Santou Carter

Santou is the founder of Grief Support Services Global and has 25 years of combined experience as a registered Psychotherapist specializing in Trauma and Grief, Certified Grief Educator, ordained Hospital/Hospice Chaplain and Spiritual Retreat Leader.

Santou is an international speaker offering hope of re-engagement with life across all stages of life’s losses, and guides people through trauma and grief to feel alive again.

Santou is a published writer on the topics of spirituality, non-death loss, end-of-life care and after-death grief.

As a trauma, loss and grief expert, Santou has worked in various sectors to support hundreds of families, and individuals, as well as offering mental wellbeing training to employees for staff retention and safety. She was nominated in 2021 for an NHS Hero award for numerous staff suicide preventions in her hospital workplace.

As a 2nd generation Genocide survivor and child war refugee, her transformative journey from viewing all death (and certain losses) as tragic to recognising the spiritual connections and potential gains from loss has equipped her with invaluable insights. Santou uses her talent as an award-winning Classical singer, a literary artist using metaphors, and humour, among a variety of other creative approaches, to help people feel better and find their value and worth to re-connect with themselves and others again to reduce the feelings of loneliness and isolation.

Santou works online internationally as a consultant supervisor helping other therapists with the complexity of their grieving clients, as well as supporting clients herself in her private practice using her unique therapeutic-spiritual model to help grieving people through divorce, the dying process and after-death bereavement to find renewed meaning and purpose in their lives.