Are you experiencing anxiety or fear of what happens during the dying process?
Are you struggling with feelings of anxiety, guilt, or anger from bereavment?
Are you not functioning well due to significant life losses, such as divorce or losing a job / home, that you’re struggling to come to terms with?
A holistic approach (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual) to take people feeling frozen in fear, anxiety or grief further along their life journey to acceptance and happiness again than they can go on their own.
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Featured Services
Welcome to Grief Support Services
Providing life-changing therapy, coaching and training for individuals, families and organisations to find meaning and hope while navigating the complexities of living with life losses, the dying process and bereavement.
I’m Santou and it would be a pleasure to help.
I currently have some availability.
Please enquire at 07707138114

Counselling / Talking Therapy
For significant living losses and grief from traumatic deaths. Flexible number of sessions with a highly trained grief specialist.

Parenting Coach for the Widowed
Support for bereaved single parents, and individuals to learn how to cope with transitions, living losses, and death.

Professional Development
Live online bereavement training and presentations to learn how to support the bereaved appropriately.
Are you:
- debilitated by feelings of guilt, anger or shame from a traumatic death?
- not functioning well due to life losses, such as divorce or losing a home/your homeland, that you struggle to come to terms with?
My expertise and approach to traumatic grief support has helped people to get unstuck, adapt to loss and rebuild their lives sooner.
Scroll down for testimonials.
Featured Services

Counselling / Talking Therapy
For significant living losses and grief from traumatic deaths. Flexible number of sessions with a highly trained grief specialist.

Parenting Coach for the Widowed
Support for bereaved single parents, and individuals to learn how to cope with transitions, living losses, and death.

Web-classes and
Consultancy
Live online bereavement training and presentations to learn how to support the bereaved appropriately.
I currently have some availability.
07707138114
The problem with unresolved grief
Finding a listening ear to process the guilt, anger, shattered future dreams and the meaning of the loss can become difficult over time, as people expect you to ‘get on with life’. Yet, if we suppress our emotions to ‘get on with life’ it could:
- adversey impact on our health, e.g. disrupt our sleep and/or manifest into medically unexplained adverse physical symptoms
- negatively impact on our relationships at work and in our family
- develop into substance misuse/addiction to numb the pain of loss
- leave us without a sense of hope and develop into suicidal thoughts or intent
It could develop into a prolonged grief causing you to suffer unnecessarily for an extended period of time.
I walk with you on your journey until you feel courageous enough to continue that journey without me.
What will you get when working with me therapeutically & spiritually?
- emotional support: empathy, without judgement or criticism, to enable you to explore your emotional landscape and fully express yourself
- spiritual support: exploration of beliefs, unexplained occurences, greater meaning, ceremonies, etc. to ease your suffering and pain
- practical support: handout and booklet resources, where to find financial support, etc. to help with important discussions
- awareness/learning support: the whole body impact of grief on you (physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually) to help you find ways for natural self-care (without the use of long-term medication)
Life-changing benefits:
- Reduction in low mood/’depression’, flashbacks, suicidal thoughts, risk of divorce, or family estrangement
- Improved relationships and the ability to articulate your needs
- Getting unstuck in order to help you integrate the grief and function effectively going forward
- Healing from bad/toxic theology and religious trauma, and growing spiritually
- Emotional strength, resilience and the courage to rebuild your life and live fully again
- Smiling, laughing or experiencing glimmers of joy again without feeling guilty
- Developing self-compassion and expanding in your compassion for others
- Remembering the passing and memory of your departed with more love and lightness than pain
What will you get when working with me therapeutically & spiritually?
- A sacred, protected space to relax and heal
- Empathy (a listening ear without judgement or criticism) to enable you to explore your emotional landscape and fully express yourself
- Deep, meaningful exchanges devoted to easing your suffering and pain
- Therapeutic tools, such as the use of creative arts (drawing, writing, sound healing/singing, play) if you would find that helpful
- Learning about the whole body impact of grief on you physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually and helping you find ways for natural self-care without the use of long-term medication
Life-changing benefits:
- Reduction in low mood/’depression’, flashbacks, suicidal thoughts, risk of divorce, or family estrangement
- Improved relationships and the ability to articulate your needs
- Getting unstuck in order to help you integrate the grief and function effectively going forward
- Healing from bad/toxic theology and religious trauma, and growing spiritually
- Emotional strength, resilience and the courage to rebuild your life and live fully again
- Smiling, laughing or experiencing glimmers of joy again without feeling guilty
- Developing self-compassion and expanding in your compassion for others
- Remembering the passing and memory of your departed with more love and lightness than pain

My Professional Journey in Offering Grief Support – About Me
My name is Santou and my professional experience in the field of trauma, loss, end-of-life and bereavement began 25 years ago.
Pivotal life, faith and professional experiences have led me to practising as an recognised Chaplain and Psychotherapist to support individuals / families at vulnerable times with living losses from life changes, as well as life-limiting illnesses, and post-death bereavement.
No matter your faith, denomination, cultural beliefs – whether you consider yourself a humanist or athiest – my approach is all-inclusive.
To read more about my life experiences that led me to specialise in the field of loss and grief, please see the About Me page.
contact@griefsupport.co
07707138114
contact@griefsupport.co
07707138114
Services are delivered online via:
● Video ● Telephone
● Email ● IM Text Chat
The fees for the services vary so please enquire.
For examples of the rates, please see the About Me page.
Reach out to arrange your session - get a bonus resource after booking
Grief Support Services are delivered online via:
● Video ● IM Text Chat
● Email ● Telephone
The fee across the services varies so please enquire.
For more information about fees, please see the About Me page.
Reach out today to arrange your 60-minute session
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken; and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through [and grow]. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly – that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
– Annie Lamot
Services

Limiting/Terminal Illnesses
Support for an expected loss from life-limiting illnesses ranging from long-term health conditions to end-of-life care.

Parenting Coach for the Widowed
Support for bereaved single parents, and individuals to learn how to cope with transitions, living losses, and death.

Counselling / Talking Therapy
For significant living losses and grief from traumatic deaths. Flexible number of sessions with a highly trained grief specialist.

Facilitated
Support Groups
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Conversation Cafés
- Resilient Parenting for the bereaved

Web-classes and
Consultancy
Live online bereavement training and presentations for employees, and volunteers to learn to support appropriately.
Testimonials
“I would definitely recommend Santou who has a wealth of understanding and knowledge in supporting those of us who have experienced loss, trauma or grief. She is non-judgemental and has shown me warmth, acceptance and empathy. She has provided emotional and practical support and helped me to become more self-aware and not give up hope. The incredible support I have received has helped me feel I am not alone, and I am truly grateful for and will always appreciate her care, attention and patience with me.”
– Julie
“She was able to help me reconcile my challenges with the fact that I am not alone and there are many others going through similar challenges. This gave me hope which, at the time, I was very short of. You would be amazed how much hope can help transform your physical, emotional and psychological state.”
– Fola
Blog
Spiritually Transformative Experiences
Sometimes we have experiences about our deceased loved ones that are difficult to explain, but can leave us transformed by the experience and with a sense of hope about the after life.
For more articles, please click here.
“Santou gave me insight, hope and guidance. She was very supportive.”
– Sanah