Specialist Bereavement
Counselling
On average, we spend 90,000 hours of our lives with our co-workers. For many of us, this is more than we spend with our friends or family.
This means that our co-workers can have a significant impact on our happiness and well-being. This is why establishing a supportive, compassionate workplace culture can have a huge impact on your employees, particularly if they are facing turbulent times or periods of bereavement.
At Workplace Bereavement, we work to raise awareness about the difficulty of losing someone close to you. We know that bereavement will inevitably affect an individual’s ability to work. But, with the right counselling and support in place, the grieving period and the return to work can both be made far more manageable.
As a specialist workplace bereavement consultancy, Workplace Bereavement offers a comprehensive bereavement support service, including specialist bereavement counselling and training.
What is bereavement counselling?
Grief does not end when bereavement leave does. So, as employers, we need to have the right tools in place to support our staff. However, studies highlight that 35% of employees felt they did not receive bereavement guidance from their employers.
As a result, an average bereaved employee will have 30 days off beyond the initial bereavement leave. By managing the return to work and implementing the right support systems, you can ensure your business is a safe, compassionate and happy place to work.
Bereavement counselling is a type of therapy, which is tailored to help individuals manage their grief, after the loss of a loved one. It involves individual sessions with a specialist bereavement counsellor, who will help them to navigate the challenging emotions that they are experiencing.
At Workplace Bereavement, we have a dedicated team of experienced bereavement counsellors. If you, a colleague or a member of your team requires individual counselling, we can provide professional grief counselling.
Why Workplace Bereavement?
Workplace Bereavement are workplace bereavement training and support specialists. Our team are highly skilled, qualified and experienced, trusted by companies across the UK and EU to improve their organisation’s employee support, and raise well-being across the workforce. We pride ourselves on our bespoke approach to staff bereavement support. To ensure all our clients (and their employees) receive the best-fit support for them, we offer tailored, flexible grief counselling services.
In addition to our workplace counselling, Workplace Bereavement is also a CPD accredited training provider. We offer specialist workplace bereavement training packages, and our accreditations include Bereavement Advocate Training; Bereavement Advocate Training for Teachers; and Bereavement Support for Children and Young People with SEND.
We also have a Members Area, which contains fantastic resources to help your team learn more about bereavement, and the best ways to support their colleagues. This area contains a comprehensive bank of resources and information, with course videos, podcasts, webinars and many more.
How we deliver our counselling
When you work with Workplace Bereavement, you will receive a dedicated bereavement counsellor. They will be on hand to help offer support and advice, whenever you need.
You can decide how you would prefer for your counselling sessions to take place.
We can conduct these sessions through video calls, over the phone, or face-to-face. Also, you can decide to have your counselling take place individually (with just you and one of our specialists), or as part of a group session.
If you have any questions about our staff bereavement support services, please visit our contact page, or speak to us over the phone on
