Everyone has different needs in terms of support through their grief, and this session will discuss how counselling might assist some individuals on their grief journey. We will examine counselling expectations, define “effective” counselling, discuss how bereaved individuals can identify the right type of counselling for themselves, and how they might get the best benefit from a counselling experience.

Topic discussed at this session to include:

• What happens in Counselling? What do counsellors do?
• What is effective counselling? Some common terms in counselling.
• Tell me about different approaches to counselling!
• How to choose the right counsellor or the most appropriate type of counselling?
• What can good counselling offer us? What can it not offer us?
• Why or when might we feel the need to see a Counsellor?
• Who has responsibility for what in counselling?
  

The Facilitators: JON & SUE STEBBINS are the bereaved parents of Matthew, 18. Over the  30 years since Matthew’s death they have utilised their lived experience and counselling experience & qualifications to develop and consolidate TCFV’s peer support program. (Dr. Jon Stebbins, Counselling Educational & Developmental Psychologist TPTC, BSc., BEd., GDEd Couns, MA (Couns), DE d MAPsS; Sue Stebbins, Registered Mothercraft Nurse, Cert. Appl. Soc. Science (Childcare), Cert. Appl. Aspects of Loss & Grief, Grad. Dip. Loss & Grief Couns.)

PLEASE NOTE: You need to be a current member of TCFV to attend TOPICS AROUND GRIEFworkshops.

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