Books & writing
Psychology for the experiences that change us
Books, guides and a weekly letter for people living through loss, and for the professionals who support them.
HarperCollins, 2024 · Paperback, ebook, audiobook
The Loss Prescription
A compassionate, psychologically grounded guide to grief, loss and healing.
This is not a book about the five stages of grief. It does not offer a checklist for recovery or a promise that things will be fine if you follow the right steps. It recognises grief as an expression of love, meaning and attachment, and draws on 25 years of clinical practice, counselling psychology, existential insight and the neuroscience of grief.
It is widely read by people navigating personal loss and by professionals in health, mental health, education and caring roles.
Forthcoming
The Stranger Within
What happened between you and yourself while your life was happening to you?
The Loss Prescription maps the losses we grieve. The Stranger Within turns to the one we rarely notice: the loss of our relationship with ourselves. It explores how a life can look fine from the outside and stop feeling like our own, and what brings us back into presence, connection and meaning.
Therapeutic guides
Guides for particular losses
Seven practical, psychologically grounded companions, including a free guide to begin with.
Divorce · Traumatic loss · Joy in grief · Journaling