Bereavement & Grief Counselling
When someone dies or you experience a loss you may feel a number of things including shock, pain, loss, anger, guilt, depression, longing, emptiness and even isolation as often people don’t know what to say and how to respond to your loss and so they avoid you.
If a person has died then often once the funeral is over many of the people who did come forwards with condolences will quite naturally get back to their normal lives yet for you the pain continues.
Or if your loss might be something else, a limb, a role, something else of great importance in your life you will also have to go through the same grief process and adjustment and as your Counsellor we can help you through the process but also we will understand that it will take time for you to come to terms with and we will always be happen to listen and give you ways to work through your grief and give you comfort. We may also look at areas that need adjustment, acceptance and resolution in order to move forwards.
How we can help
Therapeutic Counselling will help you to get to the root of why you feel what you feel, what may trigger difficult or painful feelings and help you release them.
Using expertise, tools, experience and insight as professional qualified online Counsellors we help those looking for Anger Management in London & Bristol, drawn from over 10 years of success with clients we know the right questions to ask you, really listen and learn all about you and your life and then we use special tools and techniques best tailored to your situation and personality to help you draw out the answers and understand what has happened to you and why you feel and behave the way you do now.
Then we identify what is getting in the way of your happiness and help you to safely release those painful feelings and get rid of those limiting beliefs which are colouring your perception of yourself, others and the world around so that you can move forwards, feeling happy, calm, in control and have the life you really want.
How we will deliver these results for you
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Weekly 50-minutes high-quality online video calls with you (working towards your desired outcomes).
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Sessions are structured and include detailed history taking.
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Using an integrative approach with interactive, creative, talking therapies We are able to draw on a range of techniques and approaches tailored to suit your personality and needs.
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The option of homework to continue progressing in between sessions.
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Techniques and creative tools to both recognise and release painful feelings Identifying and releasing emotional wounds frozen in time currently in your subconscious mind.
Various types of journaling,
Drawing tools and writing tools
Your Timeline
Emotional Inventories
Questionnaires
Physical techniques and tools
Anchoring new beliefs and overcoming habits (NLP) and other exercises.
And many more
All explained clearly and sent direct to you via email.
You will be encouraged to take ownership in the process so in time when you feel ready to go it on your own again you will no longer need the Therapist or any other Counsellor again.
Clients have fed back that online sessions were surprisingly just as personal a feeling as face to face, with no travel costs or time is taken up and can fit around your busy lifestyle or time zone with more appointment flexibility at short notice. The therapy goes at your pace and the number of sessions will vary according to your needs but as soon as you feel you have achieved what we agreed then formal sessions will come to an end and maintenance sessions are available on an ad hoc basis if clients wish whilst they are starting their new lives.
A dread I have is that clients might think I would keep them attending longer than they need but I take pride in saying I have never done this my whole career and often I am the first to say – ‘Do you know I feel you are ready to do this on your own now. I think you are ready." Honesty, integrity and trust are my top three personal values. - Sarah Cunliffe
Online Grief & Bereavement Counselling
By choosing a fully qualified BACP* Registered Member and National Counselling Society Accredited Counsellor recognised by the NHS you get the following as standard:
30 Counsellor hours of mandatory continuing professional development each year.
The Latest informed approaches in Counselling/NLP
Your Counsellor reports in to and is monitored by a Supervisor to ensure the Counsellor is fit to practice and in adherence with the Code of Ethics of the Training body of your Counsellor.
Compliance with the Data Protection Act 1974 and GDPR. Password protected online meetings and secure data storage.
Full Professional Indemnity and Public Liability Insurance
A clear understanding of the professional boundaries and sanctity of the Therapeutic Relationship only exists within the counselling session and safeguards the client.
*(British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists)
Book Your Initial Consultation
If you would like to book an initial consultation to discuss your situation, what you want to achieve and learn about how Emotional Therapeutic Counselling can specifically help. We look forward to seeing how we might help you.
Case Study – Henry (Name Changed)
Henry a well dressed, neat and tidy man and father to two daughters came to me many years ago when tragically one of his daughters died from Leukaemia. The circumstances and the pain with which she died in hospital had left him with great unresolved anger and he had not been able to recover from his grief.
As we delivered into the intervening years it became clear he had simply stopped caring about anything and had withdrawn from socialising or even spending much time with his other daughter.
He just felt like he was functioning but no longer alive inside. His loss and the trauma of it had left him emotionally traumatised, heart broken and emotionally closed up and his daughter and wife felt very resentful that he no longer paid any attention to them at all.
He had felt so low he had considered giving up on his life but slowly and surely I encouraged him to open up to me and express his feelings. Losing his child has left him feeling powerless and useless as he was unable to protect her and save her. He felt as her father he should have been able to protect her and he felt on some level that he had failed and this left him feeling emasculated as if he had failed.
On having the space and privacy to just express all his feelings and Henry used some of my suggested tools and techniques to release his pain and anger and in time he realised that he still could make a difference in his life by supporting and spending time with his other daughter who had felt grief stricken by her sister’s loss and then abandoned emotionally by her father.
In time I heard from Henry that he had returned to a shared special holiday place that he had shared with his wife and children years before and he held a small private remembrance for her there. His daughter expressed afterwards that he had become quite a changed man since he finished counselling and they had got Dad back.