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Professional Grief and Loss Counselling for Emotional Healing, Guidance, and Bereavement Support

Find support for grief, loss, and bereavement. Our grief counselling helps you mourn, heal, and navigate the individual experience of loss with understanding.

How Do You Know It’s Time for Grief and Loss Counselling?

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Have you recently experienced the death of a loved one or another significant loss and feel unsure how to move forward?

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Do thoughts and feelings about the loss weigh heavily, making daily life feel harder than it should?

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Do you wish for a safe, understanding space where you can express your grief, talk to someone, and feel supported?

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If this sounds familiar, grief and loss counselling can help you navigate your grief journey. Many people seek a grief counsellor or therapist after losing someone, whether a friend or loved one, or experiencing a major loss that complicates the grieving process. Even in the early stages of grief, reaching out for support and guidance can make a meaningful and positive impact.

Through in-person sessions or online therapy, a grief counsellor helps you express your feelings, understand the stages of grief, and find healthy coping strategies. Counselling provides guidance to adapt to the loss, come to terms with your grief, and honour your own pace in the grieving process. With mutual support, peer support groups, and connection with others who have experienced loss, you don’t have to face the pain of grief alone.

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Grief and Loss Counselling for Emotional Healing and Bereavement Support

Losing a loved one or someone important can feel overwhelming, leaving you unsure how to move forward. The grief reactions, feelings of guilt, anger, or confusion that come with experiencing grief and loss can make daily life feel heavy. Professional grief and bereavement counselling provides a safe space to express your grief, understand your response to loss, and find ways to cope while supporting grief and healing.

Grief counsellors, therapists, and social workers offer in-person or online counselling, grief support, and access to programs and support groups, including bereavement support groups or loss groups. Counselling helps those grieving the death of a loved one connect with others, share their feelings, explore self-care, honour rituals that can provide comfort, and gradually move on with their life while navigating their unique grief journey.

Finding Healing Through Grief and Loss Counselling

Eddie, a young professional, recently experienced the loss of a loved one and felt completely overwhelmed. Grieving the loss left him feeling angry, confused, and unable to focus on daily tasks. The sadness was so intense that he struggled to come to work, and the job loss he feared added to his stress. Like many people experiencing the loss of someone or something important, he struggled with grief reactions and anticipatory grief, wondering how he could move on with his life.

He first joined a bereavement support group, connecting with others who had experienced the loss of a loved one. Sharing his feelings and listening to others helped Eddie feel less alone. These connections reminded him that it’s okay to seek professional help and that grief is a natural response to losing someone he cared about deeply.

Eddie then tried online grief sessions with a mental health professional before moving to in-person counselling. His therapist helped him express his grief, explore ways to cope, and navigate complicated grief. They also encouraged self-care, healthy routines like eating right, and rituals that can provide comfort while he adjusted to life after the loss.

Over time, counselling helped Eddie gradually adapt to the loss and regain the ability to function normally in daily life, including work. By expressing his grief, participating in support programs, and connecting with others, he began to feel hope again. Grief and loss counselling gave him guidance, comfort, and a safe space to process his emotions while learning to live with the loss.

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Find the Right Counsellor for You 

Our Matching Consultant understands the importance of finding the right combination of personality and therapeutic technique to meet your specific needs. They will listen, guide you through your options, and help match you with the ideal counsellor. This session is your opportunity to ask questions and ensure a customized care path that’s tailored for you. 

Healing and Guidance Through Grief and Loss Counselling

Losing a loved one or someone important can feel overwhelming and leave you unsure how to move on with your life. Professional grief and loss counselling offers a safe, caring space where you can express your grief, share your feelings, and begin to find comfort and guidance during such a difficult time.

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Intake Phase

Your first session is about being heard and understood. Many people who have experienced a loss start here, often after a free consultation, to share their feelings and explain what kind of support they need. This is the first step toward navigating grief with care and understanding.

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Discovery Phase

During this stage, you’ll explore your grief reactions and the ways loss and grief affect your daily life. It’s a time to reflect, recognize patterns, and learn ways to cope with bereavement, whether from losing a loved one, a friend, or even through job loss.

