How Counselling Can Help with Grief and Loss

• Understanding grief

• Different experiences of loss

• Grief after separation and relationship breakdown

• Grief during major life transitions

• How counselling can help

• Art therapy and grief

• When to seek support

Grief can feel deeply painful, confusing, and isolating. You may be grieving the death of someone close to you, the end of a relationship, changes in family life, illness, identity changes, or another significant loss. However grief shows up, your response is valid. Grief and loss counselling offers a gentle, supportive space to talk about what has happened, understand your emotions, and begin to find your way through this difficult time.

Counselling can help you make sense of grief at your own pace. Together, we may explore feelings such as sadness, anger, guilt, numbness, loneliness, or yearning, while also gently supporting emotional regulation, self-compassion, and connection with what continues to matter in your life.

I use the following modalities to support my clients :

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): supporting you to make room for painful feelings, notice difficult thoughts with more compassion, and take small steps guided by your values.

• Expressive art therapy: offering creative and non-verbal ways to process grief when words feel difficult or not enough.

• Play therapy for children and sandplay therapy: helping children express feelings, understand loss, and build coping skills in a safe and developmentally appropriate way.