Bereavement and Grief Therapy in Edinburgh and Online

Losses this work can hold

• Death and bereavement, whether recent or longstanding.
• Ambiguous losses — losses that are hard to name or that others do not fully recognise.
• The end of a relationship, marriage or long friendship.
• Loss of a role, whether through redundancy, retirement or change.
• Loss of health, or the physical life you used to have.
• Loss of a home or a place that felt like home.
• Loss of an imagined future.
• Changes to identity that follow significant loss.

How grief is experienced

Grief is different for everyone, and rarely linear. It can involve sadness, anger, numbness, guilt, relief, exhaustion, tenderness and love, often together. It can settle for a time and then return unexpectedly, sometimes years later.

Sometimes the difficulty is not the grief itself but the pressure to have "moved on" — from others, or from within. Psychotherapy provides a space in which you do not need to perform any particular version of grieving.

Continuing life while staying in relationship with what has been lost

Much of the work is about finding ways to continue living while maintaining, rather than severing, your relationship to what has been lost. That is often less a matter of letting go than of learning to carry something differently.