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Sudden Loss Counselling

Sudden loss counselling in Victoria BC offers compassionate support for individuals navigating grief after accidents, overdose, suicide, or unexpected death. Sudden loss can feel deeply destabilizing, arriving without warning and leaving you struggling to make sense of what has happened. Counselling provides a steady, supportive space to acknowledge your loss and begin finding your footing again, at your own pace.

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Understanding Your Grief
How Counselling Can Support You
What to Expect in Sessions

Sudden Loss can Feel Deeply Destabilizing

When someone dies without warning — through accident, suicide, overdose, or unexpected medical events — the world can shift in an instant. Many people describe a sense that time has split into a before and an after, with little space to catch up to what has happened. Sudden loss counselling offers a steady and compassionate space to acknowledge the shock, grief, and emotional upheaval that often follow an unexpected death. This is a place where your experience is taken seriously and met with care, without pressure to make sense of what happened or to move forward before you are ready. Sessions are available in person in Victoria and online across British Columbia. After a sudden death, it is common to feel overwhelmed by the speed of change and the absence of answers. You may find yourself replaying events, searching for reasons, or struggling to comprehend that the person you love is truly gone. Counselling offers a place to slow things down and gently attend to what you are carrying.

Understanding your grief

Shock &
Disbelief

The feeling that time has split into a before and after, leaving you struggling to take in what has happened.

Unsettling
Emotions

Waves of confusion, anger, guilt, fear, or a sense of unreality that an arrive suddenly and feel hard to control

Mind & Body
Reactions

Your nervous system is on high alert— trouble sleeping, emotional numbness, or feeling constantly on edge.

How Counselling Can Support You

Sudden loss counselling is not about fixing grief or rushing you toward resolution. Instead, it offers a calm and collaborative space to gently process shock, grief, and the emotional impact of what has happened. In our work together, we may explore how the loss has affected your thoughts, emotions, relationships, sense of self, and sense of safety. This can include sitting with feelings such as guilt, anger, regret, fear, or the pain of absence and longing. We may also attend to how your body is holding the experience, particularly when emotions feel overwhelming or unpredictable. Some sessions may focus on telling the story of what happened, at a pace that feels manageable. Others may centre on finding moments of grounding, navigating triggers, or getting through daily life when everything feels altered. We remain guided by what feels most important to you in each session.

What to Expect in Sessions

Paced by
You

Waves of confusion, anger, guilt, fear, or a sense of unreality that an arrive suddenly and feel hard to control

A Gentle Respectull Space

The feeling that time has split into a before and after, leaving you struggling to take in what has happened.

Guided by What's Present

Your nervous system is on high alert— trouble sleeping, emotional numbness, or feeling constantly on edge.

When you're ready, I'm here

Let’s work together to begin your healing journey today.

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