{"id":2015,"date":"2024-12-02T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T11:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oudesite.hannekevandergoes.com\/elementor-2009\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:41:53","slug":"grief-processing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oudesite.hannekevandergoes.com\/en\/grief-processing\/","title":{"rendered":"Grief counseling therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Grief Processing Therapy<\/strong><\/p>

Few events are as profound as the loss of a loved one. Never mind how you lost that person: unexpectedly, or after a sickbed. A client of mine said of this after an unexpected death: From “that” moment there was no more past or future, only a before and after<\/em>. Poet M. Vasalis<\/a> wrote: One is strung with very andre strings, and he who has not experienced it does not know it.<\/em><\/p>

Grief counseling is not just about the emotion and the loss, but more importantly about what that loss does to you, and what changes it brings about in you. Many people experience emotional, physical and\/or social changes. It is also an identity change, you are no longer the partner, the mother, the son or daughter of. It can affect how you experience the world, or your spiritual experience. In short, the story of your life changed, and you lost yourself for a while.<\/span><\/p>

Sometimes it can be painful if you have had many negative feelings toward the one who has died. Or because the story between you and that person is not finished. That which is unspoken makes it painful. In grief counseling, it makes sense to look at the bond you had with the person who died, and how this bond can be reshaped. <\/p>

Sometimes grief is not about a recent loss, but about a loss that occurred in childhood. Children used to be overlooked quite often when a parent or sibling died. They got everything but were sidelined when the loss was discussed. With CI and grief counseling, you can still bring closure to the loss.<\/p>

It may be that grief is a difficult process for you, that you would like to tell your story, and process your loss experience.<\/p>

You may be wondering how I came to focus on grief professionally. In my conversations with clients, working with Compassionate Inquiry, I find that unprocessed loss is a topic that comes up regularly. That made me want to delve more into that and started to do additional studies in grief counseling at the master’s level at VID, scientific college in Oslo. I discovered that it is a fascinating field of work because so many aspects of life come together in it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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