Grief support to help you rebuild capacity for what matters to you.
Grief changes far more than our emotions. It can affect our thinking, energy, confidence, relationships and ability to engage with everyday life.
I work with adults navigating life after the death of someone important, helping them understand what’s happening and gently rebuild their capacity to participate in life again.
Confidential and Safe
Your privacy and confort
are always respected
Evidence-informed & Compassionate
Grounded in neuroscience and somatic principles, delivered with deep care
Flexible & Accessible
Online sessions and resources you can access anywhere
Maybe You're Here Because...
- You’re functioning, but everything takes more effort than it used to.
- You can’t concentrate the way you once could.
- Ordinary life feels exhausting. (groceries, socialising, replying to messages…)
- You feel disconnected from yourself or the people around you.
- Everyone thinks you’re doing well, but it doesn’t feel that way.
- You hoped grief would feel different by now.
Grief affects the brain, body and nervous system as well as the heart. Understanding what’s happening can be the beginning of feeling less overwhelmed.
My Approach
Science
Understanding what grief is doing to your brain, body and nervous system can make your experience feel less confusing and far less lonely.
Compassion
Grief deserves understanding rather than judgement. My role is to help you make sense of your experience with kindness, curiosity and honesty.
Practical Tools
You’ll leave with insights and practical strategies you can continue using in everyday life to support your wellbeing and gradually rebuild capacity.
Is This Right For You ?
This may be a good fit if you would like to:
✓ understand why grief feels the way it does
✓ make sense of changes in your thinking, energy or emotions
✓ stop judging yourself for struggling with everyday life
✓ learn practical ways to support your brain, body and nervous system
✓ work with someone who combines lived experience with neuroscience-informed understanding, somatic practices and mindfulness.
Every session begins with understanding your unique experience of grief and the challenges you’re facing right now.
Together we’ll explore what is contributing to those challenges and identify practical ways to help you move forward.
Depending on your needs, we might work together to:
- understand how grief is affecting your brain, body and nervous system
- make sense of reduced concentration, exhaustion or emotional overwhelm
- untangle guilt, self-blame or difficult thoughts
- explore practical ways to rebuild capacity for work and everyday life
- develop personalised strategies that support your wellbeing beyond our session
You don’t need to prepare, have the right words or know exactly what you need. We simply begin where you are.
Many grief conversations focus primarily on emotions.
While emotions are an important part of grief, they’re only one part of the picture.
My work also explores what happens in the brain, body and nervous system after loss, and how these changes can affect concentration, memory, energy, motivation, relationships and everyday functioning.
Understanding these changes often brings enormous relief. It helps explain why life suddenly feels so much harder and replaces self-judgement with self-understanding.
From there, we work together to gently rebuild your capacity using neuroscience-informed education, mindfulness, movement-based practices where appropriate, and practical strategies that fit your life.
Those who have lost someone they love deeply and sense that something has shifted in a way they can’t fully explain.
People who look like they are coping in everyday life but don’t feel like themselves anymore.
You may be functioning on the outside while carrying emotional exhaustion, sudden waves of grief, or a nervous system that feels constantly on edge.
You are thoughtful. Capable and performing. Self-aware with a sense of responsibility. You show up in life and do what needs to be done.
And yet, you don’t recognise your soul, your body, and at times, you still feel vulnerable to overwhelm in ways that are exhausting.
My work is educational and supportive rather than psychotherapy or crisis intervention.
It is designed to help you better understand your experience of grief and develop practical ways of navigating life after loss.
If you’re experiencing severe mental health difficulties, are at immediate risk of harm, or need urgent support, I encourage you to contact your GP, local emergency services or an appropriate mental health crisis service.
If you’re already working with a therapist, psychologist or counsellor, my work can often complement that support, but it isn’t a replacement for mental health treatment.
About Me
After losing my father as a child, my younger brother as a teenager, and later my older brother and my mother, I became deeply interested in understanding why grief changes so much more than our emotions.
Today my work brings together lived experience, neuroscience, mindfulness and years of supporting people through loss.
My aim isn’t to fix grief or rush it. It’s to help you develop your own way to carry grief, understand what’s happening, reduce unnecessary self-blame and find ways to participate more fully in life again.
Pratical Details
One-to-one online sessions
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: Zoom
Investment: £125
Each session includes:
- a personalised guided mindfulness audio created specifically for you (optional)
- practical recommendations where appropriate
- space to ask questions
- no expectation to commit to ongoing sessions
Some people find one conversation is enough. Others choose to return for a few sessions.
We’ll decide together what feels most helpful for you.
Client Testimonials
“I wasn’t sure what to expect because I’d never spoken to anyone about my grief before. What surprised me most was how much sense everything suddenly made. I’d been convinced I was just becoming careless or incapable, but understanding what grief was doing to my brain and body completely changed how I saw myself. I left feeling lighter for the first time in a long time.”
– Christine, 38 (Bristol)
“I cried, I laughed, I learned a huge amount and, somehow, I felt much calmer by the end of the first hour already. Sylvia has a way of explaining things that is incredibly reassuring. It felt good to be talking to someone who really gets it. Grief feels less scary now, I know it will always be here and. I know how to carry it better”
– James, 57 (Leeds)
“The biggest shift for me wasn’t emotional, it was practical. I could finally see why work had become so difficult, why I kept forgetting things and why I was so exhausted all the time. Instead of beating myself up, I started making small changes that actually helped. I wish I’d had these conversations with Sylvia much earlier.”
– Debbie, 42 (Reading)
“I never felt rushed or analysed. Sylvia listened in a way that helped me understand myself better, and she asked questions that gently opened doors I’d never thought to look behind. She gave me tools to participate in life again, to hold grief in a way that feels manageable and keep the relationship with my loved one forward”
– Pamela 67 (Maidenhead)
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