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 a loved one, 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-centred counselling, focussing on you, your feelings, your thoughts and your needs.

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, with no loss being the same as any another.

As a framework, I use the ‘Skilled Helper’ model, which will help you to assess your current situation, discover how you would like things to be instead, and to work out how to get there.

This is integrated with the four Tasks of Mourning – accepting the reality of the loss, processing the pain of grief, adjusting to a world without your loved-one and finally finding a lasting connection with them, whilst also being able to continue onwards and flourish in a different life.

The Tasks are not straight, it’s perfectly normal to go backwards and forwards and even to revisit them.

There is no easy cure for grief. The path could be long and winding, but 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 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).

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.