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My Solution Wellbeing counselling Durham offers Bereavement Counselling face to face or online in Durham. Sessions start from £60 and we have evenings, daytime and weekend appointments.
My Solution Wellbeing Counselling Durham offers therapy and counselling for bereavement or loss. We have a dedicated team based in Durham and our counsellors are trained and qualified to deliver bereavement counselling in Durham.

Therapy we use for bereavement at My Solution Wellbeing Durham
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): Helps identify and change negative thought patterns or self-blame that can make grief harder to process.
- Interpersonal Therapy (IPT): Focuses on how the loss affects your relationships and helps you rebuild a support network.
- Complicated Grief Treatment (CGT): Combines standard psychotherapy with specific techniques for people experiencing prolonged, intense grief that disrupts daily life.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Encourages accepting painful emotions rather than avoiding them, helping you move toward personal values and goals.
- Creative Therapies: Uses art, writing, or play therapy to help individuals—especially children or those who feel numb—express difficult feelings.
Common approaches used at My Solution Wellbeing Counselling Durham
- Talk Therapy: Provides a safe, confidential space to share thoughts about the person who died.
- Journaling: Involves writing letters to the deceased or tracking daily emotions to release built-up stress.
- The Empty Chair Technique: A role-playing exercise where you imagine speaking to the lost loved one to address unfinished conversations.
- Creating Rituals: Establishing specific ways to honour or remember the deceased.
If you have experienced the death of someone who was very important to you, you might be finding it very difficult to adjust to the immense changes happening in your life right now. Grief can shake everything up – your beliefs, your personality, and even your sense of reality.
Bereavement is the time we spend adjusting to loss. There is no standard time limit and there is no right or wrong way to feel during the bereavement period – everyone must learn to cope in their own way.
Grief, although normal, can manifest in a huge range of unexpected ways. Some people get angry, some people withdraw further into themselves and some people become completely numb. Sometimes, grief can turn into something more serious – like depression.
Bereavement counselling with My Solution Wellbeing Counselling Durham may be able to provide support during these very difficult times. Talking about the loss often allows a person to adjust to their new life with all its changes – good and bad. Keeping things bottled up or denying the sadness could prolong the pain. Any loss has to be acknowledged for us to move forward. Bereavement counselling with My Solution Wellbeing tries to help clients find a place for their loss so they can carry on with life and eventually find acceptance.
Grief is the agony you feel inside when you realise that you have lost somebody. Grief is complex. It comes in a million different forms – some people cry for days, weeks, months. Some people get angry and lash out, other people withdraw from the world and grieve in their own private way.
Different emotions associated with bereavement include:
- Sorrow
- Longing (to see them again)
- Guilt
- Numbness
- Anger
- Hopelessness
- Loneliness
- Despair
Bereavement counselling with My Solution Wellbeing Counselling Durham is designed to help people cope more effectively with the death of a loved one.
Specifically, bereavement counselling can:
- Offer an understanding of the mourning process
- Explore areas that could potentially prevent you from moving on
- Help resolve areas of conflict still remaining
- Help you to adjust to a new sense of self
- Address possible issues of depression or suicidal thoughts
Bereavement counselling with My Solution Wellbeing Counselling Durham aims to get you to the point where you can function normally however long it takes. One day, you may be able to find happiness again. By creating a place to keep the person you lost, and finding ways to remember them (like anniversary celebrations, or leaving flowers at a memorial site), you should be able to preserve their memory and honour the impact they had on your life, without letting their absence obscure your own future.
Get in Touch
My Solution Wellbeing Durham has made Bereavement counselling simple to access with face to face appointments in Durham or at the comfort of your home online. Sessions start from £60 or if you block book 6 sessions you receive a £10 discount off each session. Sessions can be booked online with the counsellor of your choice. My Solution Wellbeing has over 100 therapists to choose from. Book online at the comfort of your home today.
Tel: 0800 098 2806
Email: office@mysolutionwellbeing.com
Areas We Also Cover
We cover the whole of County Durham and Durham
- Chester-le-Street
- Bishop Auckland
- Spennymoor
- Newton Aycliffe
- Seaham
- Peterlee
- Consett
- Stanley
- Durham City Centre
