Counselling for Bereavement, Grief & Loss
Grief isn’t only about death — it can arise after any significant loss or life change. This might include the end of a relationship, family estrangement, moving home, shifts in identity, career changes, fertility struggles, or other losses that often go unrecognised.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, disoriented, or unsure how to move forward, therapy can offer a supportive space to make sense of what’s happening and how grief may be showing up for you — emotionally, physically, and relationally.
☑︎ Supporting someone else through illness, change, or loss — while quietly needing space to be held.
☑︎ Experiencing grief that feels invisible or unacknowledged by others (sometimes called disenfranchised grief).
☑︎ Changes to your life or identity that are hard to adjust to — or stirring up emotions that are difficult to name.
☑︎ Mourning a hope, dream, or version of life that didn’t come to be.
Many of the people I work with notice some of the following:
☑︎ Feeling disoriented, angry, or unsure how to move forward after a recent or past loss.
☑︎ Waves of grief, sadness, or anxiety following a death or non-death loss.
☑︎ Losing a parent, sibling, or child — and wondering who you are now.
☑︎ Lingering sadness or heaviness after a life transition, even if it was expected or “positive.”
Common experiences of grief
Therapy gives you space to explore these feelings, notice patterns, and begin to reconnect with yourself in ways that feel grounded and compassionate. I take a human-centred approach to grief. You don’t need a diagnosis, timeline, or “reason” for your grief to be valid. Whether your loss is recent or long past, named or unnamed, visible or private, it deserves space and care.
How I support adults through bereavement, grief & loss
Therapy with me is a collaborative, client-paced process. Together we can:
☑︎ Understand the impact of grief on your mind, body, and relationships.
☑︎ Explore how past experiences shape your responses to loss.
☑︎ Gently work with the intense emotions, confusion, and disconnection.
☑︎ Begin to find ways to live alongside loss while reconnecting with meaning, connection, and self-trust.
I bring warmth, curiosity, and clinical expertise to our sessions — alongside my own lived experience of grief, which informs the care and presence I offer. I don’t believe we “move on” from loss, but we can learn to move with and live alongside it.
Bereavement, Grief & Loss in your 20s and 30s
If you’re bereaved in your late teens, twenties, or early thirties — or grieving an earlier loss during this period of your life — you may be navigating grief alongside all the usual pressures of young adulthood.
This life stage often comes with uncertainty, comparison, and social expectations. Grief can disrupt your sense of belonging, leaving you feeling out of step with peers or unsure how to relate. You may also be mourning not just a person, but the life you imagined before the loss.
In our work together, you’ll have space to make sense of your experience, honor your emotions, and begin healing at your own pace — without pressure to “move on” or fit someone else’s timeline.
Bereavement, Grief & Loss: Common Questions
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Grief doesn’t just live in our thoughts or emotions. It often shows up as exhaustion, tension, numbness, irritability, anxiety, or a sense that you’re not quite yourself anymore.
Therapy can offer a space to slow down and sit alongside your grief, rather than trying to manage it, explain it away, or hold it together for others. Together, we can gently explore how your loss has affected you — in your body, your relationships, and your sense of who you are now — and find ways to live with that reality without feeling overwhelmed by it.
There’s no pressure to “process” anything quickly or to feel a certain way. We move at a pace that feels manageable.
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I don’t treat grief as something to be talked through logically or resolved with insight alone.
Alongside making sense of your experience, we pay attention to how grief is held physically — through tightness, shutdown, restlessness, fatigue, or feeling on edge. Often, people have learned to cope by pushing feelings down or staying busy, and grief finds ways to surface anyway.
Our work might involve noticing what happens in your body, where things feel stuck or heavy, and gently allowing space for what hasn’t yet had room.
You can also find out more about my approach to grief in my book Speaking Grief.
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Yes — and this is something I see often.
Grief can follow many kinds of loss: relationship endings, family estrangement, fertility struggles, changes in identity or health, or the loss of a future you once expected. These experiences can be deeply painful, especially when others don’t recognise them as “real” losses.
Therapy offers a place where these forms of grief don’t need to be minimised, justified, or compared. Your experience matters, even if it has been misunderstood or dismissed by others.
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Yes. Many people come to therapy years after a loss, often saying, “I thought I was over this.”
Sometimes grief resurfaces when life slows down, when something changes, or when you finally have enough safety to feel what wasn’t possible at the time. You might notice old patterns, emotions, or questions appearing that don’t seem to make sense on the surface.
Therapy can offer space to gently turn towards what’s still there — without reopening wounds or forcing anything — and to understand how the loss may still be shaping your life now.
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You can find more detail about how I work, the kinds of difficulties I support, and what to expect from therapy here.
If you have practical questions about starting therapy, session structure, confidentiality, or fees, these are covered here.
You’re also welcome to get in touch if you’d prefer to ask a question directly or explore whether working together might feel right for you.