Grief Counselling Edinburgh

There’s no right way to grieve.

Grief doesn’t follow the tidy stages we’re told about. It arrives as sadness, but also as anger, guilt, relief, numbness, sometimes all in one afternoon. It shows up in the body as exhaustion, a tight chest, a fog you can’t think through. And it resurfaces long after the world seems to expect you to be over it.

However your grief looks, it makes sense, and it deserves better than a timeline. If you’re struggling to carry a loss, recent or long ago, you don’t have to carry it alone.

How I work with grief:

Mostly, I offer what grief actually needs: a warm, unhurried space where all of it is welcome. The love and the anger. The stories you need to tell and retell. The complicated feelings you can’t say anywhere else.

Because loss lives in the body too, we also tend to the physical side of grieving: the shock your system may still be holding, especially after a sudden or traumatic bereavement. There’s no agenda to get you over anything. The work is about learning to carry your loss, honouring what was, and slowly finding your way back to warmth and meaning, at your own pace.

 Losses I work with:

• The death of a partner, parent, child, family member or friend
• Sudden, unexpected or traumatic bereavement
• Anticipatory grief, when a loss is coming
• Grief that feels stuck or hasn’t eased with time
• Other profound losses, such as a relationship, health, identity or a way of life
• The loss of a beloved pet

When you’re ready

There’s no good time to reach out when you’re grieving, only the moment you decide you’d like some company in it.

I offer a free initial consultation, with no obligation, so we can have a gentle chat about what would help. I see clients in person in Leith and Newington, Edinburgh, and online across the UK and around the world.