Bereavement Counselling
Counselling for Liverpool Ltd. provides short – long term bereavement counselling and psychotherapy on a private basis.
Bereavement could be described as a deep sense of loss, it creates a range of emotions that can change quickly from moment to moment.
Most people will experience bereavement at some stage in their life, yet at the same time, no one will ever have the same experience of grief.
Bereavement can be a shattering, and isolating experience. Sometimes bereavements are more traumatic than the loss alone, which adds another dimension. Some bereavements can benefit from other forms of therapy rather than talking therapies alone.
Sometimes there are no words, or little to say
Counselling and psychotherapy can help by creating a space to explore the impact of grief, and your experience of it. Therapy can also help heal the trauma of bereavement, and break your isolation by getting close to your experience of grief.
There are no set rules or stages of grief, it is a non-linear process with no time frame. It can be years after the loss when you feel it hits, and the sense of loss can be engulfing. For many, grief comes when you have room to deal with it, you may be feeling great when it comes.
The emotions you experience can be vast and hard, common emotions accompanying grief are:
anxiety, anger, guilt, relief, deep sadness, pain, regret, and shame.
There are other ways to further process grief, traumatic grief pet bereavement, and all the hard feelings, that aren't just talking about it.
I'm trained in a number of other approaches which can be very helpful towards your pain.
From 2005-to 2007, I worked for a specialist bereavement & palliative care service within Trafford/Manchester NHS & Macmillan. Here I supported people through some of the hardest parts of their lives.
A note on pet bereavement:
There are a number of ways of helping you process the loss of your pet that doesn't involve so much talking.
You can book in, and give this some attention to be processed, in a warm, accepting environment, without platitudes such as:
“you should be over it by now…” or “time's a healer…”
