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Creative Grief Support

Art Therapy Grief Group for Adults

A supportive group where adults can make space for bereavement and other significant losses through art, reflection, and connection. Grief is not treated as a fixed sequence, and participants are never required to create or speak about the loss in one prescribed way.

A Different Way to Carry Grief

Images Can Hold Love, Anger, Absence, Memory, and Change Together

Creative work can support remembrance, continuing bonds, identity after loss, and feelings that shift from day to day. The group offers recognition from others without comparing whose grief is hardest or pushing closure.

This is therapy, not a memorial workshop or crisis service. Screening helps determine timing and fit.

Group Information

A Carefully Facilitated Space for Loss

Format

Therapist-led adult grief art therapy

Losses

Cohort focus confirmed before registration

Schedule

Current dates and session length on request

Fees

Coverage and payment verified in advance

Hands using art materials during a creative therapeutic activity

Who May Join

For Adults Seeking Company Without Losing Privacy

People grieve deaths and other life-altering losses differently. Screening clarifies the cohort focus and whether a participant’s needs can be supported safely in a group.

What We May Explore

Memory, Meaning, Continuing Bonds, and Daily Life

Sessions are organized around three connected practices: Use images, objects, or symbols to hold connection and memory; Make room for contradictory emotions without grading the grief response; Explore identity, routines, relationships, and meaning in changed circumstances.

Remember

Use images, objects, or symbols to hold connection and memory.

Express

Make room for contradictory emotions without grading the grief response.

Reorient

Explore identity, routines, relationships, and meaning in changed circumstances.

Our Therapists

Meet Our Therapists

Every therapist brings a unique combination of expertise, compassion, and lived understanding.

Registered Psychotherapist, Certified Canadian Counsellor
Art Therapist and Registered Psychotherapist RCAT, RP
Registered Psychotherapist
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Grief Group FAQ
Questions About Adult Grief Art Therapy

Each cohort should state its focus, such as bereavement or a broader range of losses. Confirm before registration to ensure the group fits your experience.

There is no universal timeline. Screening considers stability, support, the group format, and what would be most helpful now.

No. You choose the focus, materials, and level of disclosure. Ordinary life, identity, anger, rest, and future concerns may also be relevant.

The goal is not to erase attachment or force closure. Therapy can help you carry the relationship and the reality of change in a way that supports living.

Possibly, but trauma symptoms and safety may require individual or specialized support before or alongside a group.

No fixed stage sequence describes everyone. The group makes room for varied and recurring grief responses.

Possibly, depending on the clinician’s credential and plan. Confirm benefits before enrolment.

Ask About the Next Grief Group

Contact Therapedia Centre to discuss cohort focus, timing, screening, fees, and whether the group fits your loss.

OUR LOCATIONS

Toronto, Ontario

Pape & Danforth

Yonge & Bloor

Sheppard & Yonge