Grief counselling involves speaking about and expressing the reaction to the loss, but assists with learning to live with that bereavement over time.
A number of upsetting events, other than a death of someone close can cause grief. Events like marriage breakdown, loss of a job or learning about a terminal illness.
Counselling provides time to explore issues and other factors that occured that can help or hinder the process of adjusting to the loss.
Grief is one of the most painful experiences we go through. As we live our lives, we experience many small losses that ultimately help us to handle the large losses that cannot be avoided. When a loved one has been ill for a protracted lenght of time, we experience great sorrow when the bereavement eventually occurs. However when a sudden death occurs our world is thrown into turmoil and we feel confused and go into denial over the death. This is called a complicated grief reaction by counsellors and is brought about because we were not emotionally prepared for the loss.
