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Grief is not a problem to be fixed. It is the price of love — and it deserves to be witnessed with care and respect. Whether your loss is recent or long-carried, there is space here to be with what is true.
Understanding Grief
Grief does not follow the neat stages described in textbooks. It is messy, contradictory, and deeply personal. It can come in waves — sometimes at unexpected moments, years after a loss. It can look like sadness, anger, numbness, or an unsettling sense of going through the motions.
Many people come to therapy feeling that they are grieving "wrong" — that they're too sad, or not sad enough; that they should be over it by now; or that they feel guilty for having moments of happiness. There is no wrong way to grieve.
"Grief is not an illness to be cured. It's a testament to love — and it deserves to be witnessed with patience, not rushed to a conclusion."
Grief therapy doesn't aim to take away your grief. It creates a space to carry it differently — to let it be part of your story without dominating every chapter.
Types of loss I work with
The death of someone close — a parent, partner, child, sibling, friend — whether sudden and traumatic or expected after illness.
The end of a significant relationship — separation, divorce, estrangement — which can carry grief just as powerful as bereavement.
Grief that is not socially recognised or validated — after miscarriage, the loss of a pet, the loss of a relationship others didn't know about.
Grieving a loss before it happens — a terminal diagnosis, the declining health of a parent, the approaching end of a way of life.
Loss of a career, health, role, or sense of self — the grief of not becoming who you thought you would be, or losing who you were.
Prolonged grief disorder — where normal grief becomes stuck, overwhelming, or chronic, making it difficult to function or find meaning.
Recognising the Signs
Grief is not only emotional. Its effects spread across every dimension of experience — and all of them are valid.
Surges of sadness, longing, love, anger, guilt, or relief — sometimes all in quick succession. Emotional grief can feel unpredictable and exhausting to live inside.
Difficulty concentrating, memory lapses, confusion, or a sense of going through the motions. Sometimes called "grief brain" — the mental cloudiness that accompanies significant loss.
Fatigue, chest heaviness, appetite changes, disrupted sleep, physical aching. Grief is held in the body — it's not only a mental experience.
Pulling away from friends and family — sometimes because others don't know what to say; sometimes because the effort of social contact feels impossible.
When someone central to your world is gone, your sense of who you are can shift. Roles, habits and futures that were built around them are now uncertain.
Finding it hard to work, fulfil responsibilities, or engage with life in the ways you used to — while perhaps also feeling pressure (internal or external) to "be okay".
How I Can Help
Grief therapy is not about moving on. It's about finding a way to hold your loss within a life that still has meaning and possibility.
At the heart of all grief work is simply being heard. Person-centred therapy provides a space where you can grieve without judgement, at your own pace, in your own way.
For grief that has become stuck or complicated, CBT techniques help address avoidance, unhelpful beliefs about loss, and the thought patterns that maintain complicated grief.
Based on the research of Klass, Silverman and Nickman — grief is not about "letting go" but about finding a new way to hold the relationship with who or what has been lost.
We work with the stories we tell about our losses — and ourselves — to create a narrative that honours the loss while making room for the future.
Grief is held in the body. Gentle body-based approaches help release the physical weight of grief and reconnect you with a sense of groundedness and self.
Grief therapy has no fixed endpoint. Some people need a few sessions; others work for much longer. We follow your grief, not a predetermined structure — and we honour whatever form it takes.
Your Journey
Grief therapy doesn't follow a fixed path, but here is how our work together might unfold.
We speak briefly to check this feels like the right space for you, with no pressure to commit.
A gentle start — telling your story in your own words, at your own pace. Nothing is too small or too big.
Creating room to grieve fully — with all the contradictions, the guilt, the love, and the loss intact.
Slowly, a way to carry the loss that leaves room for living — not less grief, but a different relationship with it.
You leave with a relationship to your loss that honours it — and with yourself, intact.
Client Stories
★★★★★
"After losing my mum, I couldn't talk to anyone about how I really felt. I didn't want to worry my family or seem like I wasn't coping. The Listening Room gave me somewhere to be completely honest — and that honesty is what started to heal things."
"I came in carrying three years' worth of ungrieved loss. I didn't know that's what was wrong. Kamlesh helped me see it — and slowly, it became something I could carry."
"After my miscarriage, I felt nobody understood why I was so devastated. In therapy, it was finally safe to say how much that loss meant. I needed to be allowed to grieve."
"The kindness in this space is something I haven't found anywhere else. Grief therapy isn't about getting over it — it's about finding where to put it. That's exactly what I found here."
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Loss often touches wider areas of mental health. I'm experienced in working with grief in all its complexity.