Whether you suffer from complicated grief or Broken Heart Syndrome, our social support groups and grief counselors can help. With their support, you can learn to cope with your loss in a healthy way and start moving on with your life. Remember that there is no right or wrong way to grieve, so don’t hesitate to reach out for help.
To speak to a Longleaf Hospice grief counselor, please call 770-939-9179.
When you book a free consultation with us, we will answer any questions you might have about Hospice Care, our services, and our team. We want to understand your loved one’s health condition. If they are eligible for Hospice care, we will work together to figure out the best plan for their unique needs.
One of the biggest steps to recovering from your grief is understanding it better. How people experience grief depends on many factors, including their own personality and coping style, the nature of the loss itself (whether it was expected or sudden), any previous losses they have experienced, and how much support they have from family, surviving friends, religious communities, and even coworkers.
Some of the most common models we can reference when exploring someone’s grief include the four tasks of mourning, the dual-process model, and the five stages of grief.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross created the five stages of grief in 1969 after performing death studies on 500 terminally ill patients. She found that people face five very distinct phases when working through loss: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
This model can help you understand some of your own responses, but keep in mind that you shouldn’t apply the different stages too rigidly. Some might experience a long depressive episode, while others suffer intense sadness. This is why professional guidance is so important.
Complicated grief is a more severe form of grief that doesn’t fade over time like typical grief. Instead, it continues to cause distress long after the loss has occurred and interferes with your daily life on a regular basis. If you’ve experienced the following symptoms for more than six months after your loss, you might be suffering from complicated grief.
With so many forms of grief, it’s only natural that there is no cookie-cutter treatment that magically solves everyone’s problems. We at Longleaf Hospice & Palliative Care work hard to develop tailor-made programs for each and every one of our clients, including:
These are just some of the many services we offer to help the grieving. If you would like more information on our programs, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our compassionate team.
While this may not be the right choice for everyone, group grief counseling can help you realize that you’re not alone in your grief journey. Bereavement groups help individuals process their emotions through other people’s stories and common experiences.
If you’re considering family therapy, receiving grief counseling together as a group may also offer motivation and provide a bonding experience. You can lean on each other for support and stay engaged with the programs provided by our team of counselors, who meet to discuss what you’ve learned together as a family unit.
It’s also not uncommon for a grieving person to meet the diagnostic criteria for a mental disorder after experiencing a traumatic event. If you feel detached from life and suffer from depressive symptoms after the death of your loved one, a grief counselor may help prevent the development of a full-blown mental disorder.
We can also work with your clinical psychologist or psychiatrist to ensure that you get the best possible care.
At Longleaf Hospice & Palliative Care, we remain committed to providing loss counseling and mental health services that help people recover from the loss of a loved one. Not only are these services free, but they are also open to everyone—not just our grieving clients.
If you’re ready to receive counseling help after experiencing significant loss, we’re here to support you. Call us at 770-939-9179 and get professional advice from our Longleaf team today.
When you book a free consultation with us, we will answer any questions you might have about Hospice Care, our services, and our team. We want to understand your loved one’s health condition. If they are eligible for Hospice care, we will work together to figure out the best plan for their unique needs.
Care in conjunction with primary treatments as an extra layer of support.
Palliative care focuses on the pain symptoms and stress of a serious illness most often as an adjunct to curative care modalities.
Provided in a residential setting to ensure comfort and security.
Receive regularly scheduled visits to address the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of your loved ones in your preferred residential setting.
Simple pain and symptom management for families and patients.
Our goal for inpatient hospice care is to improve our patient’s quality of life. We also include the family in our care plan so that everyone receives the support they need.
Providing necessary comfort during a pain or symptom crisis.
We offer around-the-clock hospice care services to address the concerns of patients facing life-limiting conditions and provide support for their families.
Temporary relief for the patient’s primary caregiver.
Our respite care options allow primary caregivers to take a break, reconnect, disconnect, or just tend to their individual needs.
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