Bereavement

Bereavement counselling in Bermondsey

Grief tends to arrive differently than people expect. Sometimes it comes as devastation, immediate, total, impossible to move around. Sometimes it comes weeks or months later, when the practical demands have subsided and the real weight of what has happened becomes unavoidable. Sometimes it does not come at all, at first, and then surfaces years on, triggered by something that seems unrelated and yet clearly is not.

Bereavement counselling at the Bermondsey practice offers a space for all of these. The work does not rush mourning or impose a timetable on it. It accompanies.

What bereavement counselling in SE1 involves

Sessions are individual, private and conducted in complete confidence. The pace is set by what you bring, not by any framework about how long grief should take or what form it should assume. Dr Jacquet brings 25 years of clinical experience to this work alongside a Jungian understanding of loss. One that takes seriously both its pain and its capacity, over time, to become meaningful.

Some bereavement is straightforward in its origins but devastating in its effects. Other grief is complicated, by ambivalence toward the person lost, by a death that was sudden or traumatic, by losses that have compounded across years, or by a family or professional context in which mourning is not permitted to be visible. All of these are as fully valid a reason to seek support as any other.

Loss beyond bereavement

The Bermondsey practice also supports people through other forms of significant loss: the end of a long relationship, the loss of a professional identity, the grief that accompanies a major life transition that cannot be reversed. Loss does not need to be defined by death to be real, and it does not need to be socially acknowledged to require support.

Beginning

An initial consultation at the Bermondsey practice is the appropriate first step, a quiet, unhurried conversation at your pace.

Grief work close to home

Grief makes journeys long. The Bermondsey practice offers senior bereavement counselling in a quiet residential street in SE16, serving Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Borough, Peckham and the wider South East London neighbourhoods. People come after recent losses and after old ones, and the practice holds both with the same unhurried attention.

Dr Philippe Jacquet is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, a Jungian analyst and an HCPC registered art psychotherapist, with twenty-five years of clinical practice. His Doctorate of Professional Practice at the University of Essex examined male eating disorders from the perspective of analytical psychology. Registration can be checked on either public register.

How the work is delivered from here

All international sessions are by secure video, in English or French. Online therapy is not a reduced version of consulting room work: it is the format that lets weekly work survive living abroad, travelling, or relocating. Sessions run in United Kingdom hours, which suits most regions, and if your time zone makes none of it workable, say so when you enquire rather than assuming it rules you out.

For clinicians and treatment services

Dr Jacquet supervises clinical teams in private residential addiction treatment and in a private psychiatric hospital. For treatment centres, psychiatric units and group practices looking for external clinical supervision, including in places where no supervisor of this seniority is available locally, team supervision is also delivered by video. For individual practitioners, see clinical supervision.