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Specialized
Grief Counselling for:
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Loss & Bereavement
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Disenfranchised Grief
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Traumatic Grief
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There are no words that can fully capture what you’ve lost.
How disorienting and heavy it can feel, or the silence that is left behind.
Grief is a profoundly difficult experience that brings us face-to-face with overwhelming uncertainty and instability.
Causing changes in our daily routines, relationships, as well as our sense of meaning and identity.
This can be further complicated by the circumstances, timing, relationships and any previous or existing loss or trauma.
Grief can manifest in various forms
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Loss of a Family Member, Loved One or Pet
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Traumatic Losses, Suicide and Homicide
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Medical Diagnosis, Injury & Chronic Conditions
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Major Life Transitions & Moves
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Divorce, Breakups, Friendship endings
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Betrayal Trauma, Neglect & Emotional Abuse
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Job Changes or Losses
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Caregiving and Anticipatory Grief
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Grieving the Loss of a Dream or Life Plan
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Loss of Personal Safety, or Trust after Trauma
Therapy can offer a safe space to explore these experiences and feelings, develop coping strategies, and find ways to honour ourselves and the memory of what's been lost.
You don’t have to cope with it alone.
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Grieving is a personal experience that affects people differently and there is no right or wrong way through it.
Here are some common signs of grief:
1. Isolation & withdrawing socially: Wanting to be alone, avoiding social gatherings and activities, preferring to isolate from friends and family especially when you don't feel your grief is understood.
2. Difficulty concentrating or making decisions: Trouble focusing on work or daily tasks, remembering details or making plans.
3. Feeling angry or irritable: Frustration and anger at the unfairness of the situation, and at oneself, others or even one's faith.
4. Guilt or regret: Feelings of guilt about things left unsaid or undone, feeling like you should have done things differently and lack of closure.
5. Insomnia or lack of sleep: Trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or experiencing nightmares related to the loss.
6. Loss of appetite or overeating: Changes in appetite, digestion, routine and energy levels as a result of the emotional upheaval.
7. Denial or disbelief that the loss has occurred: Difficulty accepting the reality and full impact of the loss, and the feeling that it just can't be true.
8. Numbness or feeling emotionally disconnected: The feeling of being a spectator in one’s own life, everything appears as if in slow-motion.
9. Reduction in energy or motivation: Loss of interest, and motivation to do things that used to be enjoyable or necessary, difficulty with daily tasks.
10. Intense sadness or depression: A deep feeling of sorrow, despair, or hopelessness that can be overwhelming and difficult to shake off.
Everyone experiences grief differently, and these are just some common signs that someone might experience.
It is important to seek professional help if the grief becomes overwhelming or begins to interfere with your daily functioning.
Approach to Grief Counselling
Grief is a very personal experience and there is no single approach that works for everyone.
I offer a space to process the full spectrum of grief-related emotions, memories, and meaning without judgment or pressure to “move on.” Together, we will work toward helping you move from feeling overwhelmed or stuck in the trauma of loss toward greater integration, resilience, and connection to life as it exists now.
This might include
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Managing intense emotions such as sadness, anger, or guilt.
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Finding healthy coping mechanisms.
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Navigating the ways and places that grief arises and finding ways to honour and remember.
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Rebuilding your sense of normalcy and finding ways to move forward.
My approach is grounded in empathy, evidence-based care, and respect for your individual pace and process. We recognize that grief affects every part of life, emotionally, physically, relationally, and existentially, and that healing is rarely linear.
Drawing from a range of grief-informed and meaning-centred therapeutic approaches tailored to your needs. These may include person-centred, emotionally focused, narrative, trauma-informed therapies, and art-therapies among others. Sessions can involve reflection, storytelling, emotional processing, and exploring how loss has changed your relationship to yourself, others, and the future.
Many other models of grief exist and can be helpful including:
Kübler-Ross Stages - Originally developed to describe the experience of people facing terminal illness, this model includes; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance as common emotions (not a linear process).
Worden's Tasks of Mourning - A proactive, action-based model focused on; accepting the reality of the loss, processing the pain, adjusting to a world without them, and finding an enduring connection.
Love with no place to go - It is the unspent love and affection we still want to give, manifesting as tears, a lump in the throat or a hollow chest.
Grief is not something we simply leave behind. It is an adaptive response to profound change, one that asks us to slowly make sense of a reality we did not choose. Healing does not erase loss, but can allow us to carry it differently.
If you feel ready to begin therapy, I'm here to support you.
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