Counselling for those who have been bereaved following illness
What is counselling?
Counselling provides an opportunity to talk about your thoughts and feelings with a professionally trained counsellor. Counselling sessions happen at the same time each week. From our experience this consistency and commitment provides the opportunity to explore and better understand your thoughts and feelings.
How can therapy help me?
People find that having a space and time to explore their own thoughts and feelings is a huge relief.
Often it is difficult to express some of what you may be feeling to the people closest to you.
The counselling relationship is a place where you don’t have to worry about anyone else. It can help you to come to terms with what is happening, to better understand yourself and others, and to find a degree of stability and peace when things feel overwhelming.
What can I expect from our sessions?
Everyone is different and the sessions will develop according to your own need and your situation. The impact of a life-threatening illness is far reaching and you may want to use your sessions to explore a variety of issues that are important to you.
Your therapist will not have a set agenda for the sessions and will encourage you to talk about whatever is most pressing for you.
Contribution to the cost of our work
Suggested Contribution
£65/session
If £65 is not possible we can offer subsidised sessions
We are a small charity and we ask all clients, if they are able, to contribute toward the cost of their therapy at a rate of £65 per session.
Accessible
We are wheelchair accessible. Please let us know if you have special requirements.
Professionally trained
Our counsellors are professionally trained and particularly experienced in working with issues of death, loss and bereavement. All of them adhere to The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Code of Ethics and Practice. We also offer supervised placements for a limited number of counsellors and psychotherapists in advanced stages of their training. All of our counsellors are overseen by our Clinical Lead
Confidential
Your counselling sessions are confidential. With your permission, we will notify your GP that you are coming to see us for counselling, and when you have finished. We may contact your GP or other healthcare professionals if we are concerned that there is a risk of you harming yourself, or others, and wherever possible we will discuss this with you beforehand.
What we offer
Individuals
Our individual counselling offers one-to-one weekly sessions, providing a space where you can talk and be listened to whilst exploring your experiences with life-threatening illness and bereavement. You can use counselling sessions to discuss whatever you wish. Themes people might explore are their fears and concerns about loss, relationships with family and friends and how they think and feel about their medical treatment.
Couples
When you or your partner are facing death, dying or bereavement, it can create all sorts of changes to the relationship. Coming for counselling together can help to make sense of these. We know that couples can draw enormous support from one another at difficult times, but it can be a huge challenge to know how to do this . Regular weekly therapy helps to understand what is happening, and to make changes that can help.
Groups
Therapy groups are guided by an experienced counsellor and are a space for people affected by life-threatening illness to come together to speak openly and honestly about the realities of their experiences. The group gives you the opportunity to build a mutually supportive community with other people who share similar experiences.
What clients have said
You have helped me find a path forward in my life, which felt totally impossible only a few months ago.
I understand it is not just the person diagnosed with cancer suffering it also has a tsunami affect on the family members too. The space allows me to express my darkest fears, which alleviates much of the weight, pain and my reluctance to look at death. I can’t imagine what I would do without the sessions.
I feel that I may have just got what is left of my life back. Many, many thanks. My counsellor was brilliant, really helped me work through stuff.
Start your self referral
Take a few minutes to fill out our initial therapy enquiry form and a member of our friendly team will give you a call back to discuss your options.