies, relationships, routines, identity, and sense of what we expected life to be. Counselling can offer a place to slow down, make room for what you are experiencing, and find your own way of carrying what has changed.
Grief counselling may support you with:
- The death of someone important to you
- Anticipatory grief and serious illness
- The end of a relationship or separation
- Pregnancy loss or reproductive loss
- Loss connected to health, ability, or chronic illness
- Changes in family roles or relationships
- Loss of a job, home, community, or sense of belonging
- Pet loss
- Major life transitions that involve both beginnings and endings
- Grief connected to experiences that others may not fully recognize or understand
- Making space for difficult or conflicting emotions
- Understanding how grief is affecting you emotionally and physically
- Finding ways to stay connected to what or who you have lost
- Navigating changes in identity, roles, or relationships
- Coping with reminders, anniversaries, and unexpected waves of grief
- Finding support when others seem to expect you to move on
- Reconnecting gradually with relationships, routines, and parts of life that matter to you
- Making room for both grief and moments of connection, meaning, or enjoyment
There is no timeline for grief
Grief can look very different from one person to another. It may feel intense and consuming, quiet and distant, or change from one day to the next. You may experience sadness alongside relief, anger, love, guilt, gratitude, numbness, or even moments of happiness.
Counselling is not about helping you forget, “get over” a loss, or move through a set of stages in the correct order. Instead, therapy can provide space to understand what the loss means to you, attend to what you need, and gradually find ways to live alongside what has changed.
Depending on your needs and the therapist you work with, counselling may include conversation, Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, Narrative Therapy, mindfulness, and other trauma-informed approaches, particularly when loss has also involved traumatic or overwhelming experiences.
Ready to take the next step?
You do not need to know exactly what you need from grief counselling before you begin. Therapy can offer a place to be with what has happened and explore what support might look like for you.
Grief & loss counselling is offered by: