NARRA COUNSELLING & CONSULTING
Online Grief Counselling Offered Across British Columbia
• Talk through your loss in a safe, supportive space.• Practice tools to manage waves of sadness, anger, or overwhelm.• Rebuild routines, meaning, and connection as you move forward.
How To Get Started
15-Minute Virtual Session
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Meet your therapist
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No waitlist, quick start
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No commitment
Start with a free 15-minute consultation. Just a chance to:
- Share what’s on your heart
- Ask questions about grief therapy
- See if this support feels like a good fit for you
Sessions are available online across BC.
Limited Time Only: Our Intro Offer
Grief changes everything - counselling gives you space to feel and heal at your own pace.
Grief can make the world feel like it has stopped, while everyone else keeps moving forward. The emptiness, the heaviness, and the quiet moments that ache — they can feel unbearable at times. But you don’t have to carry it alone.
- Processing emotions safely and openly
- Developing strategies to manage sadness, anger, or overwhelm
- Rebuilding routines and daily structure after loss
- Strengthening connections with loved ones and support networks
- Finding meaning and ways to move forward while honoring what’s lost
Counselling provides a supportive space to actively navigate grief, regain a sense of control, and take steps toward healing at your own pace.
Grief counselling can help you take active steps toward healing, including:
Areas We Support in Grief Counselling
Grief affects everyone differently. At Narra Counselling, we offer support for a wide range of grief experiences, including:
Processing loss
Grief counselling offers a safe space to work through complex emotions like sadness, anger, guilt, or confusion that often come with loss.
Coping with unexpected changes
Grief therapy can help you adjust to life after the death of a loved one, a major transition, or other significant losses that leave you feeling unmoored.
Relationship and social challenges
After loss, family, friendships, and workplace dynamics often shift. Counselling provides support in navigating these new or strained relationships with care.
Self-care and emotion regulation
Learn healthy strategies to manage the intense waves of grief, stress, and overwhelm, while slowly rebuilding balance and strength in daily life.
Meaning-making and life transitions
Grief counselling can guide you in finding ways to carry your loss while moving forward, honoring your loved one, and creating meaning in this next chapter of life.
Each person’s grief experience is valid and deserves care. Counselling provides a safe space to process emotions, develop coping strategies, and regain a sense of stability and resilience. At Narra Counselling, we offer online grief counselling throughout BC, so you can access support in a way that works for you.
How Grief Counselling Can Help
Grief counselling may help you:
At Narra Counselling, we begin by understanding how grief is showing up for you emotionally, mentally, and physically. Counselling creates a supportive space where you can explore what you’re feeling, learn coping strategies, and take steps toward healing.
✔ Set boundaries with individuals or expectations that may not understand your grief
✔ Find meaning and ways to move forward while continuing to honour what you’ve lost
✔ Develop tools to manage waves of sadness, anger, or overwhelm
✔ Strengthen connections with loved ones and support networks
✔ Express your emotions safely and without judgment
You don’t need to be in crisis to start. Many people come to counselling because they are ready to actively work through grief and regain balance. Counselling can provide a steady, supportive space to begin this process.
What to Expect in Grief Counselling
Counselling for grief is a supportive, non-judgmental space where you can explore your feelings at your own pace. You can expect:
A safe place to share: Express sadness, anger, guilt, or confusion without feeling pressured.
Guidance, not judgment: Your counsellor helps you navigate emotions and offers tools to cope with overwhelming moments.
Personalized support: Therapy focuses on your unique experience, helping you set boundaries, rebuild routines, and process loss in ways that feel manageable.
Gradual progress: Healing unfolds over time. Some days may feel lighter, others heavier, and that’s okay.
Practical coping strategies: Learn ways to manage intense emotions, restore balance, and strengthen connections with others.
Grief counselling doesn’t erase loss, but it helps you carry it more gently, with support along the way.
Our evidence-based treatment approach
At Narra Counselling, we use a range of evidence-based approaches tailored to your unique needs and goals. Sessions provide a safe, supportive space to explore grief, process emotions, and develop tools that help you move forward in everyday life.
Depending on what fits best, counselling may include:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
A structured, goal-oriented approach that helps individuals identify and gently challenge unhelpful thoughts, beliefs, and patterns that can intensify pain after a loss. Through CBT, clients learn practical strategies to manage feelings of sadness, guilt, or self-blame, while gradually building coping skills to navigate daily life.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
A skills-based approach that helps individuals manage overwhelming emotions and navigate the intense waves of sadness, anger, or guilt that often accompany loss. DBT teaches practical tools for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness, allowing clients to respond to grief with awareness and self-compassion.
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
A therapeutic approach that focuses on understanding and processing the deep emotions that come with loss. Instead of avoiding or suppressing painful feelings, EFT helps you face them in a safe and supportive way. The goal is to create space for sadness, anger, guilt, or longing, while also strengthening your ability to feel comfort, connection, and hope.
Attachment-Informed Approaches
A supportive counselling approach that explores how early relationships and attachment patterns influence how we experience and process loss. This therapy helps individuals understand feelings of longing, separation, or unresolved grief, and how these emotions may be connected to past relational experiences.
We also work from a trauma-informed lens, recognizing that grief often interacts with past experiences. That means we prioritize emotional safety, go at a pace that feels right, and partner with you to create a healing process that works for your life.
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach here. We’ll work together to find what resonates with you and adapt as you move forward.
Meet your therapist
Avneet Sandhu
Registered Clinical Counsellor
Avneet is a counsellor dedicated to supporting teens and young adults, with a focus on minority, newcomer, and Indigenous communities. She provides compassionate care for those navigating grief and loss, depression, trauma, and intergenerational trauma, creating a safe space for healing and empowerment.
Yasmeen Al-Samarrai
Counsellor (Pre-Licensed)
Avneet is a counsellor dedicated to supporting teens and young adults, with a focus on minority, newcomer, and Indigenous communities. She provides compassionate care for those navigating grief and loss, depression, trauma, and intergenerational trauma, creating a safe space for healing and empowerment.
Instead of trying to push grief away, counselling helps you learn how to carry it, without letting it take over your life.
Over time, you might begin to feel:
A greater awareness of what brings up waves of sadness or longing
The ability to pace yourself and give yourself permission to grieve
A gentler inner voice, replacing harsh self-judgment or guilt
Confidence in setting boundaries with others who may not understand your loss
The capacity to find moments of calm, reflection, or small joy
A sense of meaning or connection, even while honoring your loved one
Progress may be gradual, but each step adds up.
Even a quiet change can bring big relief.
What Might Change Over Time
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I have to talk about everything at once?
No. Grief is a process, and you share at your own pace. Counselling gives you a safe space to explore your feelings gradually, without pressure.
How long is each counselling session?
Sessions are 50 minutes and offered online via a secure video platform, so you can access support from anywhere in British Columbia.
Is grief counselling only for someone in crisis?
Not at all. Many people seek grief counselling simply because they want guidance navigating their loss, manage strong emotions, or rebuild routines and connections.
How many sessions will I need?
Everyone’s needs are different. Some people find a few sessions helpful, while others benefit from longer-term support. We will check in regularly and decide together what feels right.
If you’re still reading this, something in you may already be ready for change.