Grief doesn't follow a schedule. It can arrive as waves of sadness, as anger or guilt, as numbness, or as a strange flatness where you expected tears. And loss isn't only about death — it can be the end of a relationship, a pregnancy that didn't continue, a career, your health, or a home and country you left behind. Sometimes the people around you expect you to have moved on long before you have.
We don't try to rush grief or tidy it away. Therapy offers a steady place to feel what you feel, to remember, and to make sense of a world that has changed shape. When a loss was sudden or traumatic and keeps replaying, EMDR can help those memories feel less raw. Over time, the aim isn't to forget or "get over" it, but to carry the loss in a way that leaves room for the rest of your life.