Counselling & Breavement Support

The Hospice provides a bereavement counselling service, to enable families and carers, both adults and children, face the inevitable and help them through the grieving process.

Our Bereavement Support Service:
Provides an opportunity to talk confidentially on a one-to-one basis with the Hospice Social Worker either in your own home or in the Hospice Unit. This will enable you to explore and work through emotions and problems that you may find difficult following your bereavement.

Adult Bereavement Support Group
The group meets twice monthly and includes a five-session course over a period of 10 weeks. New group sessions commence every third month and bereaved relatives will receive an invitation to these meetings approximately 8-12 weeks after their bereavement.
No-one is under any obligation to attend. The meetings provide an opportunity to explore feelings and share experiences with others whose relative has also died under the care of the Hospice.

Children and Teenagers’ Bereavement
Support is available for children and teenagers in the form of one-to-one counselling, and bereavement groups.
• New Horizons Down Memory Lane packs are available for use with children from 5 to 9 years. This encourages children to use activities, read stories and write poems. Through their drawings and photo collections they create and collect a scrapbook full of memories of the person they have lost.
• New Horizons bereavement support group programme caters for children from 10-13 years. This programme uses art, games, craftwork, drama puppets, stories and songs to enable children to share in a non-threatening manner, their feelings, fears, worries and hopes.
• Teenage bereavement support groups are also available.
Application forms are available on request from Hospice Social Worker.

Aim Of The Hospice’s Bereavement Services
• To reduce feelings of isolation for relatives, families and carers.
• To provide the bereaved with an opportunity to explore feelings and share experiences with others who have lost someone in Hospice thus enabling them to be supportive of each other.
• To provide support on an ongoing basis when requested by the bereaved person.
• To provide information and encouragement to those dealing with a bereavement by helping them to adjust to new circumstances.

For further information download PDF Leaflet “Your Hospice, Bereavement Counselling Services”