Find Grief Psychotherapists in Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Grief is a normal response to a death rather than an illness. Most people come through it without treatment ¹. Counselling helps some people carry it.

The work covers the person who died, the circumstances, and what has changed since. For a smaller number, grief stays intense and daily life does not resume. Clinicians call that prolonged grief disorder, and they treat it differently.

Grief does not run to a timetable. Ask a practitioner whether they work with bereavement. Say what kind of loss it was.

Everyone on this page describes their work as psychotherapy. A psychotherapist works through talking with you about your thoughts, feelings and behaviours ².

Psychotherapy usually runs longer than counselling and aims for clinical change. It works on patterns that repeat rather than on one current problem.

A psychotherapist trains in psychological treatment rather than in medicine. What that training covers, and which approach a practitioner uses, differ between practitioners. Ask which approach a psychotherapist trained in, and how long they usually work.

Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital - Adult Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic. Phone +852 2595 7609. An eligible person pays HKD250 for each specialist outpatient attendance, plus HKD20 for each drug item. Fee waivers are available. The clinic is for adults. You need a referral letter from a doctor registered in Hong Kong.