Grief & Loss

Grief emerges in response to unhoped-for life changes, including the illness or death of someone you love, or the loss of something meaningful like a job, a friend, or a romantic relationship.

It doesn’t unfold in a linear way. It may shift over time, and can include moments of connection as well as disorientation, absence, or intensity. From the early days of feeling unmoored and overcome, to years down the line when integration seems complete – and then it hits you again out of nowhere.

In psychotherapy, we make space for the experience of loss itself, getting to know its signposts, as well as the ongoing relationship you may have with what has been lost.

We may look at how grief is held in the body, how it intersects with other parts of your life, and what feels difficult to express or stay with.

The aim is not to resolve grief, but to develop a way of living alongside it that feels manageable and meaningful.

In this work, you may come across ways of understanding grief that move beyond older ideas of “letting go.”

Contemporary approaches—shaped by thinkers such as Robert Neimeyer, Dennis Klass, Pauline Boss, and others—often speak about meaning-making, continuing bonds, and forms of loss that don’t have clear social recognition, or resolution (disenfranchised grief).

You might also hear language such as the dual process of grief, reflecting how we move between engaging with loss and attending to life as it continues.

These frameworks are not something you need to learn or adopt, but they can offer helpful ways of making sense of your experience, especially when grief feels unfamiliar, uneven, or difficult to manage.