Bereavement Counselling

 

About Our Bereavement Counselling in Leeds

 

Bereavement counselling is for anyone who has suffered or is suffering loss.  This is not necessarily a death.

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:

I have worked with Bradford Bereavement Service, Cruse and Sue Ryder to train in the various models of bereavement therapy.

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

  • I don’t believe there is a timetable for this because as a client, you are the only one who can decide when you received the news of your bereavement. 

    You may have dealing with an upcoming bereavement for some time, such as a terminal illness of a loved one.  You may have experienced a repeated bereavement, for example a relationship that seems to heal and break down repeatedly.  Seek counselling as soon as you feel you would benefit.

  • 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.

  • £50/hr for sessions that finish at or before 5 pm.  Sessions that start after 5pm are charged at £55/hr.

  • 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.

  • Our sessions take place in a safe, non-judgemental environment. All information will be kept confidential between me and you as the client with the following exceptions:

    • I reserve the right to break confidentiality if instructed to by a court of law.

    • I reserve the right to break confidentiality if I believe that you are going to cause physical harm to another individual.

    • I reserve the right to break confidentiality if I believe you are going to physically harm yourself.

    I will be discussing your case with my supervisor during my supervision session. This is required by the rules of my regulatory body (BACP) and is beneficial to both the client and therapist.

  • 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