A directory of therapists

Someone to talk to when life is coming to an end, or has changed for good.

Therapists who list support around serious illness, dying and bereavement, for the person who is ill and for the people around them.

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3,798 profiles: 3,053 in the United States, 675 in the United Kingdom and 70 in Australia.

Where are you right now?

Start with whichever is closest. Each link leads to therapists who list that topic; the number shows how many.

Facing a diagnosis

You, or someone close to you, has been told an illness is serious or will not get better. Fear, low mood, poor sleep and a life that suddenly looks different.

Caring for someone

Looking after a partner, parent or child who is ill, often alongside work, money worries and the rest of the family.

Anticipating a loss

Knowing that someone is likely to die, or that you are. Things left unsaid, old family history, anger, guilt and questions about meaning.

After a death

Grief in the weeks, months and years afterwards, including a death that was sudden, traumatic or complicated by the relationship you had.

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What a therapist here can and cannot do

It helps to know this before you start reading profiles.

What they offer

Regular time to talk with someone trained to listen, about illness, dying, caring or grief, or about anything else that is weighing on you.
Space to think through conversations you find hard, for example with family, children or the people providing care.
Sessions that take place online through BetterHelp, rather than in an office.

What they are not

They are not hospice, palliative care or medical providers. They do not treat illness, manage pain or symptoms, or give medical advice.
They do not arrange care, nursing, equipment or funeral services, and they are not a substitute for the team caring for someone who is ill.
No profile can tell you how therapy will go, and no therapist can promise a particular outcome.

Listing hospice and end-of-life counseling as a focus area is not, on its own, evidence of specialist training. If that matters to you, ask the therapist about it.