Grief Counselling
in Singapore
Losing someone, a pet, or facing a profound life change can leave you feeling lost, isolated, and overwhelmed. If you are seeking support, our service provides grief counselling Singapore residents can trust, offering professional, compassionate, and culturally sensitive support.
We are here to walk alongside you, offering a secure, non-judgmental space to explore your feelings and find your footing again through a deeply personal journey of adaptation and meaning-making.
My Commitment to Your Healing Through Grief Counselling
My practice is built upon years of experience and a foundation of evidence-based approaches to loss. This dedication ensures the highest standard of care in grief counselling Singapore offers. I specialize in the following areas:
Bereavement Counselling: Navigating the complex emotions following the death of a loved one.
Anticipatory Grief Counselling: Providing support and guidance when a loved one has a terminal illness, helping you prepare for future loss while coping with present pain.
Complicated Grief Counselling (Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder): Specialized, focused therapy for when grief becomes overwhelming, persistent, and severely disrupts your life for an extended period.
- Cat Loss / Grief Counselling: Acknowledging and validating the intense pain of losing a beloved feline companion.
How Does Grief Counselling Help With Loss
People often talk about “processing” when it comes to grief and loss. This means working through your emotions. acceptance, letting go, or reframing the loss. For example, instead of a memory creating a feeling of loss, will help you remember the person.
Grief is a universal, natural, necessary, and very personal process that expresses itself in different ways for each of us. Though you may pass through stages of grief that many share, how you experience grief is unique to you, and is often unpredictable. You may be experiencing the loss of a loved one or dealing with anticipatory grief and loss of someone who is approaching the end of life. You may have the added challenge of a sudden or traumatic death of someone close to you.
The process of grieving can be very painful, and yet it can also be healing and lead to a time of renewed appreciation of life and of those we love who have passed on, and it can deepen our bonds with those still with us. How you grieve, and how the loss of a loved one impacts you, can depend on the circumstances surrounding their death, your relationship to them, your own circumstances, as well as your personal and family history, traditions, and spiritual life in coping with loss.
Some challenges you might expect while grieving:
Withdrawal/Isolation: Though you may need some time alone, notice if you are over-isolating.
Difficulty concentrating: You may not be able to focus or accomplish as much as you are used to during the day.
Trouble with daily routines: You may need extra help or extra reminders for daily routines.
Emotional bursts: Tears, anger, depression, or mood swings are normal grief reactions. Try not to judge yourself. Instead, seek understanding and know that healing takes time.
Sleep disturbance: Trouble sleeping can impact daily life.
Loss of appetite: Appetite loss is a normal reaction,These are all normal responses to grief and loss.
Refrain from judging or admonishing yourself to “get over it” or “move on.” You may experience increased grief after all the funeral activity is over. You may have a delayed grief reaction triggered by something else, or need extra support during holidays, special occasions, or anniversaries of your loved one’s death or birthday.
Understanding Grief: Counselling and the Search for Meaning
Grief is a testament to the love that was shared. It is messy, non-linear, and unique to every individual.
The Power of Connection: Julia Samuel, a renowned grief psychotherapist, reminds us of the power of connection in healing. She highlights that a strong predictor of outcomes in grief is love and connection to others. Our role is to be that crucial connection and support when you feel most alone.
The Search for Meaning: Grief expert Dr. Robert A. Neimeyer frames grieving as fundamentally a meaning-making process. When a loss occurs, it shatters the story we had about our lives. Through grief counselling, we work together to:
Reconstruct a life story that incorporates the loss.
Maintain a meaningful, continuing bond with the person who died.
Find a path forward that honours the past.
“The work of mourning involves finding a way to move on with life while keeping the deceased emotionally close in a new and different way.” — Dr. Robert A. Neimeyer
Services We Offer
| Service | Focus | Who Can Benefit? |
|---|---|---|
| Individual Counselling | Private one-on-one sessions for personal loss and healing. | Adults, young adults, and older persons navigating any form of loss. |
| Anticipatory Grief | Coping with a loved one's impending death and the emotional toll of caregiving. | Individuals and families facing terminal illness diagnoses. |
| Complicated Grief Therapy | Targeted, structured therapy for persistent and disabling grief symptoms. | Those whose intense grief lasts for many months and significantly impairs daily life. |
| Cat Loss Counselling | Processing the intense and often disenfranchised grief following the loss of a feline companion. | Anyone struggling with the death, disappearance, or necessary re-homing of a cat. |
Ready to Take the First Step?
Healing doesn’t mean forgetting; it means finding a new way to live and love. If you are struggling with loss, you do not have to carry the weight alone.
Contact us today for a confidential initial consultation to discuss your needs.
FAQs
Everyone’s grief journey is unique, and a wide range of intense, unexpected, or even absent emotions are considered “normal”. Feelings of sadness, anger, guilt, anxiety, or numbness, along with physical symptoms like trouble sleeping or eating, are common responses to loss.
Most people cope with loss with support from family and friends. However, consider seeking professional help if your symptoms are significantly interfering with your daily life (work, relationships, daily tasks), you’re experiencing persistent sadness or hopelessness, or you feel “stuck” for a prolonged period.
Grief and clinical depression have overlapping symptoms. A grief counsellor can help differentiate between the two. Persistent sadness, loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed, or an inability to carry out daily tasks might be signs of depression.
In a session, you can talk about the person who died, how the loss affects you, and how you are coping. The counsellor helps you understand and process your feelings, explore coping strategies, and adapt to life without your loved one.