Psychology

Grief & Loss

Losing someone or something significant can leave you feeling lost, numb, or overwhelmed in ways that are hard to explain. Grief doesn't follow a timeline, and it doesn't always look like sadness. Therapy offers a space to process your loss and find your way forward.
Trauma & Sudden Loss

When loss happens without warning, it can be shocking in a way that goes beyond ordinary grief - leaving you with intrusive thoughts, difficulty sleeping, or a sense that your world no longer feels safe. Therapy works gently and at your pace to help your nervous system settle and begin to heal.
Cumulative & Ongoing Loss

When losses pile up (one after another, or alongside each other) the weight can feel relentless. You might feel depleted, numb, or like you simply can't absorb any more. Therapy helps restore your emotional capacity and process each loss with care.
Mood, Anxiety & Stress

Grief and life disruption can pull you into a heaviness that affects your motivation and sleep, or into a constant undercurrent of worry and unease. Your mind and body may feel weighed down, or stuck in high alert. These feelings are real and they are treatable. Therapy helps calm the threat response and reconnect you with what matters.
Identity & Life Transitions

Change (even change you chose) can leave you struggling to find your footing, uncertain about your values, roles, or direction. Relationship shifts, new stages, and major transitions can quietly shake your sense of who you are. Therapy supports you in adapting, rebuilding stability, and reconnecting with a coherent sense of self.
Relational Loss

The end of a significant relationship (through separation, estrangement, or disconnection) is a real loss, even when others don't always recognise it as one. The grief, confusion, and self-doubt that follow deserve care. Therapy helps you process the ending and understand your patterns in relationships.
Career, Role & Financial Loss

Losing a job, a role, or your ability to do something you valued can deeply affect your sense of self and purpose - and financial hardship carries its own emotional weight, from shame to the constant strain of instability. Therapy won't change your circumstances directly, but it can help you process the impact and rebuild your sense of meaning and control.
Relocation, Migration & Belonging

Moving (especially across cultures or countries) involves leaving behind far more than a place. The grief of disconnection, the effort of adaptation, and the longing for familiarity are all real. Therapy supports you in adjusting, building belonging, and holding onto what matters.
Health-Related Loss & Change

A diagnosis, illness, or change in physical capacity can quietly rewrite who you thought you were and what your future looks like. The grief that comes with health-related loss is real, even when it goes unacknowledged. Therapy supports you in processing this with compassion and care.

Therapeutic approaches

Complicated Grief Therapy (CGT) is a structured, evidence-based therapeutic approach designed to support individuals experiencing prolonged or intensified grief that significantly impacts daily functioning and adjustment following a loss.
CGT integrates elements of cognitive-behavioural therapy, attachment-informed interventions, and structured grief processing strategies. It may include guided exploration of the loss, support in processing emotions related to the relationship with the deceased or lost object of attachment, and assistance in rebuilding engagement with meaningful activities and life roles.
This approach may be adapted to both death-related grief and other significant non-death losses, including relationship loss, identity loss, or major life transitions where grief responses are persistent or complex.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based psychological approach that explores the relationship between thoughts, emotions, and behaviours.
In the context of grief and loss, CBT may assist individuals in identifying patterns of thinking that contribute to distress, such as guilt, self-blame, catastrophising, or difficulty adjusting to change. It also supports the development of practical coping strategies to manage emotional distress and re-engage with daily life following loss.
CBT does not aim to eliminate grief, but to support adaptive adjustment and reduce patterns that may intensify or prolong distress.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a mindfulness- and values-based therapeutic approach that supports psychological flexibility in the presence of difficult thoughts and emotions.
Within grief and loss work, ACT may assist individuals in making space for painful emotional experiences while continuing to move toward actions aligned with personal values and meaning. This may include reconnecting with life following loss, tolerating emotional pain without avoidance, and building a meaningful life alongside grief rather than in opposition to it.
DBT-informed skills may be used to support emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness.
These skills can be particularly helpful when grief or loss is experienced alongside intense emotional responses, difficulty managing distress, impulsivity, or relational strain. Skills may be introduced in a flexible and supportive way, depending on individual needs and readiness.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) draws on existing strengths, resources, and coping strategies to support practical and achievable steps toward change.
Rather than focusing primarily on problems, this approach may help individuals identify moments of resilience, exceptions to distress, and personally meaningful goals, particularly during periods of grief, transition, or adjustment.
Mindfulness-based strategies may be used to support grounding, present-moment awareness, and a different relationship with difficult thoughts, emotions, and bodily experiences.
Within grief and loss work, mindfulness can assist individuals in noticing and tolerating emotional waves without becoming overwhelmed, while supporting gentle reconnection with the present moment.