This Thing Called Grief Counselling & Wellness Centre

About This Thing Called Grief Counselling & Wellness Centre

This Thing Called Grief is a non-profit mental health organization located on Shore Road in the River Bend neighbourhood of London, Ontario. The centre provides compassionate grief counselling, bereavement support, and social work services to individuals, couples, and families in the local area and surrounding communities. Their mission is to offer accessible wellness support that honours each person's unique experience of loss while helping them build resilience and move toward healing. The centre offers a variety of specialized services, including individual grief counselling, couples guidance, and family systems support. Specific areas of expertise include supporting those navigating the loss of a child, a spouse or partner, a pet, or a pregnancy, as well as processing divorce, separation, and immigration-related loss. They also provide support for chronic illness, terminal diagnoses, and identity loss due to health events. Additionally, the centre offers dedicated MAiD support for those experiencing medically assisted dying, alongside services for anxiety, depression, and palliative care. For those seeking immediate connection while waiting for long-term support, they facilitate online support groups. The practice is rooted in lived experience, with a team of social workers and specialists who describe their approach as being shaped by their own personal journeys of loss, caregiving, and trauma. They emphasize a holistic, person-centered approach that integrates emotional, social, and psychological care. The centre describes itself as a safe, non-judgmental space where clients can process emotions at their own pace. To begin the process, the centre offers a free 20-minute consultation to help create a personalized healing plan.