While grief is a natural process, sometimes it can feel impossible to move forward, leaving you stuck in pain.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Person-Centred Therapy offer a compassionate, structured approach to help you process loss, navigate emotions, and rebuild life with meaning and resilience.

How CBT & Person-Centred Therapy for Bereavement Can Help
✔ Understand Your Grief – Make sense of your emotions and why they feel so intense (Neimeyer, 2019).
✔ Challenge Unhelpful Thoughts – Address guilt, regret, or self-blame that may be holding you back
✔ Manage Anxiety & Depression – Learn coping strategies to reduce emotional distress (Maccallum & Bryant, 2013).
✔ Rebuild Routine & Purpose – Take gradual steps toward finding meaning after loss (Shear et al., 2016).
✔ Embrace Healing & Acceptance – Honour your loved one while still moving forward in life.
✔ Receive Compassionate Support – Person-centred therapy provides a safe, empathetic space to explore emotions at your own pace (Rogers, 1951).

The Science Behind CBT & Person-Centred Therapy for Grief
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps by identifying unhelpful thought patterns and emotional blocks that may be keeping you stuck in grief
• CBT interventions have been shown to reduce complicated grief symptoms and prevent prolonged grief disorder (Maccallum & Bryant, 2013).
• Person-Centred Therapy (PCT) creates a non-judgmental, empathetic space for self-exploration and healing (Rogers, 1951).
• Research indicates that grief-focused therapy significantly improves emotional well-being and helps individuals adjust to life after loss (Shear et al., 2016).
• A recent study found that integrating CBT with emotion-focused therapy led to greater improvements in grief processing and emotional regulation (Neimeyer, 2019).

Finding Strength in Healing
If you’re struggling with grief, CBT and Person-Centred Therapy can help you heal, adapt, and move forward with strength, understanding, and compassion.

References

• Maccallum, F., & Bryant, R. A. (2013). A cognitive attachment model of prolonged grief: Integrating attachments, memory, and identity. Clinical Psychology Review, 33(6), 713-727. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-27386-002

• Neimeyer, R. A. (2019). Meaning reconstruction in bereavement: Development of a research agenda. Clinical Psychology Review, 69, 67-82. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30907718/

• Rogers, C. R. (1951). Client-centered therapy: Its current practice, implications, and theory. Houghton Mifflin. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1952-01516-000

• Shear, M. K., Wang, Y., Skritskaya, N., Duan, N., Mauro, C., & Ghesquiere, A. (2016). Treatment of complicated grief in elderly persons: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Psychiatry, 73(6), 567-576. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25250737/