Life’s hardest seasons can leave you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or unsure who you are anymore. From loss of a loved one, a divorce, to job loss or midlife transitons.
Grief has no timeline, and there is no single right way to experience loss. You don’t have to navigate it alone.
If you’re navigating deep grief, you deserve a place where your experience is met with compassion, understanding, and support.
I am a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist (RMFT), Certified in Grief Support, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP), and Certified Mindfulness Practitioner, with continuing education in complex grief. With a background in relationships and family systems, I understand that grief can affect much more than how we feel—it can change our relationships, roles, identity, and sense of what life was supposed to look like.
Grief can follow the death of someone you love, but it can also come with the loss of a relationship, marriage, family structure, career, role, or a former version of yourself. You may be grieving the family life you once knew, adjusting to who you are after divorce or separation, or struggling with changes in identity following a significant life transition.
Counselling can provide a compassionate space to process these experiences, understand how loss is affecting you and your relationships, and explore what adjusting to life after loss may look like for you.
Grief can arise whenever we lose someone—or something—that has been meaningful to us. This may include:
Death of a loved one
Divorce, separation, or the end of a relationship
Difficulty letting go of a significant or deeply intertwined relationship
Estrangement, family conflict, or changes in family relationships
Loss of identity, purpose, or an important role
Job loss or significant career changes
Health changes or changes in your abilities
Major life transitions and unexpected changes
Grief counselling may provide support with:
Understanding your grief and how it is affecting your life and relationships
Processing difficult or complex emotions at a pace that feels manageable
Exploring guilt, shame, anger, regret, or self-blame connected to the loss
Navigating changes in identity, roles, relationships, and everyday life
Making meaning of your experience and exploring what life after loss may look like
Grief is not something you simply “get over.” With time and support, you can begin to understand how to carry your loss while continuing to live alongside it.
Grief and loss are areas of counselling that are especially meaningful to me. Alongside my professional training and experience, I also understand grief from a personal perspective. I have experienced the death of someone I loved, the loss of significant relationships, and the loss of a beloved pet.
These experiences have given me a deep appreciation for how personal grief can be and how differently loss can affect each of us. There is no single timeline or “right” way to grieve.
My hope is to offer a compassionate and supportive place where your grief can be understood and explored at your own pace.
You don’t have to navigate grief alone. Reach out when you’re ready to learn more about grief counselling.
You may be familiar with the five stages of grief described by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Research on bereavement suggests that grief does not unfold as a simple, predictable progression through these stages. People may experience different emotions at different times, several feelings at once, or find that grief returns after periods of greater acceptance. Rather than thinking of grief as a series of steps you need to complete, it may be more helpful to think of these experiences as possible responses to loss that can shift, overlap, and change over time. There is no “right” order for grieving and no timeline you are required to follow.
Maciejewski, P. K., Zhang, B., Block, S. D., & Prigerson, H. G. (2007). An empirical examination of the stage theory of grief. JAMA, 297(7), 716–723.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by grief, struggling to adjust to a significant loss, or finding that life feels different than it did before, you don’t have to navigate it alone.
Grief may follow the death of someone you love, the loss of a relationship or marriage, the death of a beloved pet, a family rupture, health or career changes, or another significant life transition.
As a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist (RMFT) and Certified in Grief Support , I offer a compassionate place to explore your grief, understand how loss is affecting your life and relationships, and make space for the emotions and changes that can come with loss.
Grief has no set timeline. You deserve support wherever you are in the process.
