Pregnancy Loss Councelling
Pregnancy loss counselling in Victoria BC offers compassionate support for individuals navigating miscarriage, stillbirth, or pregnancy loss shaped by complex or deeply personal circumstances. You are not alone in this experience, and support is available at a pace that honours your story.
Pregnancy Loss Can Feel Quiet and Life-Altering
Pregnancy loss can be a deeply personal and life-altering experience. Whether your loss occurred through miscarriage, stillbirth, or experiences shaped by complex or personal circumstances, the emotional impact can be profound and long-lasting. Many people describe this kind of loss as quiet or invisible, even while it has reshaped how they see themselves, their bodies, and their future.
Pregnancy loss counselling offers a compassionate and steady space to acknowledge what has been lost, including the hopes, plans, and imagined futures that often accompany pregnancy. This is a place where your experience is taken seriously and treated with care, without comparison, judgment, or expectation. Sessions are available in person in Victoria and online across British Columbia.
Understanding your grief
Quiet and Invisible Loss
Pregnancy loss is often grieved privately, especially when the loss occurred early or was not widely known. This can lead to carrying grief quietly, without the recognition or support you may need.
Emotional
Waves
Grief after pregnancy loss can arrive in waves and take many forms, including sadness, longing, anger, guilt, numbness, loneliness, or emotional disconnection. These feelings may surface unexpectedly, triggered by dates, medical appointments, pregnancy announcements, or moments you did not anticipate would feel so painful.
Body and Identity Changes
Pregnancy loss can affect how you relate to your body. You may feel disconnected from your body, angry with it, or uncertain how to trust it again. Fear about the future or a loss of confidence in your sense of safety is a common response.
How Counselling Can Support You
Pregnancy loss counselling is offered as a collaborative and compassionate space where your story can be shared at a pace that feels right for you. Counselling is not about fixing grief or moving you toward acceptance. Instead, it provides a steady place to explore what you are carrying and how this loss continues to live within you.
In our work together, we may explore the emotional impact of the loss, the ways it has shaped your sense of self, and the challenges of continuing life after such a significant experience. Some sessions may focus on grief and memory. Others may explore how pregnancy loss is showing up in your relationships, daily life, or sense of meaning.
There is also space to sit with complicated or conflicting emotions. This includes experiences where decisions were involved, or losses shaped by complex circumstances. Feelings such as guilt, self-blame, relief, ambivalence, or confusion are welcome here. There is no expectation to grieve according to a timeline or to feel a certain way.
What to Expect in Sessions
A Calm, Respectful
Pace
Sessions provide a calm, supportive environment where you are not rushed toward a particular outcome. We move slowly, allowing room for emotion, reflection, and silence when needed.
Guided by What Matters to You
Our conversations are guided by what feels most important to you in each session. Some days may focus on emotions or memories connected to the loss. Other sessions may explore how pregnancy loss continues to shape your inner world or relationships.
Your Boundaries Are Honoured
You are never required to share more than you feel ready to. Your boundaries are respected throughout our work together, and care is taken to meet you where you are.
When you're ready, I'm here
Let’s work together to begin your healing journey today.
