I’ve built up a history and expertise in helping clients navigate grief. In society, there are unspoken norms for talking about grief. I hold a space for people, which goes against those rules. There is no grief too old or too small to talk about. Instead, I want to offer you the opportunity to share how you actually feel about a death or a loss. Feelings of grief aren’t neat and tidy – you may be feeling sad, but you might also be feeling angry, numb or resentful. I work with clients to explore the range of their emotions.
When talking about grief, it’s important to talk about the impact it has on your life. A death may change the way you see yourself and your identity. For example, you may have been estranged from the person who died, but now you have to grieve the loss of a possibility to repair that relationship.
Grief shows up in other ways as well. We can begin grieving for someone before they’ve died, particularly if they’re living with a life-limiting condition. We grieve the loss of pets, of people we don’t know, and of parts of ourselves and opportunities that we’ve lost. Sometimes we can find ourselves stuck living in an alternative outcome and reconciling that these things won’t happen can be hard to overcome.
Whatever your grief is, and whenever it occurred, we can work together to look at it from all angles. During my Haywards Heath therapy sessions, I offer you the room to talk about it honestly; you can make sense of what’s happened in a way that’s meaningful for you, and not to conform to the ideas of how we ‘should’ grieve.
A Deeper Way of Working
We will work together to understand not only what’s happening for you now, but where it comes from and how to make sense of it. By exploring your patterns, experiences and relationships, you gain a better understanding of what’s happening beneath the surface.
A Warm, Human Therapeutic Relationship
It’s normal for therapy to feel strange at first, opening up to a stranger is a difficult thing to do. I offer a space where you don’t have to perform, know the right thing to say, or even know where to start.
Experience with Grief, Illness and Identity Change
I work with people who have experienced grief, cancer and other long-term illnesses, along with people who have lost a sense of who they are. These experiences impact the way you relate to yourself and others. Therapy gives you the space to share your feelings honestly, without pressure to say or do what others may want you to.
Face-to-Face Therapy in Haywards Heath
I offer specialist grief and bereavement therapy from a private consulting room in central Haywards Heath, providing a confidential and supportive space to explore loss, bereavement and the emotional impact of significant change.
My Haywards Heath practice is accessible for people travelling from Lindfield, Cuckfield, Burgess Hill, Hassocks, Hurstpierpoint and the wider Mid Sussex area. You can also learn more about my wider approach to therapy in Haywards Heath, including the other issues I support clients with.
Online grief therapy is also available for clients across the UK, offering greater flexibility if travelling to the practice is not convenient.
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