Grieving a Loved One
Grieving loved ones is one of life’s hardest experiences. Feeling alone while you’re doing it makes it even harder.
Relationship Loss
Grief can hit when relationships end, even before the loss is complete. Therapy aims to help you move forward.
Loss of Meaning
Shifts in purpose, and life’s experiences can shatter what felt solid, leaving us in adrift in grief. Therapy aims to rebuild that foundation.
Identity Loss
Life changes, like job loss, and changes in health or ability, can cause us to grieve, especially when they’re tied deeply to our sense of identity.
Grieving a Loved One
The loss of a parent, partner, child, or a dear friend can reshape our entire sense of self.
There’s no right way to grieve someone we love. If often shows up in waves. We can feel devastated one day, and numb the next. We might find ourselves angry, or relieved, or guilty about feeling relieved.
What therapy aims to offer is a space where you don’t have to manage how your grief affects anyone else. The hard things can be said, and felt. It is a space to revisit memories, sit with the weight of it, and on your own terms, begin to find your footing.
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Relationship Loss
The end of a romantic relationship, familial relationship, or a friendship often comes with grief that goes unrecognized or is minimized, even though the loss is real.
Sometimes, grief starts before a relationship ends. A slow unraveling of a marriage, or a growing distance in a lifelong friendship can be just as disorienting as the loss itself.
Therapy provides a space to untangle the sadness of the loss, the anger of what may have been taken away, and even the relief of a relationship ending.
Loss of Meaning
Grieving a loss of meaning is deeply personal. When something foundational shifts, like faith or deeply-held beliefs and values, it can be hard to know where we stand.
Like many forms of grief, losing meaning can be invisible to others. For many, when inherited beliefs collide with new ones these questions carry added complexity. Especially in an ever-changing world.
Grief therapy isn’t about arriving at answers. It’s about having a safe place to ask questions honestly, and to slowly rebuild a sense of meaning that belongs to you.
Identity Loss
When our sense of identity changes, it can feel like losing a version of yourself that you didn’t get to say goodbye to.
Whether it’s tied to a job or career, changes in health or ability, our evolution into parenthood, or as a caregiver of a loved one with illness, grieving a loss of identity can leave us asking, “Who am I now?”
Therapy creates space to sit with that question, and work towards understanding identity loss, recognizing what has changed, what remains, and, what moving through it looks like.
Grief Therapy FAQ
Explore some of the most frequently asked questions about grief therapy.
Grief therapy is a form of psychotherapy that provides people with a safe, private space to process loss on their own terms. While grief therapy is often associated with the death of a loved one, it includes any type of loss: the end of a relationship, a major life change, a shift in identity or meaning, and much more.
Grief and loss can affect sleep, relationships, sense of self, or our ability to engage with daily life. Grief therapy, and therapy in general, can help people to process the deep emotions tied to grief. It may be helpful to know that while people may see a therapist for grief counselling, they often end up exploring much more about what else is inside them. This integrative approach to therapy is key to how Compass Rose Therapy operates.
Having grief that isn’t fully processed is not uncommon, and for many, it has a way of resurfacing in daily life. Grief can impact relationships, major transitions, or show up as seemingly unrelated stress. Grief therapy aims to help people process any kind of loss, regardless of when it happened. If you would like to know more about what grief therapy, or therapy in general can offer you, please contact us.
Not at all. Many people come to therapy precisely because they’re not ready to move on. Grief therapy isn’t about letting go or moving on. It’s about having a space to feel what’s true for you, wherever you’re at. Therapy in general is tailored toward your goals, and those can be different for everyone. To learn more about what grief therapy can offer, contact us today.
The emotions and feelings of grief and loss can happen in the middle of a painful separation, seeing a loved one’s health decline, or navigating a life transition that isn’t over yet. It doesn’t require a final outcome. Instead, grief therapy aims to help process and find understanding throughout.