Help with grief and bereavement
Grief is not a disorder and does not need curing. Sometimes, though, it gets stuck — and stuck grief is something that can be helped.
When grief needs support
Most grief moves, slowly, with time and people around you. It is worth getting help when it has stopped moving: when the death itself intrudes as an image rather than a memory, when you cannot go near the house, the ward, or the road, or when years have passed with no change at all.
- A traumatic or sudden death
- Grief you had to postpone to keep functioning
- Complicated relationships with the person who died
- Loss of a child, or a stillbirth
Trauma and grief are separated
Where the death was traumatic, the traumatic memory can block the grieving. EMDR is used to reprocess the traumatic fragment so that ordinary grieving — which is not a problem to solve — can resume.
No timetable is imposed
Nobody here will tell you what stage you should be at. Sessions go at your pace, and there is no target date for feeling better.
Common questions
Is it too soon to come?+
Rarely. Early support is often about steadying rather than processing, and that is a legitimate use of the sessions.
Will therapy make me forget them?+
No. The aim is that the relationship becomes something you can carry, not something that floors you.
Do you work with pet loss?+
Yes. It is real grief and it is treated as such.
Unhurried, and at your pace
A free fifteen-minute call, with no expectation that you explain everything on it.