Bereavement Support

To explain when you might find counselling beneficial through:

• Stories
• Theory around bereavement
• Strategies and tools to help you
• To have a better understanding of the grieving process
• Resources to help you
• When you might need counselling

Therapeutic Bereavement Groups offer the opportunity to meet with other bereaved people who may be experiencing similar losses and issues

• Whilst everyone’s experience is different and their worries and concerns are unique some experiences to grief may be similar. Listening in a confidential setting to how other people have experienced their grief may therefore be helpful
• It is a place to meet with other bereaved people who have experienced the loss of a significant relative, to talk in a safe environment and explore feelings of loneliness, isolation, emptiness, anger and guilt and find ways to manage them

Bereavement counselling takes place in a relationship built upon trust, respect and confidentiality, to facilitate the processes of normal and complex grief.

It is a way of working that enables people to explore their concerns in a safe, supportive and non-judgmental atmosphere and to find the best outcomes for them.

• See things differently
• Explore feelings in a safe environment
• Find ways to manage feelings of loneliness and isolation
• Improve communication with family, friends and health professionals
• Feel supported
• Find a level of acceptance and increased understanding of their deepest concerns