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Working Phase

With support from a therapist or mental health professional, you’ll learn ways to cope with complicated grief, express your grief, and explore rituals that can provide comfort. Each session is designed to help you gradually adapt to your loss while honouring the person who died and finding hope again.

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Check-In Phase

Through regular check-ins, your therapist ensures you’re supported and progressing at your own pace. These sessions give you space to share your feelings, explore ways to help yourself and others, and feel cared for as you continue navigating grief and loss.

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Follow-Up Phase

Ongoing grief counselling provides guidance as you adjust to life after losing a loved one. Even when grief feels heavy, support is available to help you move on with your life, while honouring the person who died and managing the loss that many people experience.

Where to Access Grief and Loss Counselling

Family TLC offers professional care for individuals who have experienced a loss, with both in-person and online sessions to support emotional healing and well-being. Therapists can help you express your grief, receive support while you bereave, and find ways to help others while navigating hospice care or the loss of a loved one.

Our Physical Locations:

  • Barrie: 160 Bradford Street, Barrie, Ontario L4N 3B5
  • Newmarket: 17070 Yonge Street, Unit 209, Newmarket, Ontario, L3Y 8Z4
  • Orillia: Unit 2A 349 West Street N, Orillia, Ontario L3V 5E1

Our Services are Available Across Ontario:

Our online services are available for customers in Toronto, Ottawa, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, London, Markham, Vaughan, Kitchener, Windsor, Richmond Hill, Burlington, Oakville, St. Catharines, Barrie, Guelph, Waterloo, Newmarket, Niagara Falls, Orillia, and all of Ontario.

Frequently Asked Questions

Grief counselling gives you a safe space to share your feelings and feel understood during a time when emotions can feel overwhelming.

Understanding and processing emotions: It helps you grieve in a way that makes sense for you and recognize normal grief reactions.

Coping with loss and grief: Counselling provides tools to manage sadness, anger, guilt, or confusion after losing someone important.

Connecting with a professional: A grief counsellor walks alongside you in your grieving process, helping you feel less alone.

Building emotional resilience: Sessions support you as you begin to heal and honour the person you lost.

Feeling supported throughout grief: Counselling ensures you always have a trusted space to express your feelings and navigate this difficult journey.

Recognizing the stages of grief can make the process feel less confusing and more natural.

Identifying emotional patterns: Understanding stages like denial, anger, or acceptance can help you see that your feelings are normal.

Managing grief reactions: Knowing the stages allows you to handle emotions without feeling overwhelmed.

Supporting your emotional journey: Awareness encourages self-compassion and patience with yourself.

Learning ways to help yourself: Understanding your grief helps you take small, manageable steps toward healing.

Finding hope in the process: Seeing grief as a journey can give reassurance that healing is possible over time.

Support groups connect individuals with others who understand firsthand what it’s like to lose someone.

Sharing experiences: Talking about a loss helps participants process grief and feel heard.

Finding peer support: Being with people who are also grieving reduces loneliness and provides emotional comfort.

Learning ways to cope: Hearing how others navigate loss can offer new strategies for managing one’s own grieving process.

Feeling less alone: Support groups remind individuals that losing someone is a shared experience and that others care.

Connecting with others: Peer support groups provide safe spaces to express their grief and offer support to others while continuing their own healing journey.

Professional grief services guide you through your emotions with care, helping you make sense of a difficult loss.

Expressing grief safely: Therapists provide a space to share your feelings openly, without judgment.

Navigating complicated grief: Support helps you work through grief that feels too intense or long-lasting.

Learning healthy coping strategies: Counselling shows practical ways to grieve while still caring for yourself.

Supporting emotional healing: Professional guidance helps you process grief in a structured, safe way.

Connecting with resources: Grief services may also connect you to hospice care, loss groups, or peer support for extra support.

Joining a loss group helps you feel less alone and reminds you that healing can happen alongside others who understand.

Sharing experiences: Talking about your loss allows you to process grief while also hearing others’ stories.

Receiving and giving support: Peer support encourages you to accept help and also to help others in their journey.

Building a sense of community: Loss groups provide connection, understanding, and a safe place to express grief.

Finding ways to cope: Hearing how others manage grief can give you new ideas for your own grieving process.

Strengthening emotional well-being: Being part of a supportive community fosters resilience, understanding, and hope while you mourn and heal.

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