A Person Centred Approach to Grief and Loss

Author: Liz Jeffrey
Maggie is a 35 year old woman who came for counselling six months after the break up of her nine year marriage to Michael, the father of her two children, Josh aged 6 and Joseph aged 12 months. Currently both children are in Maggie’s sole care. Maggie has been referred to counselling by her General Practitioner whom she has been seeing for a number of minor physical ailments and early signs of depression.
For ease of writing the Professional Counsellor is abbreviated to “C”.

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A loss like no other

A loss like no other

June 2012 | Cover Stories

Although loss is a universal experience, every person’s grief process is unique, meaning practitioners are wise to leave behind one-size-fits-all approaches to grief work

Lynne Shallcross

Imagine this scenario: You are a counselor, and you have two clients. They are the same age and same gender, and both experienced the death of a partner at roughly the same period in life. So, you can reasonably expect that both will have similar reactions to that parallel loss and both will benefit from similar counseling techniques to deal with the residual grief, right? Not likely.

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