Grief Counseling Center

Loss Naturally Causes Feelings of Grief

The experience of grief is not a sign of weakness. On the contrary, it is a healthy and appropriate response to loss. Allowing grief to be present with you for a while enables you to gradually free yourself from its hold on your life. Recognizing the appropriateness and value of grief is the initial step in accepting the reality of a loss.

Although every experience of grief is inherently unique, there tend to be more commonalities than differences in the grief process. Educating yourself and talking with a bereavement professional or with a grief counselor may help to normalize your experiences, determine where you are in your own process, and anticipate what is to come.

Hospice Bereavement Care
The Bereavement component of Hospice care includes follow-up support for a year following the death of a loved one. Bereavement care is designed to help bereaved individuals work through grief by providing a trained and compassionate person who can listen to your concerns and who can provide education about the grief process. These services include telephone contact, routine bereavement mailings, and referrals to the Grief Counseling Center.

Grief Counseling Center
The Grief Counseling Center offers individual and family grief counseling services to anyone in the community grieving a death-related loss, including hospice families. Services offered also include ongoing support groups and time-limited counseling groups for various losses, including death of a parent, death of a spouse, and death of a loved one by suicide. Group support is available for caregivers, as well. Additionally, workshops are offered during the holiday season to help cope with the holidays after the death of a loved one. Specially-designed grief-related educational workshops are available through the Grief Counseling Center, too.

Grief Counseling Center staff are master's-prepared, licensed professionals in the fields of Counseling and Social Work. Along with their master's-level interns, they are trained to meet the needs of grieving adults and children through a variety of therapeutic interventions. The Grief Counseling Center is also staffed with professionals who utilize art therapy, play therapy, sand tray therapy, and other creative interventions. (Click here to learn more about Complementary Therapies.)

Click here for more information about Camp Carousel, a bereavement camp for children and adults who are mourning the death of a loved one.