Therapy for Grief and Bereavement.
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We have multiple approaches to grief therapy.
Jess uses IADC which is an EMDR-based process that helps grieving clients access and process their core sadness. Once the sadness has been reduced with the use of eye movements, clients often enter a deep state of receptivity and openness. Clients may then have an experience of connecting with their loved one. This can be very gratifying and healing, even if your loss happened a long time ago. Kate uses art therapy. Art therapy allows individuals who are grieving the opportunity to express and process their sensory and emotional experiences. Often when someone has experienced a significant loss they describe the experience as a fog, a heaviness, numbness, despair… These experiences are registered in the sensory/emotional right side of our brain, which is processed and expressed through creative means much more readily then through cognitive conversation. Tonya uses narrative therapy. Narrative therapy focuses on writing the story. It puts words to the emotions, describes the memories, and gives permanence to the experience, as you have a written copy that will withstand the test of time. We tend to take life for granted, that we can always go back and hear the stories. After the loved on is gone, those opportunities can be lost. However, writing out those stories is a productive way to process loss. Reach out to discuss your options for grief processing. |