Bereavement Support

The Bereavement Support Team provide bereavement counselling to adults living in County Durham. Our Children’s Bereavement Support Team can help children and teenagers to make some sense of their feelings using a range of  age-appropriate activities and therapies.

This care also extends to people in our community with no connection to the Hospice and we offer bereavement  counselling to adults in County Durham:

• who have a life-limiting illness themselves
• who have someone they care about that has a life-limiting illness
• who have experienced bereavement through a life-limiting illness

This service is both free and confidential. Referrals can be made by any health professional using the forms at the bottom of this page.

Our Children’s Bereavement Service, the Jigsaw Project, works with Children and Young People who have experienced bereavement. We have a specially designed children’s area in the Hospice where our experienced counsellors can help families through difficult times. This service is open to referrals from the whole of County Durham and is available to any child affected by grief or anticipatory grief relating to family, relatives and friends. Find out more about Children’s Bereavement Services.

The team can also offer training courses on a variety of issues around loss and bereavement. These can be tailored for the individual and their personal loss or professional groups for use in a work-place setting.

If the forms below won’t download please try a different web browser such as Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. For general enquires about Bereavement Support please call 0191 386 1170 option 3.