Welcome to Thrive Therapy

Losing someone important can affect every part of your life. Grief can feel overwhelming, confusing, exhausting, or strangely numb. It may arrive in waves, or it may leave you wondering why you are not feeling what you expected. There is no right way to grieve, and there is no timetable for healing.

As a Clinical Psychologist, I offer a compassionate, thoughtful space where you can bring your grief exactly as it is. Whether your loss is recent or happened many years ago, therapy can help you make sense of your experience, process painful emotions, and find a way of carrying your loss without it overwhelming your life.

Every relationship is unique, and every bereavement is different. You may be grieving the death of a partner, parent, child, sibling, friend or colleague. You may have experienced an expected death following illness, a sudden loss, suicide, miscarriage, stillbirth, or multiple losses over time.

Sometimes grief becomes complicated by feelings of guilt, anger, regret, trauma or unresolved relationships. At other times, people find themselves functioning well on the outside whilst feeling disconnected, anxious or emotionally exhausted inside.

Whatever your experience, you do not have to face it alone.

Bereavement has been a central part of my clinical work throughout my career. I have worked within hospices and palliative care services, supported families facing life-limiting illness, and worked alongside people living with dementia and those who care for them. These experiences have given me a deep appreciation of the many different ways people experience loss.

Over many years, I have had the privilege of walking alongside people through some of the most painful moments of their lives. Again and again, I have witnessed the remarkable capacity people have to heal—not by forgetting those they have lost, but by finding a different relationship with their grief.

My work and personal experience of grief, has taught me that grief is not something to “get over”. Rather, it is something we gradually learn to carry with greater compassion, understanding and meaning.

Bereavement therapy is not about taking away your grief, or forgetting the person who died. It is about helping you make space for it, understand it, and reconnect with yourself and your life, so eventually you can find a way to navigate a way forward.

Together we may explore:

• overwhelming sadness or emotional numbness
• guilt, regret or unresolved conversations
• anger or feelings that are difficult to talk about
• anxiety following a loss
• traumatic memories surrounding a death
• changes in identity and purpose
• loneliness and isolation
• supporting children or other family members whilst grieving
• rebuilding life after loss

I draw on evidence-based psychological approaches, always tailoring therapy to your individual needs. Most importantly, I believe that healing happens within a safe, trusting therapeutic relationship where you feel genuinely heard, understood and accepted.

Many people come to therapy worried that life will never feel meaningful again. Whilst grief often remains part of us, it does not always have to dominate our lives, indefinitely.

It is possible to honour the person you have lost while also reconnecting with joy, purpose, relationships and hope for the future, at your own pace.

If you are looking for compassionate, experienced bereavement therapy, I would be honoured to support you through your journey.