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My Services

I offer a unique blend of therapeutic counselling and grief tending practices, supporting you wherever you are in your journey with loss and life transitions. My approach honours grief as a natural response to love and change, helping you develop tools to live alongside your grief with greater ease.

Grief goes beyond bereavement - it's what we feel with any significant loss or life transition. Relationship endings, job losses, health diagnoses, identity shifts, unfulfilled dreams, or collective losses that touch our communities. These experiences are often dismissed by a society that struggles to acknowledge pain not tied to death. The support I offer welcomes you and all of your grief, whatever it may be.

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Grief Therapy

Whether you're experiencing grief from the loss of a loved one, a relationship ending, health diagnosis, job loss, or major life transition, we'll explore how loss is impacting your daily life. Together we'll develop tools for emotional regulation, work through complicated feelings like guilt and anger, and find ways to move forward whilst honouring your experience.

 

This is a therapeutic approach to grief work, offering 1:1 support  in a gentle and compassionate space where all parts of your grief are welcome.

Individual Grief Tending

Moving beyond talk therapy to incorporate ritual, nature wisdom, and spiritual practices. We'll create meaningful ways to honour your losses, explore continuing bonds with those you've lost, and connect with the cyclical nature of life and healing. Think of this as tending a garden - we create the right conditions for natural healing to unfold through ceremony, meditation, and embodied practices.

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Grief Tending Circles

Come join me and a group of tender-hearted souls in circle. Together we will tend to our grief in community through ritual, reflection, sharing circle, guided breathwork and meditation practices to connect more deeply with our grief. 

 

I offer circles both in person and online so you can join me from wherever you are in the world. You were never meant to grieve alone, and now you don't have to. 

Breathwork

Gentle breathwork practices to support your nervous system when grief leaves you feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your body. These techniques help create space for difficult emotions whilst building resilience and grounding. Breathwork can be particularly helpful for managing grief waves, panic, and the physical symptoms that often accompany loss.

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My Journey with Grief

As well as holding space purely to focus on breathwork, I do often use breathwork techniques within my counselling sessions with clients, as and when appropriate.

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Whether this is teaching clients breathwork techniques they can use to support themselves outside of sessions, or taking the time to breathe together in our sessions to ground and soothe.

 

Breathwork has been recognised by many leading trauma experts as an effective tool to integrate into the healing of  trauma.

 

The mind-body connection is a powerful one, and whilst we can explore many issues from a  mind perspective during counselling, it is becoming increasingly recognised that our  bodies play a big part in that healing too.

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If you're interested in working with both the mind and body then this can be discussed during our initial session.

Want to take the next step on your journey?

Get in touch

©2023 by Hayley Ruth Counselling

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