Counselling for Grief

Your experience of grief is as unique as you are. Only you can speak to the way that your loss has impacted you. A range of feelings from confusion and guilt to resilience and relief can be expected after we experience a loss. Your experience likely extends beyond the 5 Stages of Grief, which is completely normal when you encounter death or ambiguous grief (grieving over someone who is still alive). Some of these feelings are more difficult to resolve and require different ways to cope.

Issues might come up throughout the grieving process when our coping mechanisms no longer work in the ways that they had in the past. Distractions may be less likely to hold your attention, you may have more difficulty focusing, and spontaneous emotions may interrupt your day. These reactions can mean that a part of your grief is unresolved and is resurfacing in seemingly random ways.

Understanding that what we appreciate about life will naturally come to an end may do little to remove the sting of losing someone we care about. Despite traditional assumptions about processing death, there is not a single path that will allow us to grieve our losses effectively. Research has revealed several paths that we follow as we move toward grieving loss. Fortunately (and true to what inspires our practice), your resilience is an amazing element that can support you through this process. Our counselling approach will respect your particular mourning process and rely on this resilience to support you through therapy as you adapt to your loss.