Grief Therapists in Winnipeg, MB
Are you feeling stuck or overwhelmed by past experiences that continue to affect you? Whether you are dealing with trauma, anxiety, depression or negative thought patterns, healing is possible, and you don't have to do it alone. I specialize in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a proven therapeutic approach that helps you process and release the emotional charge tied to past events. EMDR allows you to reframe unhelpful beliefs, reduce emotional distress and build healthier coping strategies. I also specialize in supporting individuals through the emotional impacts of birth and reproductive trauma.
Are you feeling stuck or overwhelmed by past experiences that continue to affect you? Whether you are dealing with trauma, anxiety, depression or negative thought patterns, healing is possible, and you don't have to do it alone. I specialize in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a proven therapeutic approach that helps you process and release the emotional charge tied to past events. EMDR allows you to reframe unhelpful beliefs, reduce emotional distress and build healthier coping strategies. I also specialize in supporting individuals through the emotional impacts of birth and reproductive trauma.
I specialize in addressing mental health challenges, grief and loss, supporting those who identify as victims, or survivors of crime and trauma work.
With 20 years of experience in adult mental health, I am committed to creating a safe, inclusive space for every client. I understand that each individual’s challenges are shaped by unique and complex circumstances. My goal is to provide the support, understanding, and guidance you need to navigate these experiences and move forward with confidence.
I specialize in addressing mental health challenges, grief and loss, supporting those who identify as victims, or survivors of crime and trauma work.
With 20 years of experience in adult mental health, I am committed to creating a safe, inclusive space for every client. I understand that each individual’s challenges are shaped by unique and complex circumstances. My goal is to provide the support, understanding, and guidance you need to navigate these experiences and move forward with confidence.
For over a decade I have supported teens (16+), young adults, and families through challenges such as grief, end of life, anxiety, ADHD, trauma, emotion dysregulation, and relationship struggles.
My approach is client-centred, compassionate, and collaborative. I believe in the strength you already hold, and I will walk with you through whatever you are facing. I am trained in EMDR and I draw on a variety of therapeutic tools including Solution-Focused, Narrative, DBT, Emotion-Focused Family Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy-Youth, & ERP for OCD.
For over a decade I have supported teens (16+), young adults, and families through challenges such as grief, end of life, anxiety, ADHD, trauma, emotion dysregulation, and relationship struggles.
My approach is client-centred, compassionate, and collaborative. I believe in the strength you already hold, and I will walk with you through whatever you are facing. I am trained in EMDR and I draw on a variety of therapeutic tools including Solution-Focused, Narrative, DBT, Emotion-Focused Family Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy-Youth, & ERP for OCD.
If you are feeling stuck in your thoughts, feelings, or behaviours due to issues such as family conflict, relationship issues, trauma, mental health issues, loss, or addictions, therapy can help you to grow and connect with yourself and those close to you again.
Through our work together, you can create new stories based on your unique view of the world. These new stories can help you step into your own power, and let go of what no longer belongs to you. Let’s work together to bring back perspective and liveliness into your life and relationships in creative, adaptive, trauma informed, empowering, and safe ways.
If you are feeling stuck in your thoughts, feelings, or behaviours due to issues such as family conflict, relationship issues, trauma, mental health issues, loss, or addictions, therapy can help you to grow and connect with yourself and those close to you again.
Through our work together, you can create new stories based on your unique view of the world. These new stories can help you step into your own power, and let go of what no longer belongs to you. Let’s work together to bring back perspective and liveliness into your life and relationships in creative, adaptive, trauma informed, empowering, and safe ways.
Tansi, Boozhoo, Aaniin - Welcome and thank you for being here.
My name is Krista Speer, and my spirit name is White Turtle Woman From the North. I am a proud Indigenous woman, and a Mental Health Counsellor. I am a lifelong learner, currently a Masters in Social Work candidate. I bring years of experience facilitating children, youth, adults, families and communities on their healing journeys.
Tansi, Boozhoo, Aaniin - Welcome and thank you for being here.
My name is Krista Speer, and my spirit name is White Turtle Woman From the North. I am a proud Indigenous woman, and a Mental Health Counsellor. I am a lifelong learner, currently a Masters in Social Work candidate. I bring years of experience facilitating children, youth, adults, families and communities on their healing journeys.
I have taken an special interest in understanding grief, and what it means to process loss.
Welcome here! I believe we all have the capacity for change and the ability to decide what kind of person we want to become. I take a warm, compassionate approach as we explore your current circumstances; together, we can focus on what works best for you as you create the changes you wish to see in your life.
