It is worth noting that it may take a few sessions to build up the rapport and trust necessary for therapy to work.
Counseling for grief and loss is not about suppressing pain or forgetting what has happened, but about honoring the loss, understanding the emotions that come with it, and learning to live with the memories in a way that promotes healing and personal growth.
At Gentle Mind, we provide a compassionate space for individuals to navigate the emotional pain of losing a loved one or the experience of other significant losses.
The process allows you to work through your grief, loss and pain by providing a safe space to explore complicated emotions that often accompanies the grieving process. Support is offered in helping you recognise and navigate the different stages of grief, and helping our clients move through the stages at their own pace.
Healthy ways to manage grief can be explored. And when a person is ready, to help with rebuilding routines and finding meaning after a loss.
GRIEF is a normal process that can last a long time. Intensely personal, there is no right or wrong way to grief. We can grief over loss of loved ones, loss of a job, loss of a relationship, loss of expectations, good health or other kinds of losses.
As painful as the process of grief can be, with support of family and friends, many of us go through it without needing the help of a mental health professional.
However, some experience severe, prolonged and disabling grief symptoms, referred to as complicated grief. When the grief from loss is traumatic or becomes complicated, it leads one to watch with detachment a world that has come to a standstill.
It is an intense, long-lasting form of grief that interferes with a person’s ability to function in daily life.
intense yearning, longing or emotional pain
frequent preoccupying thoughts about the loss
Feelings of anger & bitterness at being abandoned
Self-reproach for feeling too much or too little sadness
feelings of guilt or self-blame
difficulty accepting the loss, loss feels unreal
emotional numbness or detachment
loss of purpose
impaired physical health
difficulties with social interactions
avoidance of reminders
occurrence of other issues, such as depression
You may have heard people talk about different stages of grief, or about the five stages of grief.
The more well known five stages of grief, was introduced by psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in 1969, it describes common emotional responses to loss.
In reality, however, we do not experience feelings of grief in a particular order. There are no set stages that everyone goes through. These stages are not always experienced in a linear order, and people may move back and forth between them. You may experience some of the things in the stages of different grief models, or all of them – or you may have quite different emotions.
While having stages as a map for their journey of grief is helpful for some, Grief is personal, and people experience it differently. There is no correct way to grief.
If your grief is overwhelming and interfering with your ability to function, it may be time to seek support
Grief counselling can benefit;
The duration of grief counselling can vary depending on individual needs and circumstances, and the nature of the loss, and how a person processes grief. There’s no fixed timeline.
Some people feel better after a few sessions, while others need longer-term support.
Regular sessions are typically scheduled, allowing for ongoing support and monitoring of progress.
It is worth noting that it may take a few sessions to build up the rapport and trust necessary for therapy to work.
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