Grief & Bereavement Counselling in Hereford

How Grief Can Feel

Grief rarely follows a neat order. You might feel sad, angry, guilty, relieved, numb, or all of these in the same day. It can affect your sleep, your appetite and your concentration, and it can arrive suddenly long after you thought the worst had passed.

Loss isn't only about a death. People also grieve the end of a relationship, a miscarriage, a diagnosis, a pet, or a future they had expected. Whatever you have lost, the feelings that come with it deserve attention.

How Counselling Can Help

Friends and family often want to help, but it can be hard to say everything to people who are grieving too, or who want you to feel better soon. Counselling gives you a separate space where you don't have to protect anyone, and where there is no timetable for how you should be feeling.

As your counsellor, I won't try to move you on from your loss. We can talk about the person you have lost, what the relationship was like, and what is hardest now. Over time, many people find the grief becomes something they can carry alongside the rest of their life, rather than something that takes over.

How Therapy Can Help

• Talk openly about the person or thing you have lost
• Make sense of feelings such as guilt, anger or relief
• Cope with anniversaries, reminders and difficult days
• Work through a loss that was sudden or complicated
• Look after yourself while you adjust
• Find a way to keep a connection to what you have lost

There's No Right Way to Grieve

It doesn't matter whether your loss was recent or many years ago. An initial call is a chance to tell me a little about what has happened and see whether talking with me feels right.