Bereavement Support Page

Grief doesn't follow a schedule.

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Maybe you’ve lost someone recently. Maybe it happened years ago and you thought you were fine, until you weren’t. Maybe you’re not sure whether what you’re carrying even counts as grief. It does.

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Grief is one of the most disorienting experiences a person can go through. It changes the shape of ordinary days. It can make you feel close to someone one moment and utterly alone the next. It can arrive as sadness, as anger, as numbness, or as a strange flat absence where feeling used to be.

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And it rarely looks the way you expect it to.

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WHAT KIND OF LOSS BRINGS PEOPLE TO COUNSELLING?

People come to bereavement counselling for many different reasons. You don’t need to have lost someone to a death to be grieving.

Loss takes many forms:

• The death of a partner, parent, child, sibling, or friend

• A pregnancy loss, or the end of a hoped-for family

• The end of a relationship or marriage

• Estrangement from someone you love

• A diagnosis, for yourself or someone close to you, that changes everything

• The loss of a role, an identity, or a version of your life you thought you were building

• Grief that has been carried for a long time without ever having space to be heard

Whatever has brought you here, you don’t need to justify it. Loss is loss.

 

YOU MIGHT BE FEELING…

Overwhelmed. Like the grief comes in waves you can’t predict or control.

Numb. Like you’re going through the motions but nothing quite reaches you.

Guilty. For things said or unsaid, for feeling relieved, for not crying enough, or for crying too much.

Stuck. Like everyone else has moved on and you’re still standing in the same place.

Angry. In ways that feel disproportionate or directed at the wrong people.

Lonely. Even when surrounded by people who care about you.

None of these are wrong. All of them are welcome here.

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WHAT HAPPENS IN BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLING?

There’s no agenda and no timeline. You don’t need to arrive with the right words or the right level of distress. You just need to show up.

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In our sessions, you’ll have space to talk about the person you’ve lost, or the loss you’re carrying, in whatever way feels right. We won’t rush past the hard parts. We won’t try to reframe your grief into something more manageable before you’re ready.

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What we will do is work together, at your pace, to make sense of what you’re feeling. To find ways of living with the loss rather than around it. And to explore what it means to carry someone or something with you as life continues to move forward.

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Grief doesn’t end. But with support, it can change shape. It can become something you carry differently.

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WHY ONLINE BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLING?

All sessions take place via Zoom, which means you can access support from wherever you are in the UK, without the added difficulty of travel on days when everything already feels like a lot.

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Many people find that being in their own space actually makes it easier to talk. There’s no waiting room. No commute home to manage afterwards. Just a regular time set aside for you.

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And if life takes you somewhere different for a while, sessions can continue without interruption.

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