Grief Counseling

One of the most shocking stops we experience in our life journey is losing someone we love or something that means a lot to us. The mourning process is not limited to death; The end of a deep relationship, loss of health, or a radical life change can also create a similar feeling of emptiness within us. It is perfectly natural for you to feel intense sadness, anger, denial, guilt or deep numbness during this process. Each individual's grief is unique, like fingerprints, and there is no universal "right" or "wrong" rule for how long this pain will last or how it will be experienced. However, sometimes this pain becomes so severe that it seems impossible to participate in the rest of life, and the natural mourning process can turn into a "complicated" or "prolonged" situation that the person cannot go through on his own.

False beliefs that make the person even more isolated, such as that grief will "pass over time" or "one must stay strong and forget", prevail in society. However, the scientifically based psychotherapy approaches we adopt in our clinic say that grief is not a "disease" that needs to be overcome or treated. Our goal in Grief Counseling is not to erase your memories, ignore your pain, or quickly "heal" you. On the contrary, it is about opening a compassionate and safe space for this deep pain within you, within the framework of the principles of cognitive flexibility and acceptance. We rebuild your emotion regulation skills in a therapy environment where you can express the "if onlys", automatic self-blaming thoughts, and complex feelings that come to your mind after the loss, without being judged.

This structured clinical process helps you build a new life that can grow and expand again around this huge loss that is at the center of your life. The main goal in the mourning process is not to get "closure" or to leave that person behind completely; It is to move your connection with your loss from the physical dimension to the psychological and memory dimension in a healthy way. If you feel that your life has stopped after the loss, that you are crushed under the pain and that you cannot find the strength to continue on the road again, you can find a professional companion in this difficult process with Grief Counseling. It is possible to rebuild a meaningful life that is in line with your values ​​by stopping fighting your pain and carrying it safely in a corner of your heart.