Bereavement Support

This service is led by our Head of Social, Psychological and Spiritual Care alongside our Coordinating Chaplain. 

The Hospice offers a free, professional counselling service.

Quite often it is easier to talk to someone outside your own circle of family and friends.  It helps not to have to go through things on your own but be able to share memories, good or bad, with someone who is qualified to listen.  Sometimes it is helpful to look at why experiences in the past make us behave the way we do today.

Spouses or partners may find a group support setting to be of help to them following bereavement.  Here you will meet people for support and friendship who are in the similar position to yourself.  The group provides you with the opportunity to explore your situation and acquire the skills to face the future.  Particular groups are organized in response to need.

If this is not for you, you may find 1-1 counselling to be more of benefit.  During this time you will have the opportunity to offload your feelings and help to make day to day living easier. 

Support for Children

Although we are not a specialist service for children, we will work with children and young people if we feel we can help them come to terms with their loss.  If not we will offer advice and refer them to other services that will be better suited to address the child’s needs. 

Spouses/Partners Group

Spouses or partners may find a group support setting to be of help to them following bereavement.  Here they will meet people for support and friendship who are in the similar position to themselves.  The group provides people with the opportunity to explore their situation and acquire the skills to face the future.  Particular groups are organized in response to need.

Alternatively 1-1 counselling may be of more benefit.  During this time the patient's family will have the opportunity to offload their feelings which may help to make day to day living easier.  It is sometimes more comfortable to talk to someone outside their own circle of family and friends.  Often it helps the family not to have to go through things on their own but to be able to share memories, good or bad, with someone who is able to listen without being emotionally involved.