Grief Counselling - Let Your Client Talk About Their Loved One

Although there are many ways of counselling, comforting, and supporting a grieving person, many people don’t know what to do or say when someone they know has experienced a loss.

As therapists, we may need to help grieving clients eventually learn how to stop grief from continually burdening their lives.

In this video, you will see a demonstration and description of how rapport building during a grief counselling session can help to let your client talk about their loved one, with Mark Tyrrell of Uncommon Knowledge and an actor.

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[butterflybri]

I’m starting my internship in a few months and I’m terrified of grief counseling. I freeze up when ppl cry or talk about a deceased loved one. This helped me a lot!

[cskiles]

I’m at 21 months. My stages have been all over the place. I’ve always felt my purpose has been done. And ppl avoid me. My husband said no 1 else could have tolerated me during this time. Made me feel worse. In these days it was passing in a half a day or sometimes 3 days., then a good day or 2. Then a trigger and the drowning suffocating process starts all over again. Hold on it will pass and it does. But the walls are closing in. I’m hoping in the summer I can get better. No1 reads these comments but it still feels good that I kinda said it. I don’t say it to a person

[tishaguthrie]

Many thanks. This was very helpful without the complexity. For those in grief, often much isn't needed, just space to work through the emotions and someone willing to afford them that courageous place

[deenreyes]

My stages have been inconsistent. My mission has always felt complete to me. People shun me. Nobody else could have tolerated me during this period, according to my husband. It made me feel even worse. It was passing in a half-day or three days back then, then a good day or two. The drowning suffocating process is then restarted by a trigger. Hold on, it'll pass, and it will. However, the walls are closing in. I'm trying to improve during the summer. Nobody reads these comments, but it feels wonderful to have said something. I wouldn't say that to someone I had to see my therapist about.

[fergusola]

Lost my husband Feb 2021. This was very helpful to me in many ways. Thanks.

[terapiamatinal]

Awesome. I confess I used this protocol on myself, and it helped a lot. Thanks for that

[sobis]

Thank you Mark its so refreshing to see and hear practical demo

[lauriebaker]

I have listened to this many times now I understand my husband said to me you must let me go you have to.

[popeye]

Can you give me an example of how a person can emote. What do you mean by a person emoting? Do you mean they are putting a little bit of an act in order to receive more attention or a dramatic act? I'm learning psychology on my own through YouTube that's why I ask. Since COVID I've had many people suffering from depression and the crimes here in NYC has many people stressed out so I decided to educate myself in counseling to better communicate support and care. Today I have a young man who lost a love one.

[Kuutamo]

You can grieve someone who's still alive, such as a parent. And it's even worse than if they're dead

[Lennashome]

By all means be honest and speak up, help others to express themselves

[VickiBee]

I had to compartmentalize what was happening because I couldn't handle all the things that happened to him & remain sane. I couldn't handle that he was trapped in a fire AND his body was literally hacked to pieces while Tower 1 was collapsing on them. He was burned and hacked apart & I've never been able to handle the why? Why did the happen to anyone, much less a perweqln who was good and honest and decent & fa, whos3 worswrt crime was that he strayed across the path of 19 maniacs?

[brendadrumm]

I defy anyone on god's earth to talk or try to talk to me about getting over the death of my daughter and son a few yrs ago yr half apart no one can help me words are cheap that's me my life has gone over gone with the wind my cross to bear only relive for me when I take my last breath x

[geekcritique]

Why don't you just get Hannibal lector to narrate this people are grieving!?

[VickiBee]

What happens if your grief became complicated because you were essentially "watching" him be murdered?
What do you do with the raging anger, esp in light of the fact that one of the people who's GUILTY of helping murder him was FREED from Guantanamo based on a f'n political stunt? #MohammedouSalahi will be guilty forever #September11FamilyandFriends