Grief doesn’t only arise after the death of a loved one. It can stem from any experience that changes your world and leaves something missing — whether that’s a person, a future you imagined, a role you once held, or a part of your identity. We support individuals navigating many forms of loss, including:

Bereavement (Death of a Loved One)

This includes the loss of a partner, parent, sibling, child, friend, pet, or mentor. Whether the death was sudden or expected, recent or long ago, it can deeply alter your inner world. You might feel shock, disbelief, guilt, anger, relief, or a profound sense of absence — and often, all of these at once.

We also work with those navigating complicated grief, where mourning feels stuck, unresolved, or especially painful due to the nature of the relationship or circumstances of the loss.

Anticipatory Grief

This occurs when you’re grieving before the loss has happened, such as when a loved one is terminally ill or a relationship is clearly ending. You may feel waves of grief, helplessness, or pre-emptive sorrow even while the person or situation is still present. Therapy offers space to acknowledge and process those feelings in real time.

Relationship Loss

Grief doesn’t only follow death — it also follows separation. Breakups, divorce, estrangement, or the slow fading of a friendship can carry immense pain and confusion, especially when the relationship was significant or unresolved.

Some people also grieve a relationship that never existed in the way they needed, such as the longing for a parent’s love, or a version of a partner that never materialised.

Loss of Identity or Role

Major life transitions can cause us to lose touch with who we thought we were. This might happen after retirement, redundancy, becoming a parent, or no longer being one. It can happen after leaving a community or religion, or following a major diagnosis or trauma. You may no longer recognise yourself, and feel grief for the person you once were.

This kind of loss is often invisible to others but deeply felt internally. Therapy can help you explore the meaning of that identity and what it’s like to exist in its absence.

Loss of Health, Function or Ability

Grief often follows physical changes — a diagnosis, injury, disability, or chronic illness. You might mourn the life you imagined, the body you once had, or the capacities that once felt available to you.

This loss can be layered with frustration, isolation or fear of being a burden. Therapy offers a space to acknowledge those complex feelings without judgment.

Pregnancy Loss, Fertility Struggles & Reproductive Grief

Grief related to pregnancy loss, stillbirth, abortion, or infertility can be especially painful and isolating. You may feel sadness, shame, anger, guilt, or disconnection from your body. Others may not understand the depth of this grief — or may unintentionally minimise it.

We offer non-judgmental support for the layered, often unspoken grief that comes with reproductive journeys.

Estrangement and Family Disconnection

Losing contact with a parent, child or family member — whether by choice or circumstance — can create grief that feels complicated, guilt-ridden, or invisible. The person may still be alive, but the connection is lost or fractured.

You may grieve what was, what might have been, or what never existed. Therapy can hold all of that, without needing to tidy it up.

Loss Through Trauma

Sometimes, grief is not about one single event, but about what’s been lost through trauma: a sense of innocence, safety, trust, or time. Survivors of abuse or neglect often carry grief for what they didn’t get — a stable home, nurturing care, protection, or the chance to grow without fear.

This grief can be complex, long-standing, and difficult to name. Therapy can help make it feel real and offer a space where it’s finally witnessed.

Grieving Unlived Futures

Some grief is for the path you thought you were on — the relationship that would last, the family you didn’t have, the career you imagined, the life you assumed was yours. When life takes a different turn, we may grieve the version of the future that’s no longer available.

This kind of loss is often subtle and unacknowledged, but just as powerful. Therapy offers a space to honour it and discover what possibilities remain.

Grieving Who You Used to Be

Grief doesn’t always stem from external loss. Sometimes we mourn the person we used to be — before a trauma, before burnout, before illness, or simply before life changed.

This kind of identity grief can feel hard to name or justify, especially if nothing “dramatic” has happened. But it’s no less real. You might miss your old energy, confidence, dreams, or sense of possibility. Therapy can help you honour that version of yourself, explore what’s changed, and begin to reconnect with what still feels true.

Pet Loss

Losing a companion animal can be devastating. Pets often offer unconditional love, routine, comfort and emotional connection — and when they die, it can feel like a part of your daily world disappears. Yet society often minimises this kind of grief. We don’t. Your bond matters, and your grief is valid.

Cultural and Collective Grief

Some grief is shared. You may feel sorrow or despair related to climate change, political upheaval, violence, war, or social injustice. Or you may be carrying generational or ancestral grief tied to cultural displacement, colonialism, or systemic oppression.

This kind of grief can feel overwhelming or abstract, but it’s real. Therapy can help you hold these feelings in ways that are grounded, purposeful, and healing.