Grief has no timetable. Neither does this.
By Lucy Wren, MNCPS (Acc.), accredited counsellor in Leith, Edinburgh.
Counselling for loss and bereavement in Leith, Edinburgh and online. A gentle space to carry what you are carrying, at your own pace.
Is this for you?
People come to bereavement counselling at very different points: weeks after a death, or years later when grief resurfaces. It may help if:
- A bereavement feels too big, or too complicated, to process alone
- You are coping outwardly but something inside has not moved
- The people around you have gone back to normal and you have not
- Your feelings are tangled, perhaps grief mixed with relief, anger or guilt, and hard to admit elsewhere
- You are grieving a loss other than a death: a relationship, your health, a job, a future you had planned
All of these are real losses, and all of them belong here.
How counselling can help
Grief does not need fixing, and I will not try to fix yours. What counselling offers is a regular, unhurried hour where your loss can take up as much room as it needs. Saying things aloud, especially the complicated things, can help grief move rather than stay stuck. There is no expected sequence of stages and no point at which you are supposed to be over it. We go at the pace of your grief, not a textbook’s.
What happens in a session
Some sessions are full of memories and stories; some are quiet; some are angrier than you expected. All of that is welcome. I listen, I stay alongside you, and when it helps, I offer gentle ways of understanding what grief does to a person, which many people find steadying in itself.
Sessions and fees
- 60-minute sessions
- In person at Health by Science, Leith: £60 per hour
- Online by video call: £50 per hour
- Free 15-minute introductory chat first
Full details on the Fees page.
Common questions
Is it too soon, or too late, for bereavement counselling? Neither really exists. Some people come immediately, others decades later. The right time is when you feel you want support.
What if I cry through the whole session? Then that is what the session was for. There is no version of grieving that is wrong in this room.
My loss was not a death. Does it still count? Yes. Endings of many kinds deserve to be grieved, and counselling can support that.
About the counsellor
Lucy Wren is an Accredited Registrant of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (MNCPS Acc.), with more than 20 years of experience in person-centred care. She works pluralistically, drawing on person-centred, psychodynamic, CBT and transactional analysis approaches, in person in Leith and online across the UK. You can read more about Lucy, or view her entry on the NCPS public register.
In person in Leith, or online across the UK
Address:
Counselling Edinburgh
99 Giles Street,
Leith,
Edinburgh,
EH6 6BZ
Contact Details:
Tel. 0131 210 0149
Email: lucy@healthbyscience.co.uk
Opening Hours.
Monday to Thursday: 8:00AM – 8:00PM