Grief

Grief does not move through tidy stages, and it does not conclude on a schedule. It arrives in waves, often at inconvenient moments, and it can feel just as strong months later as it did at the start.

Therapy is not an attempt to hurry that or resolve it. It is a place to put grief down for an hour, say the parts you edit out for everyone else, and find a way of carrying it that leaves room for the rest of your life.

Grief is not only bereavement

• Death of someone close to you
• The end of a marriage or long relationship
• Loss of health, mobility, or independence
• Loss of a job, role, or sense of identity
• Estrangement — grieving someone still living
• Losses others may not treat as significant

How we work

Mostly, we make room. Alongside that, mindfulness-based approaches help with the waves that arrive unannounced, and Family Systems Therapy can be useful when a loss has changed the shape of a whole family — as loss usually does.