Support for Grief and Loss
Grief is a natural part of being human, a response to losing something or someone significant
It’s not a problem to be fixed or a condition to be treated. It’s a deeply personal, relational process that can reshape your world. Life, as it once was, no longer exists in the same way, and with that comes a need to make sense of what’s changed and what still remains.
From a Gestalt perspective, we meet grief with presence and curiosity. There’s no rush to “move on.” Instead, we move with the grief, gently reconstructing what once was, while allowing space for something new to slowly emerge. This process isn’t linear, and it can look different for everyone.
Grief touches all parts of us, body, mind, and emotions. You might feel heaviness, fatigue, restlessness, or physical pain. Emotionally, grief may bring waves of sadness, guilt, anger, fear, loneliness, or numbness. Cognitively, it can show up as confusion, disbelief, forgetfulness, or a sense of disconnection. It might also affect your appetite, sleep, or desire to be around others. None of this means you’re doing it wrong, it’s simply how the body and psyche try to process something too big for words.
A holistic approach to grief invites space for all of this.
In therapy, we move slowly, allowing you to make contact with the pain at your own pace, while also exploring what helps you feel steady, safe, or supported.
Grief theorist Robert A. Neimeyer describes three core aspects of grieving: retelling, rebuilding, and reinventing.
- Retelling is about revisiting the story of what happened. This storytelling can be deeply individual and may need to be told many times. Each telling helps new meaning emerge.
- Rebuilding is the process of carrying the memory or relationship differently. It’s not about forgetting, but about finding a way to continue the bond in a form that can support your life now.
- Reinventing acknowledges that life is now different. It takes courage to embrace a new identity, new rhythms, and a new relationship with the world, where sadness and hope are allowed to exist side by side.
Grief is not something to overcome, but something to integrate
That may include times of withdrawal, rest, and re-emergence. It may involve challenging cultural ideas of how grief “should” look. It may mean creating your own rituals, finding your own language, and defining your own timeline.
In our work together, we explore how grief is showing up in your body and life, and how meaning and identity can shift and evolve through the experience. The goal is never to erase grief, but to move toward wholeness while carrying it with you in a way that feels honest and sustainable.