I have taken an special interest in understanding grief, and what it means to process loss.
Welcome here! I believe we all have the capacity for change and the ability to decide what kind of person we want to become. I take a warm, compassionate approach as we explore your current circumstances; together, we can focus on what works best for you as you create the changes you wish to see in your life.
Trauma, grief and pain can be overwhelming to deal with alone.
I have a unique background, having moved here from the Philippines with my family when I was 15 years old. I am happy to conduct sessions in both English and Tagalog. I am also a veteran of the Royal Canadian Air Force. I have worked in a community resource centre since 2022.
Trauma, grief and pain can be overwhelming to deal with alone.
I have a unique background, having moved here from the Philippines with my family when I was 15 years old. I am happy to conduct sessions in both English and Tagalog. I am also a veteran of the Royal Canadian Air Force. I have worked in a community resource centre since 2022.
I support people navigating anxiety, depression, grief, loss, life transitions, identity shifts, and trauma, including harm caused by institutions meant to protect us.
I aim to create a welcoming, inclusive space grounded in trauma-informed and anti-oppressive care. I support people moving through grief, life transitions, and experiences that may have shaped their sense of self or safety. We will work together at your pace, exploring coping tools, understanding patterns, and moving toward meaningful change.
I support people navigating anxiety, depression, grief, loss, life transitions, identity shifts, and trauma, including harm caused by institutions meant to protect us.
I aim to create a welcoming, inclusive space grounded in trauma-informed and anti-oppressive care. I support people moving through grief, life transitions, and experiences that may have shaped their sense of self or safety. We will work together at your pace, exploring coping tools, understanding patterns, and moving toward meaningful change.
Are you struggling to manage many types of loss?
I work from a person-centered and trauma-informed lens. I believe in
using different therapeutic approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), mindfulness, an understanding of our childhood influences, and neuroscience. CBT focuses on how our unhelpful thoughts impact our lives.
Are you struggling to manage many types of loss?
I work from a person-centered and trauma-informed lens. I believe in
using different therapeutic approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), mindfulness, an understanding of our childhood influences, and neuroscience. CBT focuses on how our unhelpful thoughts impact our lives.
If you are someone who has survived a lot in your life and you carry trauma, grief, anger, etc, I help you by using a variety of tools and skills (Narrative, IFOT, Strengths-Based, etc).
If you are curious about the things you have survived and how it impacts you today, my invitation is simple: let’s get curious together. I welcome individuals and youth who are ready to explore the deeper story of their resilience, who are navigating complex life transitions, processing intergenerational or systemic trauma, or feeling disconnected from their sense of self. By weaving together the strengths of Indigenous ways of being with Western clinical therapeutic interventions, we explore with curiosity so that trauma no longer controls the present.
If you are someone who has survived a lot in your life and you carry trauma, grief, anger, etc, I help you by using a variety of tools and skills (Narrative, IFOT, Strengths-Based, etc).
If you are curious about the things you have survived and how it impacts you today, my invitation is simple: let’s get curious together. I welcome individuals and youth who are ready to explore the deeper story of their resilience, who are navigating complex life transitions, processing intergenerational or systemic trauma, or feeling disconnected from their sense of self. By weaving together the strengths of Indigenous ways of being with Western clinical therapeutic interventions, we explore with curiosity so that trauma no longer controls the present.
My work centers around recovery from addiction, trauma, grief and loss, difficult childhood experiences, and significant life transitions.
Healing begins by honouring everything that has allowed you to survive until today … and then creating a life you want to be fully present for!
I hold judgment-free space, recognizing we are all human beings managing life’s challenges the best we can.
My work centers around recovery from addiction, trauma, grief and loss, difficult childhood experiences, and significant life transitions.
Healing begins by honouring everything that has allowed you to survive until today … and then creating a life you want to be fully present for!
I hold judgment-free space, recognizing we are all human beings managing life’s challenges the best we can.
I think we would be a great fit if you want to learn more about your ADHD brain and strategies that match, process loss, make sense of something that does not yet make sense or deepen your self awareness in order to feel more settled in your daily experiences.
I am pleased to share registration is now open for the fall ADHD group! Group therapy and education for fast talkers, deep feelers and 3D thinkers.
I deeply believe in the power of balancing connection, change and radical acceptance. My hope is to help you learn how to meet the inevitability painful parts of life with humour, grace, and creativity rather than the many (very human) ways in which we avoid difficult moments.
I empower individuals with ADHD to work with our brains rather than against them and design a life that matches our interest based nervous systems not the other way around.
