Grief doesn't follow the stages.

For some people it presents as numbness, irritability, or a flat inability to engage with things that used to matter. For others it arrives weeks or months after the loss, when the structure of coping begins to give way. For high-functioning people — those who manage well externally — grief often gets deferred quietly, until it becomes impossible to ignore.

However grief is presenting for you, it doesn't need to fit a template. It needs space.

What we work with.

We work with grief following the death of a partner, parent, child, sibling, or close friend. We also work with ambiguous grief — the loss of a relationship, an identity, a career, a version of the future that was planned for and will not now arrive. Grief after suicide. Grief that is complicated by difficult feelings toward the person who died.

You do not need to have experienced a recent loss. Some people come to therapy carrying grief that has never been properly processed, sometimes for years.

Our approach to grief.

The clinical work uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as its primary framework. ACT doesn't ask you to let go of grief or to reach a place of acceptance on a fixed timeline. It works on your relationship to grief — so that what you're carrying becomes something you can move with, rather than something that stops you.

Sessions are 50 minutes. Most people begin with the 60-minute initial assessment, which gives Albie the space to understand the loss, the context, and what kind of support is most useful.

You don't need to be in crisis to reach out.

Many people wait until grief has become unmanageable before they seek help. You don't have to. If you've recently experienced a loss, or are carrying grief that has never been properly processed, a conversation is a reasonable first step.

If you need somewhere to talk about this properly, book a free 15-minute call.