When grief is heavier than you can carry alone.
A calm, compassionate space for adults navigating loss. Whether your grief is recent or carried for years, you are met where you are, without expectation or urgency.
WELCOME
The story behind Kocho Serenity
Kocho means butterfly in Japanese. The butterfly was chosen for what it carries about grief: that we do not come through it unchanged. The person who emerges on the other side of loss is rarely the person who entered it. Something has shifted, even if quietly, and a new version of ourselves begins to learn how to move through a world that no longer holds the person we lost.
Serenity holds the rest of what this practice is about. The calm, unhurried quality the work needs. A space where transformation can unfold at its own pace, without pressure to arrive anywhere in particular.
ABOUT
Built on lived understanding and clinical depth
A psychologist who works with grief
I'm Dr Hannah Green, a Forensic and Clinical Psychologist registered with the HCPC. I work with adults moving through grief and loss.
Whether the death was last month or twenty years ago, whether the relationship was simple or complicated, whether you've been to therapy before or this is your first time.
There is space here for all of it.
What I understand about grief
Grief rarely arrives as one feeling. It can be numbness, then a wave of something sharper. It can be guilt sitting alongside love. It can be the sense that everyone around you has moved on while you are still standing in the same place. It can be the quiet shame of wondering why you are not coping better.
None of this means something has gone wrong. Grief is rarely tidy, and it rarely runs to anyone else's schedule.
Where my understanding comes from
Years of clinical work within mental health services has shown me how grief reaches into every part of a person's life: how they feel, how they think, how they relate to the people still around them.
In March 2021 I lost one of my parents. What I had read, studied, and supported others through did not prepare me for what it was like to live inside it. The confusion was disorienting in a way I had not expected. The intensity arrived in waves I could not predict.
I was grieving alongside people who loved the same person, and even there, in shared loss, I felt alone.
Each of us was carrying something different, even though the loss looked the same from outside. That experience shaped how I understand this work.
Lived experience does not replace clinical training. It sits underneath it.
What I bring
Warmth, steadiness, and a willingness to stay close to what is difficult. The work depends on you feeling safe in the space we build together, and that takes time to grow. You do not need to arrive knowing what to say. You only need to arrive.
QUALIFICATIONS
Doctorate in Clinical and Forensic Psychology (University of Birmingham)
MSc in Forensic Psychology (University of Leicester)
BSc in Psychology (University of Lancaster)
Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR)
Dyadic Development Psychotherapy Training (Level One)
HOW I WORK
No two griefs are the same. No two pieces of work look the same either.
Our sessions together draw on three core modalities, used singly or in combination. Offered online and in person, with regular review points so you remain in control of the work.
Psychoeducation
How grief affects the brain and body is often more than people expect. Understanding what is happening underneath the feelings can take some of the fear out of them, so the intensity becomes less mysterious and more manageable.
Compassion Focused Therapy
A way of working with the parts of grief that turn inward, where you may be hard on yourself, full of guilt, or carrying shame. The work builds the capacity to meet yourself with the same care you would offer someone you love.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
Often known as EMDR. A structured approach that helps the brain process memories or moments that feel stuck. Where the pain of certain images, conversations, or events has not softened with time, EMDR can help them settle.
FAQS
Questions you might be holding.
GET IN TOUCH
You do not need to know what to say.
A first message commits you to nothing. If you are unsure whether therapy is right for you, that is alright too.
We can talk it through together.