Grief

The first thing worth saying is honest: grief does not automatically require therapy. Research on bereavement shows that most people, given time and their own supports, adapt to loss with their own resources — resilience is the most common outcome, not the exception. Coming to sessions is not an admission that you are grieving wrongly. People come when the loss has no one left to be spoken to about, when the waves stop softening, when sadness has brought unexpected companions — guilt, anger, relief that feels shameful — or when everyone around has quietly decided you should be over it.

Sessions offer what grief actually needs: a place where the loss can be laid down at full weight, without being managed, rushed or corrected. Words for the parts that have none yet. Room for the contradictions — missing someone and being angry at them, loving them and breathing easier. And, in time, help rebuilding a relationship with what was lost that lets you carry it rather than be pinned under it. The pace is entirely yours; there is no schedule to meet.

One situation deserves specific care: when grief stays stuck. The World Health Organization now recognises prolonged grief — a persistent longing and preoccupation that continues to dominate life and impair it, well beyond what those around you or your own culture would expect. It is not weakness and not rare, and it responds to structured therapeutic work. If your loss is years old and still fills every room, that is precisely a reason to come — not a reason for shame.