Bereavement Counselling

 

About Our Bereavement Counselling in Leeds

 

Sessions are available both in-person and online.  If you find co-ordinating your schedules and obligations challenging or you do not live close by, online therapy offers convenience and flexibility from your own home(s).  Alternatively, I offer a comfortable environment within my home where you may feel you can leave your feelings and struggles for me to ‘hold’ until our next session.

Sessions can address the changes you have experienced since you identified your loss(es), your feelings and your reactions to your feelings.  Sometimes others have lost the same person or thing and have a different approach to their grief or remember events differently from yourself.  This can be frustrating, too.  Often, experiences need to be expressed more than once and I am here to listen to you.

Why Insight? The Process and the Sessions:

Please email, text or call to arrange an initial, free phone or zoom chat about your needs.  I will forward an assessment form to you as a guide to the sort of information we might discuss on the call. There is no obligation to book a session. We would identify what bereavement(s) you have experienced and the timeline of events associated with it/them. 

It can often be useful to use photographs in this work.  You could select some that you find particularly special to help open up memories and explore feelings.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • No one discloses everything in the first bereavement counselling session!  There wouldn’t be time!  We will work at your pace as our therapeutic relationship grows. Often, as sessions move on, clients identify issues they hadn’t, initially.

  • Clients vary quite widely in their presenting issues.  Bereavement is a very broad term, often associated with the death of a loved one.  However, bereavement covers the loss, expected loss or feared loss of anything and anyone. This might apply to something/someone you had or hoped to have.  Some clients may present bereaved with something not achieved, for example, a baby they’d hoped to have, a job they’d hoped to have or a relationship they’d hoped to have.

  • If you need to cancel, please provide at least 24 hours’ notice as I would then be able to offer the session to another client. See T&C’s here

  • If you find your obligations and responsibilities quite changeable, there is no need to have sessions at the same time and day, or even every week.  We can work around your life style and commitments.