People from all walks of life, and all ages can benefit from grief counselling. Aucklanders can benefit from Suzi's specialist experience in this area. What is grief?
Explaining grief counsellingGrief counselling with me is a process where the client can have support from a professional through their own individual grief journey. It is essential to talk about what you are going through - if you don't, you can get stuck in the process and feel like you're going crazy.You may feel like you're being a burden on your family and friends - that may or may not be the case - however a professional therapist will be able to assist you with tools that will help you move through and find a way to live with what you have lost. Seeing me can also assist you in normalising what you are going through as most symptoms are in the normal spectrum. Please be careful of using drugs and alcohol to manage your grief as this will only delay your processing and inhibit your ability to cope. Alcohol and many drugs are depressants and could make your grief worse. Suzi's experience with grief counsellingI completed specialist grief training, along with my Diploma in Counselling and Family Therapy. I am experienced working with different types of grief and am familiar with the barriers that can prevent people from moving into a healthy place after a loss has occurred.I welcome clients who are seeking help understanding their grief journey. Seven well known stages of grief(according to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)*
Further informationAccording to the research carried out by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (and supported by my experience with clients), in order to come through the grief process, each stage must be attended to, even it's a brief "visit" to some stages and a longer "visit" to others. There are often more than what's listed above - bargaining and guilt are also common grief reactions. It's not a clean or linear process where each stage happens one after the other; it's normal to go in and out of one or more stages to do some more grief work. With regards to the seventh stage mentioned above, Recovery doesn't mean that you "get over'"what's happened. You learn to live with what's happened so that it's more like having a scar - it can remind you of what you've experienced, but it is no longer an open wound. |