Grief therapy is a normal but uncomfortable adaptive response to a significant loss. The changes we undergo during this process are emotional, cognitive, behavioural, and even physical. Grief doesn’t solely refer to the loss of a person (which would be bereavement), it can also refer to the loss of a relationship, role, life transition, or meaningful structure in your life.

Though grief is a natural response, the feelings can be overwhelming, confusing, unpredictable, and deeply uncomfortable. Psychotherapy provides the opportunity to process the impact of the loss and lessen its chokehold on our life.

In session, we honour the discomfort of grief by navigating all the layered emotions, which can include sadness, anger, shame, numbness, and/or confusion- some may even be present at once. The objective of grief work isn’t to move on, but rather to move forward in such a way that honours your life post-loss.

Having experienced the profound loss of my mother in 2020, I can understand and empathize with the complex ugliness of grief and grieving. This loss inspired a direction of my practice, and how I care for others experiencing similar pain. My own experience of losing my mother combined with ongoing study of grief has profoundly influenced how I show up for clients navigating loss.

I hope I am making her proud 😊