Bereavement

Bereavement counselling in Colchester

There is a widespread assumption that grief follows a predictable course. That it arrives, runs through its stages, and eventually subsides. For some people, something like that happens. For many others, grief is less orderly: it returns unexpectedly, changes shape, refuses to follow the timetable that life demands of it, or arrives only years later when the circumstances that required you to hold it together have finally passed.

Bereavement counselling at the Colchester practice offers a space in which grief can be met as it actually is, not as it is supposed to be.

What bereavement counselling involves

Sessions are individual, private and unhurried. The pace is set by what you bring. Dr Jacquet brings over 25 years of clinical experience to this work alongside a Jungian understanding of loss. One that takes seriously both the pain of bereavement and its potential, over time, to become a source of depth and meaning.

Not all grief is straightforward. Some bereavement is complicated by the nature of the relationship with the person lost, by a death that was sudden, traumatic or poorly handled by those around you, by loss layered on earlier loss, or by a social or professional context in which visible mourning is not available. This practice works with all of these, with the same quality of attention as the most uncomplicated bereavement.

Loss that is not bereavement

The Colchester practice also supports people through forms of loss that do not carry the formal name of bereavement: the end of a significant relationship, the loss of health or capacity, the collapse of a career or identity, the grief that accompanies a life transition that cannot be undone. These are as real as the loss of a person, and as deserving of proper support.

Grief support in Colchester

Bereavement does not respect schedules, and grief work is harder to sustain when each session requires a journey into London. The Colchester practice offers senior, unhurried grief counselling in town, in a quiet residential setting close to the centre. People come from Colchester itself and from across north Essex, sometimes after a recent loss, sometimes years later when a grief that was never given room begins to insist on attention.

Getting started

No referral is needed. An initial consultation in Colchester is the appropriate first step, a private, unhurried conversation at whatever pace you need.

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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.