Bereavement and Loss

At various times in our lives we will be faced with deciding how best to support family, friends, colleagues - and sometimes strangers -...

How we deal with loss is fundamental to our mental and emotional well-being . Hopefully, we will have learnt that our connections to...

Most families have secrets of some sort. Unwelcome truths are withheld, lies might be told and the burden of information that must not...

We all know that we are born, that we live - and then we die. Mostly, we manage to deal with the fact that we are mortal and get on with...

I frequently come across examples of how unprocessed feelings associated with a distressing event or circumstances are passed down...

Many of us are prompted to come to therapy for one of two reasons: when something in our lives goes seriously wrong; or feelings such as...

When someone close to us dies, two things have to happen : we need to attend to the - often unfamiliar - feelings that we are faced with;...

When we are going through a difficult time in our lives we often turn to those closest to us for comfort and advice. Talking to friends...

I'm a bit of a Grinch when it comes to positive thinking . When we are sad I don't think it is helpful to feel like we always have to...

Is there a right way to grieve? I think the simple answer to this question is ‘no’. People grieve for the loss of their loved ones in...

"Nothing that grieves us can be called little : by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown...