When will I feel “normal” again? When will I stop crying? What “stage of grief” am I in?
The death of a loved one can have us asking many questions.
At Community Grief Support (CGS) we understand that each person’s grief journey is as unique as the person themself. We understand that not everyone is ready or feels comfortable joining one of our many free community grief support groups. We understand that there are times in your grief journey you may need more specialized individual grief care from a trained bereavement therapist. This specialized care may only be needed for a short period of time and some may need longer grief care.
That is why CGS offers low cost individual counseling sessions either in-person or online. These sessions may need to be weekly or bi-weekly, depending on the level of care needed.
How Can Counseling Help?
• Safe, confidential relationship to share your experiences of loss
• Release of emotional pain
• Growth in self-understanding
• Assistance in making good decisions which promote self-care and in mobilizing resources
• Addressing and resolving relational conflict
• Learning of coping skills
• Acquiring relevant, timely, and accurate information concerning loss survivorship
• Accessing support from fellow loss survivors
• Addressing spiritual concerns
How Much Does It Cost?
At Community Grief Support we understand that financial concerns can keep people from seeking the care they need, which is why our grief support groups are free to attend. Our individual counseling services are provided by Belinda Kock, LPC (pronounced Cook). Individual sessions may be covered by some insurances or on a very generous sliding scale need, however, we continue to provide grief counseling free of charge for those without the
resources to pay.
For more information, please click the “contact counselor” button above to set up a phone consultation with Belinda.
We ask that all counselees or prospective counselees, whenever possible, provide us with a minimum of twenty-four hours’ notice of cancellation so that appointment times can be made available to other loss survivors.
Prior to making a counseling appointment or registering for a support group with Community Grief Support, please consider the following:
Our agency provides service to adult individuals that has experienced a death-related loss. Because of limited staffing and resources, our agency is not equipped to provide individuals with the longer term counseling that is needed to address certain types of complicated grief – bereavement grief that is made more complex by the presence of multiple, additional stressors: acute and longstanding mental health concerns (including substance abuse), and depression and anxiety resulting from medical disability, chronic relationship, career and financial problems, early childhood traumas and losses, and the like. We can provide referrals to other counseling providers for those individuals experiencing more complicated grief concerns.
While Community Grief Support provides crisis intervention service (including phone consultation) to current and former counselees and support group members, we do not provide this service to the public at large. We can normally schedule a counseling session for a prospective counselee within one to two weeks of request, and sometimes sooner.
If you are in need of immediate assistance, please contact the Crisis Center of Central Alabama at 323-7777 or reach out to the 988 national crisis hotline.