I think we would be a great fit if you want to learn more about your ADHD brain and strategies that match, process loss, make sense of something that does not yet make sense or deepen your self awareness in order to feel more settled in your daily experiences.
I am pleased to share registration is now open for the fall ADHD group! Group therapy and education for fast talkers, deep feelers and 3D thinkers.
I deeply believe in the power of balancing connection, change and radical acceptance. My hope is to help you learn how to meet the inevitability painful parts of life with humour, grace, and creativity rather than the many (very human) ways in which we avoid difficult moments.
I empower individuals with ADHD to work with our brains rather than against them and design a life that matches our interest based nervous systems not the other way around.
Csilla Przibislawsky DramatherapistPsychotherapist
Counsellor, MA, RDT, CCC, CCS
2 Endorsed
Winnipeg, MB R3M
I work with adults, children of all ages, adolescents and families. As an experienced clinician, I work with you to explore the many factors that may be part of what brings you to therapy right now. By the end of our first session together, you will have a very clear idea of the goals that you want to work toward, and together we will decide how we will begin to move toward them. I always work together with the client and want to make sure that the pace and treatment method is right for you.
I work with adults, children of all ages, adolescents and families. As an experienced clinician, I work with you to explore the many factors that may be part of what brings you to therapy right now. By the end of our first session together, you will have a very clear idea of the goals that you want to work toward, and together we will decide how we will begin to move toward them. I always work together with the client and want to make sure that the pace and treatment method is right for you.
Maybe you’re tired of feeling overwhelmed, stuck, in patterns that don’t feel like you, or grieving losses no on else seems to see.
Therapy isn’t about “fixing” you, it’s about helping you make sense of what’s happening inside, reconnect to what matters, and find steadiness, even when life is messy (because life IS messy). I believe healing grows from compassionate curiosity, connection and coming back to yourself. Together, we can gently explore what’s keeping you stuck.
Maybe you’re tired of feeling overwhelmed, stuck, in patterns that don’t feel like you, or grieving losses no on else seems to see.
Therapy isn’t about “fixing” you, it’s about helping you make sense of what’s happening inside, reconnect to what matters, and find steadiness, even when life is messy (because life IS messy). I believe healing grows from compassionate curiosity, connection and coming back to yourself. Together, we can gently explore what’s keeping you stuck.
If you’re tired of coping and ready to actually feel different, you’re in the right place.
Hi, I’m Sasha. I’m here to walk alongside you.
As a trauma-informed and Brainspotting therapist, I help individuals and families move beyond surface-level strategies to access deeper healing within the nervous system. Together, we reduce overwhelm, process trauma, and build stability, connection, and resilience.
I offer a grounded, supportive space where meaningful change can happen at your own pace. I am also a Registered Social Worker with 20 years of experience.
If you’re tired of coping and ready to actually feel different, you’re in the right place.
Hi, I’m Sasha. I’m here to walk alongside you.
As a trauma-informed and Brainspotting therapist, I help individuals and families move beyond surface-level strategies to access deeper healing within the nervous system. Together, we reduce overwhelm, process trauma, and build stability, connection, and resilience.
I offer a grounded, supportive space where meaningful change can happen at your own pace. I am also a Registered Social Worker with 20 years of experience.
My areas include trauma, self-esteem, complex ptsd, grief and bereavement.
I specialize in working with high-functioning adults in Winnipeg & across Manitoba who feel overwhelmed or held back by the past. At the heart of my work is a commitment to meeting you where you are—honoring your story, your pace, and your hopes for healing. My goal is to provide a safe space where you can make sense of your internal world and move toward greater clarity and well-being. I'm a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) with over ten years of clinical experience in trauma-informed care and EMDR. I also continue to deepen my expertise through specialized training and keeping up with the most current evidence-based practices.
My areas include trauma, self-esteem, complex ptsd, grief and bereavement.
I specialize in working with high-functioning adults in Winnipeg & across Manitoba who feel overwhelmed or held back by the past. At the heart of my work is a commitment to meeting you where you are—honoring your story, your pace, and your hopes for healing. My goal is to provide a safe space where you can make sense of your internal world and move toward greater clarity and well-being. I'm a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) with over ten years of clinical experience in trauma-informed care and EMDR. I also continue to deepen my expertise through specialized training and keeping up with the most current evidence-based practices.
Maybe you find yourself in a place of fear and uncertainty, experiencing the pain of loss, struggling with the unknown territory of grief?
