Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow

It’s normal to experience stress and anxiety. To say that we grieve is an understatement. We experience grief. It is less an emotion so much as an inward experience. Sometimes we resist grief support and welcome the intense emotions and pain of loss. But it’s important to pay attention to its effect on our mental health and physical health and find our way back to healthy ways of living, with the loss.

The last thing you want to do is keep your stress to yourself, instead share it and get it out. Counselling can help you understand why you feel stressed and find strategies that can help you learn how to cope with it. The counselling environment provides a place for you to be accepted, to not be judged and to verbalise what you are feeling and going through. Counselling focuses on identifying the biggest stressors in your life and creating a treatment plan.