Grief Support Groups in Nashua, NH

After the unexpected death of his wife, Irish author C.S. Lewis wrote in A Grief Observed, "No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. The death of a beloved is an amputation."


While dealing with grief is not easy, we provide information on grief support groups in Nashua, NH on this section of our website. Should you need additional support in grieving your loss or grief resources, please call us. We will do everything we can to assist you.

Grief Support For Adults

  • Home Health and Hospice-Bereavement Services in New Hampshire

    Bereavement services are available to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one. Serving individuals throughout Southern New Hampshire.

    Services are free of charge.


    Call: 603-882-2941

  • Visiting Nurse Association of Manchester & Southern NH

    Adult bereavement groups meet weekly for 8 weeks and are held several times throughout the year.  

    Registration is required.


    Call: 603-622-3781

  • New Hampshire Catholic Charities

    Offering grief counseling to New Hampshire residents. Counseling is provided by clinical social workers and mental health counselors licensed by the Board of Mental Health Practice of the State of New Hampshire. Most insurances accepted. Sliding scale fees available.  


    Call: 603-669-3030

  • Blue Christmas Service

    Wednesday, December 10th

    6:30 PM – Sanctuary

    Community Chapel

    5 St. Laurent Street

    Nashua, NH 03064

    office@community-chapel.org

Grief Support For Men

  • The Men's Group

    The men's group is a drop in bereavement support group for men that meets on the fourth Friday of every month from 9-11 am at:


    Brookside Congregational Church

    2013 Elm Street (downstairs)

    Manchester, NH


Grief Support For Women

  • The Women's Group

    The Women’s Group is a drop in bereavement group that meets bi-monthly on the first and third Friday of each month, 9:30-11 am at:

     

    Elliot at River’s Edge

    185 Queen City Avenue

    Manchester, NH


    Call: 603-663-4005

Grief Support For Children & Teens

  • Stepping Stones through Grief

    A bereavement group for children and adolescents ages 5-18. Groups meet weekly for 8 weeks in the spring and fall.

    Call: (603) 622-3781Adult bereavement groups meet weekly for 8 weeks and are held several times throughout the year.  

    Registration is required.


    Call: 603-622-3781

  • Good Grief

    Kids (Manchester) is a support group for kids 4-13 years old.

    Teens (Manchester) is a support group for teens 14-18 years old.  

    Registration is required. 


    Call: 603-668-1207 or email goodgrief@friendsofaine.com

Grief Support After The
Loss Of A Child 

  • Compassionate Friends

    A grief group for parents who have lost a child.  


    Meets at:

    Manning House At Brookside Congregational Church

    2013 Elm Street

    Manchester NH 03104-2530


    Call: 603-472-8805

  • Perinatal Bereavement Services

    Located at Saint Joseph Hospital 

    603-882-3000

    x66409

    More Information


Grief Support For Survivors After Loss To Addiction

  • Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing- GRASP

    GRASP was created to offer understanding, compassion, and support for those who have lost someone they love through addiction and overdose.

Grief Support For Survivors After Suicide Loss

  • New Hampshire Suicide Awareness Support Groups

    Support groups located in Concord, Exeter, Hampstead, Keene, Lebanon, and Manchester, NH.

  • National Alliance on Mental Illness, NAMI

    info@naminh.org

    Call: 800-242-6264 or 603-225-5359

Online Grief Resources

Center For Loss & Transition 
Led by grief counselor, educator, and author Dr. Alan Wolfelt, The Center For Loss & Transition is an organization dedicated to helping people who are grieving and those who care for them. 

The Dougy Center provides support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults, and their families grieving a death can share their experiences.  

GriefNet.org is an online resource providing links to general bereavement resources for adults and children. GriefNet.org provides email support groups as well as well as links to various resources on hospice, homicide, suicide, traumatic loss, and Veteran & combat losses as well as resources for widows. In addition they provide links to various books on a variety of grief topics from abortion related grief, caregiving, cancer, spiritual resources, and legal issues. 

www.grievingstudents.org provides educational resources for school personnel on how to address and respond to a death involving a student, teacher or staff member as well as information on supporting seriously ill students with potentially life-limiting conditions helping classmates to understand and cope. grievingstudents.org also provides resources for school personnel to to help talk to children about shootings and other attacks as well as grieving death by suicide. 

Sources:
  1. Freud, Sigmund. On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement Papers on Metaphyschology and Other Works.
  2. Worden, James, Grief Counseling & Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner, 4th Edition, 2009.
  3. Fleming, Stephen. The Changing Face of Grief: From 'Going On to 'On-Going''
  4. Joseph, Stephen. What Doesn't Kill Us: the New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth
  5. American Cancer Society, "Coping with the Loss of a Loved One", 2012