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Grief & Bereavement Counselling

Counselling for grief, bereavement and the impact of loss.

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Grief is Not One Experience

Grief is one of the most personal – and yet universal – experiences we can go through.

It can appear as sadness, anger, numbness, or even relief. It changes shape from day to day.

Therapy offers a space to speak, remember, and find new ways of living alongside what’s been lost.

Grief takes many forms. It can follow the death of someone close, but also the end of a relationship, the loss of a dream, a pet, a job, or a sense of identity. Every form of loss asks something different of us, and every person grieves in their own way.

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Carrying Memory in a New Way

We can often think of grief as something to “get over” or to be solved. 

Grief is not only about letting go, it’s also about how we continue. Many people fear that healing means forgetting, or that feeling better would be a kind of betrayal. But grief can change shape without erasing what mattered.

In therapy we often discover another possibility: that memory can be carried differently, with less rawness and more steadiness. Counselling and psychotherapy can help you speak about the relationship, the love, and the pain — so that life can move again, while what was precious remains held.

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How Therapy Helps with Grief

Therapy offers a place to speak, to remember, and to slowly transform your relationship with your grief. 

Each of our psychotherapists is trained to listen with care and depth – at your own pace – helping you explore the unique shape of your loss and find new ways of living beside it.

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Our Approach to Grief and Bereavement Counselling

Grief does not follow a simple path, and loss is never experienced in exactly the same way by two people.

In our approach we treat each person as singular. Therapy offers a space to speak about the loss, to make sense of what it has stirred, and to work with its effects at a pace that respects the individual rather than forcing them into a formula.

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Written & clinically reviewed by: Colin McDonnell — MA, MA, BA, APPI, ICP, M.Ps.S.I.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist & Clinic Director

Last updated: May 2026