Grief Counselling

Grief work is something that I hold dear to my heart. My experiences as both a paramedic, and then as an RN in long term care, have given me the unique opportunity to sit with a lot of people over the last 20 years and support them in experiences of grief and loss. Grief isn’t tidy, linear, or polite. It can ambush, contradict us, and reshapes us, seemingly whether we consent or not. Grief is often thought of in the stages of grief; Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. I like to think of this as more of a cloud rather than specific, linear stages. We each experience grief in our own unique way, on our own timeline.

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My work with clients experiencing grief sits in that subjective reality, offering a place where loss can be spoken without needing to justify its depth or timeline. I resonate with the way grief is described by Sameet Kumar, when he stated “We grieve whenever an anchor in our understandng of our identity is lost.” This means we may experience grief for a myriad of reasons; job loss, breakups, divorce, children moving out of the family home, and the loss of someone when they die. Whether you’re mourning a person, a relationship, a future that is no longer on the horizon, or a version of yourself that you feel you can’t get back, counselling can offer a space to breathe, unravel, and create new meaning.

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​Together we will move at your pace, exploring anger, numbness, confusion, yearning, or those moments when life feels colourless. I will support you in deepening your understanding of your grief as a valid response to love and change, not a failure to “move on.” We will work to understand the changes to your identity, develop new trust and connection in a world that has shifted under your feet. The goal isn’t to erase pain; it’s about supporting you to carry it in ways that don’t crush you, helping you process it, and finding strands of hope or purpose without betraying what was lost.