I offer counselling, meditation, mindfulness and self-compassion skills. We may address such issues as: grief, transition, personal growth and transformation, finding meaning and purpose, women's health, caregiver/parental stress, workplace wellness and living with acute/chronic illness. I am experienced in facilitating groups, workshops and retreats.
Maybe you find yourself in a place of fear and uncertainty, experiencing the pain of loss, struggling with the unknown territory of grief?
I offer counselling, meditation, mindfulness and self-compassion skills. We may address such issues as: grief, transition, personal growth and transformation, finding meaning and purpose, women's health, caregiver/parental stress, workplace wellness and living with acute/chronic illness. I am experienced in facilitating groups, workshops and retreats.
Welcome! Are you looking for new and effective ways to cope with anxiety/worry? Trying to bounce back from a depression or past trauma? I will support you to discover your strengths and help you make the changes you need to get on the road to feeling whole. You are the expert on your situation, meaning you hold a solution to the challenges you face. That doesn't mean it is easy, you might feel so overwhelmed that you can't see any way to improve or escape your difficult situation. This is where counselling can help.
Welcome! Are you looking for new and effective ways to cope with anxiety/worry? Trying to bounce back from a depression or past trauma? I will support you to discover your strengths and help you make the changes you need to get on the road to feeling whole. You are the expert on your situation, meaning you hold a solution to the challenges you face. That doesn't mean it is easy, you might feel so overwhelmed that you can't see any way to improve or escape your difficult situation. This is where counselling can help.
My methods usually involve motivational interviewing, brief/solution-focused therapy, and prolonged grief therapy.
Using the best approach for each person, we work together to build on strengths to find a pathway forward. My areas of interest are in grief, ambiguous loss, disability, stress management, managing life transitions, and conflict resolution. I have also supported individuals who have experienced disasters and conflict both locally and internationally.
My methods usually involve motivational interviewing, brief/solution-focused therapy, and prolonged grief therapy.
Using the best approach for each person, we work together to build on strengths to find a pathway forward. My areas of interest are in grief, ambiguous loss, disability, stress management, managing life transitions, and conflict resolution. I have also supported individuals who have experienced disasters and conflict both locally and internationally.
As a Marriage and family therapist I work with both individuals and couples from diverse backgrounds using a systemic and relational-cultural lens. I have experience supporting clients navigating anxiety, relationship conflicts, grief and loss, childhood trauma, and racial trauma. I also specialize in supporting newcomers and immigrants to navigate post-migration stressors and other diasporic experiences.
Together, we’ll explore patterns that keep you feeling stuck and find ways to move forward, so you can feel more grounded, connected, and confident in your relationships and yourself.
As a Marriage and family therapist I work with both individuals and couples from diverse backgrounds using a systemic and relational-cultural lens. I have experience supporting clients navigating anxiety, relationship conflicts, grief and loss, childhood trauma, and racial trauma. I also specialize in supporting newcomers and immigrants to navigate post-migration stressors and other diasporic experiences.
Together, we’ll explore patterns that keep you feeling stuck and find ways to move forward, so you can feel more grounded, connected, and confident in your relationships and yourself.
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How long does therapy take for grief?
There is no exact timeline for grief counseling. Some people may start to feel better after just a few sessions, while others may take months or longer to feel relief. Some specific approaches, including some types of CBT, may involve a set number of sessions, or therapy may be open-ended until the patient determines they are ready to wrap up. Just as there is no right or wrong way to grieve, there is no right or wrong way to seek therapy for grief.
When should you seek therapy for grief?
Many people mistakenly believe that their grief needs to be debilitating or all-encompassing to warrant therapy. This is not the case. While people who experience severe, prolonged grief—particularly those who are considering self-harm or engaging in unhealthy substance use—are especially likely to benefit from therapy, so too are people whose grief is less intense but still interfering with well-being or daily functioning. In practice, almost anyone struggling to process a loss could benefit from grief counseling.
Can grief be managed without therapy?
Oftentimes, yes. Grief is a near-universal part of being human, and many find that their grief, while profound, does not stop them from participating in day-to-day life and steadily eases over time without outside help. For others, however, the harsh pain of early grief persists for months or years or leaves them unable to function. This group is especially likely to benefit from seeing a therapist, who can guide them through their grief and help them reconnect with the world.
What happens if grief is left untreated?
Because grief does not in itself necessitate therapy, untreated grief will often resolve on its own. However, for some people—particularly those who would qualify for a diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder—untreated grief can be a source of seemingly endless pain or lead them to withdraw from the world. In such cases, treatment can be indispensable, as it can help an individual adapt to the loss and start living again.