Leila Chen

About

I am a therapist for people who have lost somebody and are finding that the world carried on without adjusting. My clients are usually competent, employed, and quietly astonished at how much effort ordinary functioning now requires of them. Losing someone changes the arithmetic of a day. Tasks that used to cost nothing now cost something, and the accumulated total is tiring in a way that is impossible to explain to anybody who has not been through it. We take the arithmetic seriously rather than treating fatigue as a failure of will. Most people find that being believed about the cost is itself a relief. Almost all my clients arrive by recommendation, generally from people who found it useful to have one hour where nothing had to be explained. That is what is on offer. If ordinary functioning has become expensive, get in touch. Being believed about the cost is not a small thing.