What we help with
Grief & loss
Bereavement, endings, and the chapters that ask a lot.
Grief is the natural response to losing someone or something that mattered, including bereavement, the end of a relationship, a diagnosis, or a major life change. It is not an illness, but when grief becomes prolonged, overwhelming or tangled with guilt, trauma or depression, professional support helps. The Mind Faculty offers grief counselling and therapy at our clinic in Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, and by video.
Grief isn't only about death, it follows any significant loss, and it rarely moves in tidy stages. There's no timetable and no right way to do it. Sometimes it simply helps to have someone steady to sit with it alongside you.
By the numbers
American Psychiatric Association · meta-analyses
Common signs
- Waves of sadness, longing or numbness
- Difficulty accepting the loss
- Trouble sleeping or eating
- Withdrawing from others
- Guilt, anger or regret
- Feeling adrift, or that life has lost meaning
Signs vary from person to person, you don't need to recognise all of these, or be sure it's grief & loss, to reach out.
How we can help
Grief & loss care at The Mind Faculty
Grief support here is not about getting over it or moving on to a schedule. It's about having a steady, skilled person alongside you while you find a way to carry the loss. Sessions go at your pace and can be short-term or ongoing.
Where grief has become stuck, where it's complicated by trauma, guilt or an ambivalent relationship, or where it has tipped into depression, our psychologists and psychiatrists can offer more structured therapy and, if needed, medical support for sleep or mood.
Art psychotherapy is a particularly gentle route for grief that is hard to put into words, and family sessions can help households grieving the same loss in different ways.
The faculty
Specialists in Grief & loss
These members of the faculty work with this regularly. Not sure who fits? Tell us a little about what's going on and we'll help you choose.
Questions people ask
About grief & loss, answered
When should I seek help for grief?
There's no fixed timeline. If grief is making it hard to function months on, if you feel stuck or numb, if guilt or trauma around the loss keeps looping, or if you simply want somewhere to put it, those are all good reasons to reach out.
What is prolonged grief disorder?
Prolonged grief disorder is diagnosed when intense grief, longing or preoccupation with the loss persists beyond a year for adults, six months for children, and significantly disrupts daily life. It affects roughly one in ten bereaved people, and it responds well to targeted therapy.
Do you help with losses other than death?
Yes. Divorce and separation, miscarriage, infertility, migration, retirement, the loss of health or a role, and anticipatory grief when someone is dying are all real losses. Grief support applies to all of them.
Can children get grief support?
Yes. Children grieve differently from adults and often in bursts. Our child therapists and art psychotherapist work with young people, and we can help parents understand how to support a grieving child at home.
If any of this rings true, it's worth a conversation.
Not sure where you fit? That's entirely normal, we'll help you find the right specialist.
Content reviewed by The Mind Faculty clinical team, a faculty of psychiatrists, psychologists and therapists in Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur. This page is general information, not a diagnosis. Talk to us about your own situation.