SERVICES FOR INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS
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Mourning is a natural and normal process.
Yet the intensity of your feelings (and sometimes the opposite—your lack of emotion or numbness) may bewilder or concern you. After the death of his wife from cancer, C. S. Lewis described, in evocative language, his mourning process as feelings of “suspense,” “moments of agony,” and an “invisible blanket” between himself and the rest of the world.
Significant loss often stirs us at our core—raising questions about who we are, what holds meaning and motivation for us, from whom we gather strength, and how we navigate in a world that feels less safe. Mourning often involves refinding ourselves and our footing, assuming new roles that we are unprepared for, and relearning the world, as we face our everyday and larger challenges without our loved one.
Further, if your significant relationship was a difficult and an ambivalent one, or the death was sudden, you may be coping with “unfinished business,” guilt, and other unresolved feelings.
The Center’s services of individual and group counseling/therapy support the mourner through the tasks of this often challenging transition. While the mourner may become isolated and feel estranged from others, the Center offers connection with, and comfort from, other mourners who share a meaningful loss.
Individual Grief Counseling/Therapy
Talking, one-on-one, in confidence, with a trained professional about the nature and the meaning of your loss of a crucial relationship (and secondary losses like change in status, role, and financial situation) can assist you in processing the personal turmoil of grief. Further, in facing your loss in the presence of a therapeutic “guide,” you can gradually cope more effectively with daily life and integrate your loss into your changed world.
Supportive Grief Group
Sharing the inescapable pain of loss with a group of peers who have also experienced a significant death of a loved one validates your profound and unpredictable emotions, the enormity of the loss, and the monumental challenge of adjusting to life without your loved one’s presence. Ultimately, grief “work” in group can enable you to expand your capacity to experience joy and vitality.
Groups meet weekly for 12 weeks.
Group Therapy for Adults with Early Parental Loss
While this is not a bereavement group per se, it is a group therapy for adults who (as children, adolescents, or young adults) experienced untimely parental death. In this group, the interaction will be informed by the theme of premature loss and its residual effects.
The therapeutic work will address potential blocks to relationship intimacy, to the ability to sustain joy, and to a sense of self as a fully competent adult.
This group is ongoing, meeting twice monthly.
Fee Schedule: Individuals
Center for Bereavement’s counseling and therapy fees are reasonable. Bills can be submitted by the client to the insurance company for allowable out-of-network reimbursement. Workshops, consultations, crisis intervention and group debriefing, and supervision fees are industry average or less.
- Individual Counseling and Therapy:
Sliding Scale
- Bereavement Groups:
$50 per person per session
- Early Parental Loss Group for Adults:
$50 per person per session
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212-289-8570; email: ms@centerforbereavement.com
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