Grief and Loss Counselling in Medicine Hat, AB.

Grief and loss counseling is provided for all members of the family. Grief and loss can complicate all areas of family life and make parenting difficult during this season. Keystone offers support to parents who are grieving and to parents who are trying to understand and support their grieving child. It is also sometimes difficult understanding how to help a grieving child. Keystone provides a developmentally appropriate perspective on grief and provides counseling to those going through this journey.

Many people reach out for help to deal with grief or loss of a friend or family member. Its important to remember to be kind to your self during this time there is no right or wrong way to grieve. Its also important to remember a person can miss or grieve the loss of not only people but also jobs, events, trips, freedom, health and a number of other things As you process your memories of a person or an event you will be contained in a safe environment with acceptance and care.

Going through grief and loss is some of the most difficult and painful emotional processes. My approach to working with loss is to give you tools and specific tasks that can how to honour your grief and loss such that it gives relief and release. There are three areas that are typically needed to be addressed to recover from significant loss. The (1) past - where there may be unresolved issues that feel as though they cannot find the closure one needs. And there is the (2) present, in which one needs to figure out how to honour the loss and (3) the future, which is forever changed and for which positive meaning is needed. Working on these three areas allows for recovery to happen.

Grief and loss is not just death. Separation, divorce, moving, friendships ending, graduation are only a few examples of when grief can be experienced. Even with new and exciting changes there can be grief. Marriage and graduation provided exciting opportunities for the future, but also means leaving some things in the past. It is possible to move beyond grief and loss. The Grief Recovery program provides exercises to help recognize and then say goodbye. Saying "goodbye" does not mean forgetting, it means being able to move forward.

There are several stages that individuals go through when they are suffering from losses. Sometimes they feel that they are going crazy - but they aren't. Emotions can be intense and change quickly. I will help you to understand what is happening and be with you as you go through them. Whether it is a loved one, job or another form of loss, you and I will work together to handle it.

Grief can come about in many different ways - loss of a person, loss of a job, a breakup, change in lifestyle (e.g. pre- and post-pandemic changes). Regardless of the type of loss, it can be difficult to process. We want to help you manage and grieve this loss in the most supported way, which can assist in easing the pain associated with it. We are psychologists in Calgary and online that can help you with this both virtually online and in-person.

Grief is not limited to feelings of sadness. It can also involve guilt, yearning, anger, and regret. Some may find themselves grieving a painful relationship, while others may be faced with the loss of a loved one. In grief counselling, I support clients through their own unique grieving process to discover a path of healing and growth in their journey with grief and loss.