Grief does not follow the tidy stages it is often described in. It arrives in waves, disappears for a week, and returns in a supermarket aisle eighteen months later. There is no schedule, and there is no point at which you are supposed to be finished.
What makes grief harder is how quickly the world expects you to be functional again.
Grief is not only bereavement
Loss takes many forms, and several of them go unacknowledged by the people around you:
- The death of someone close
- The end of a marriage or a long relationship
- Miscarriage or pregnancy loss
- Losing health, mobility, or a future you had planned
- Migration — leaving a country, a language, a whole life
- Estrangement from family, where the person is alive but gone
Losses that others do not recognise as losses are often the loneliest to carry.
How I work with grief
Grief is not a problem to be solved, and I will not try to move you through it faster. Much of this work is simply having somewhere the loss can be spoken about at full size, without managing anyone else's discomfort.
Where it is useful, we also look at what has become tangled with the grief — guilt, anger, things unsaid, relief that feels forbidden. These are common and rarely voiced.
For clients where faith is part of how loss is understood, that belongs in the room too, on your terms.
What sessions look like
50 minutes on Google Meet. Some people want weekly sessions for a period; others want somewhere to return to occasionally, around anniversaries or difficult dates. Both are fine, and you do not have to decide at the start.
Start with a free 15-minute call
No forms, no pressure — a short conversation to see whether this feels right for you.
Book a free intro call