The Grief Clinic
Specialist psychological therapy for bereavement, traumatic grief and invisible loss. Online, from London, for clients worldwide.
Explore the clinicChartered Counselling Psychologist · Author · Founder, The Grief Clinic
We grieve more than people. We grieve the selves we lose along the way.
I am Dr Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell, an existential psychologist with 25 years’ experience in grief, trauma and invisible loss. My work asks what it takes to stay present, whole and in relationship with yourself and others when life breaks the shape of who you were.
Heard and read on
- BBC Radio 4
- BBC Radio 2
- CNN International
- The Guardian
- The Telegraph
- HuffPost
The work
Not every loss involves a death. Most of them are never named.
For twenty-five years I have sat with people through bereavement, illness, divorce, redundancy, estrangement and trauma. What they grieve is rarely only the event. It is the person they were before it, the future they had imagined, and the ease with which they once lived inside their own life.
Many of us keep functioning through all of it. We perform, achieve and stay busy, while something quieter goes missing: our relationship with ourselves, and with the people and life around us. I think of it as a muted dissociation, and as a loss in its own right. The loss of me.
My work brings the depth of grief psychology and existential therapy to that loss. Grief is not a problem to be solved. It is an expression of love, meaning and attachment, and it can become the way back to a fuller life.
- Relationships
- Health
- Identity
- Belonging
- Certainty
- Possibility
- The future we expected
- Ourselves
Ways in
Three ways to work with me
Speaking & consulting
Keynotes, workshops and psychological consulting on invisible loss, change and what people quietly carry into work.
Work with organisations
Books & writing
The Loss Prescription, therapeutic guides, and The Anchored Letter, a weekly essay on grief and the return to self.
Read the work
Founded by Dr Chloe · Loss changes us. So does love.
A specialist practice for the losses that change us: bereavement, traumatic grief, illness, relationship breakdown and the quieter losses of identity, belonging and self.
Every client works directly with Dr Chloe. Therapy draws on existential psychology, trauma science, attachment and compassion-focused approaches, shaped around the person rather than a stage model of grief.
The book · HarperCollins, 2024
The Loss Prescription
This is not a book about the five stages of grief. It offers no checklist, and no promise that things will be fine if you follow the right steps.
Drawing on 25 years of clinical practice, existential insight and the neuroscience of grief, The Loss Prescription treats grief as an expression of love, meaning and attachment, and offers a practical roadmap for living with it. It is read by people navigating their own losses and by professionals in health, education and care.
Coming next: The Stranger Within, on self-estrangement and the way back to ourselves. About the new book
What clients say
Language for what people silently carry
In the aftermath of team trauma, Dr Chloe offered insight and steadiness when we needed it most. Our team is better for it.
Her webinar gave language to what so many of us had silently carried. It opened the door to a new way of caring for each other at work.
Human, trauma-informed and refreshingly honest. She doesn’t just talk about support; she models it.
Organisations Dr Chloe has worked with
- Goldman Sachs
- Allen & Overy
- Freshfields
- Cleary Gottlieb
- Weil Gotshal
- Sidley Austin
- BNP Paribas
- Accenture
- Aviva
- Allianz
- Ogilvy
- Tesco
- EBRD
- Clyde & Co
- Department for Transport
- This Can Happen
The Anchored Letter · Every Wednesday
An essay a week on grief, loss and the return to self
Written from the clinic, for anyone living through a change that has no name yet.
Free on Substack
One essay. One practice. One reframe.
From a clinician who has spent 25 years sitting with the full weight of human loss.