Welcome to Healing the Loss

If you are here, you may be carrying grief, loss, or trauma. Healing the Loss offers compassionate, individual grief support for the many forms loss can take.

This is a space where your experience will be met with care, respect, and understanding.

What is Grief?

Grief is a natural, normal response to loss, and loss can take many forms. It may follow the death of someone you love, divorce or relationship loss, illness, trauma, pet loss, financial change, family changes, or other significant life transitions.

There are also losses that are quieter and harder to name, but no less real. Sometimes grief has accumulated over many years before we recognize what we have been carrying.

Whatever your loss, your grief matters.

Compassionate Grief Support

Healing the Loss provides confidential grief support for people navigating loss and life transitions. I offer a compassionate space where you can share your experience with someone who understands grief not only professionally, but through lived experience.

There are no timelines, rules, or expectations for how grief should unfold. Instead, our work focuses on presence, understanding, and support as you begin to carry what may feel unbearable. Over time, many people find that when grief is acknowledged and witnessed, space slowly opens for healing and renewed hope.

Tools for Navigating Grief

There is no single approach to grief that is right for everyone. Our work is shaped around you, your loss, and what you need.

Alongside individual grief support, we may decide to include elements of the Grief Recovery Method®. This is always your choice.

While the program uses the word “recovery,” I prefer to think of this work as grief discovery. We carry our losses and grow around them. The pain shifts and changes, as does our ability to carry it.

Grief discovery can help us recognize and acknowledge losses that may have gone unnamed, unheard or unacknowledged and better understand what we are carrying now.

Beyond Individual Support

While Healing the Loss began with one-to-one grief support, I have also become deeply committed to grief education.

Through workshops, presentations, online courses, and professional education, I work with health-care providers, educators, caregivers, workplaces, long-term care teams, and community organizations to build grief literacy and confidence in responding to loss.

Whether I am sitting with one person or speaking to a room of professionals, my goal remains the same: to make grief feel less frightening, less isolating, and easier to understand.

You Do Not Have to Do This Alone

Since founding Healing the Loss in 2015, it has been my privilege to provide thousands of hours of grief support to people in Nova Scotia, across Canada, and internationally. Every conversation has reinforced my belief that grief deserves understanding, compassion, and a safe place to be witnessed.

Whether we connect through individual grief support, a grief retreat, education, a course, workshop, or professional consultation, my hope is that you leave with a greater understanding of grief, whether your own or someone else's.

Support is available online and, when possible, in person, so distance is not a barrier to receiving care.

Grief deserves to be heard, acknowledged, and understood.