Counselling and Peer Support Services
SIDS and Kids Hunter Region offers a unique combination of professional bereavement counselling and peer support.
Bereavement Counselling and Peer Support
Some parents who have experienced the death of a young child have been trained in bereavement support and are available for family members to talk to. In addition to this SIDS and Kids employ a Bereavement Counsellor who has specific experience in supporting and counselling bereaved persons.
Bereavement Counselling is the process of exploring your grief with a trained professional in a supportive and understanding environment.
Seeking counselling is not a reflection on you in some negative way, it is a reflection of what has happened to you.
Grief is a normal reaction to loss, and the depth and duration of the experience is different for everyone.
The experiences and reactions you are having are normal. Symptoms of grief are often the very things that we would otherwise consider abnormal.
Understanding your own experience can be helpful in adapting to your new life situation. Bereavement Counselling can be helpful in assisting you to work with your grief.
Counselling can be useful for individuals, couples and families in providing another source of support and understanding.
APPOINTMENTS
Call the centre to make an appointment with the Bereavement Counsellor. Appointments can be made outside of normal working hours and home visits can be arranged in special circumstances.
Alternatively, you can drop in to the centre between 9am—5pm to speak with a peer support worker.
To contact the SIDS and Kids Hunter Region Bereavement Counsellor please phone 02 49693171 or email.
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