Bereavement counselling...
...Grief Counselling
- Have you lost someone? Are you finding it increasingly difficult to cope?When someone dies we are left with an emptiness and void that is hard to explain to ourselves never mind others.
- Grief counselling and grief psychotherapy at our Dublin 2 office takes the form of placing things in perspective and how you experience your life now and how that in turn is different from before.
We lose a part of ourselves when a loved one dies, understanding the changes, that are inevitable, can go some way to softening the pain that we are going through, although many going through this would argue that they will never see themselves smiling again or being able to have direction or enjoy their life once more.
Grief and grieving is a process. It takes time to come to terms with, understanding that your loved one is gone, how that in turn affects you and how you go about rebuilding your life. Everyone experiences life differently and everyone experiences death differently so there is no standard way of getting over the death of someone who has been in your life.
- Existential counselling is also employed at our Dublin 2 practice to clarify what death and dying means for those who remain and for those who come for therapy.
- Existential counselling looks at our journey and where we are on that journey and it also explores where we thought we might rather be in the context of the life we have known.
- While we can accept that grief is a process and that it can take time, sometimes a long time, there are situations when perhaps we need help to get through that pain. Sometimes we can get stuck at a place where we can't go forward and all we feel is the heaviness of our loss.
- This can happen to anyone and does happen more frequently then many may believe.
Worden a grief specialist cites the stages we need to overcome in order to get over or perhaps get on with our loss, these are ...
- accept the reality of our loss
- experience and bear the pain or grief
- adjust to a world in which the dead person is missing
- reinvest emotional energy
Although these stages seem obvious and understandable enough, going through each one can be horrendous, accepting that someone you may have loved for years is gone, it is terribly hard and what's perhaps harder is that people don't want to accept that someone is gone.
Going through this kind of pain is not easy but with support and understanding it can be done.
- Adjusting to a world without your friend, lover, confidante, pet, can be devastating, there can be a real feeling of guilt around getting on with things.
- Turning our attention to other things, other people, can seem like the last thing we would ever want or choose to do, but it is possible.
- So perhaps you need some help with identifying where you are, what stage your are at or simply someone to talk with and listen to you go through the stages and understand how hard it is for you.
Loss ...
Loss of any kind can seem like this, loss of a relationship, loss of a job, loss of mobility, of our health...
Hidden Losses ...
Have you experienced a loss privately that you cannot talk about, if so it might be good to talk to a therapist and let yourself grieve.
Perhaps you are stuck at a stage but your loss is described differently, if that's the case and you feel talking to someone would help call Edenville on 086 367 9648 to make an appointment.
20 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2, Dublin City
Adjacent to Dail Eireann on Kildare Street
Dublin Counselling and Psychotherapy D2
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