FAQs

The aim is to support you through your loss, allowing you the time to think things through, to talk about your experience, to be yourself as you are now and to voice how you really feel. The aim is not to move on and forget, but to move through your pain at your own pace, with support and without judgment.

Grief and loss can encompass many things, including: the death of someone who was important to you, being childless, relationship breakups, job loss, having to move to a new town or new country, life-changing injury, learning that you or a loved-one has a terminal illness, and many more life situations where we struggle to adapt to an unwanted new life.

I'm trained in person-centered counselling, focussing on you, your feelings, your thoughts and your needs – as you are and whatever your faith or beliefs.

I will listen to you with empathy, and with unconditional acceptance of who you are and how you feel. We all grieve in our own ways, and every loss is different.

As a framework, I use the ‘Skilled Helper’ model, which will help you to talk about your current situation, discover how you would like things to be instead, and to work out where to go from here.

This is integrated with the 'Tasks' of Mourning – including processing the pain of grief, adjusting to a world without the person/life you had before and finally, whenever you’re ready and however long it takes, feeling OK and able to continue in a different life. The Tasks are not straight, and it’s perfectly normal to go backwards, forwards and to revisit them as much as you need.

Even if the path is long and winding, we'll take things at your pace, step by step, with you in mind.

I charge €60 per session (one hour).

However, I do also have concessionary places, depending on income. Please don't hesitate to contact me for more information, in complete confidence.

I trained at Bristol City College in general counselling and did my Grief & Bereavement training at the Institute of Counselling in Glasgow (university level 6).

I am a member of the ACCPH. (Member ID #4238).

My interest in this type of counselling has come from my own difficulties with losing loved ones, as well as working through the grief of being involuntarily childless.