Locations vary, and some services are available online
The Dove Service is funded by the National Lottery Community fund to provide grief training and support to children and young people, parents and carers, and professionals. This is a 5-year project over Staffordshire, Cheshire, and the Wirral.
Our vision is to enable people who are experiencing bereavement, life changing illness or significant loss, to receive the highest quality of care and support to understand their grief and cope with their loss. We deliver our vision by providing counselling and group support activities to anyone who is or could be affected by bereavement, life changing illness or other significant loss.
Counselling for Children and Young People
Are you a child or young person who is thinking about counselling and is wondering what it might be like?
Our counsellors will work creatively with you to find ways of supporting you to express your emotions, and will help you to explore how you feel about what is happening in your world.
If you want to spend your session chatting about what is going on for you then that’s entirely up to you, but you can also use your other skills – like drawing, painting, writing – or you might choose to use other materials in the counselling room to help you express how you feel. We have lots of stuff that you can use to do that, like a dolls house, sand trays, puppets etc. But because it’s your session, and your time, and your feelings, you are the one who decides.
Because it’s your counselling, we keep the contents of your sessions confidential. Your counsellor will look at a counselling contract with you in your first session, and will talk to you about the circumstances under which we might have to involve someone else, but outside those circumstances, it’s your choice what you tell people about your counselling.
To find out more, please Visit the “Why do I feel so Sad?” PDF on the Dove Service website
C&YP Resource Pack for Parents and Professionals
We have put together a Resource Pack for use by parents and professionals who work with and support children and young people (C&YP).
You will find information sheets on loss and grief; information specifically around loss and grief and the effects that this may have on children and young people; plus some activities you can do with your child/young person.
To obtain a copy of the Pack please email us.
The Dove Service is open to community groups, schools, colleges, and organisations.
To find out if this service is available in your local area, please contact us.
Monday to Thursday – 9am to 5pm
Friday – 9am to 4pm
Locations vary, and some services are available online
Please check with Dove Service for any costs
Phone: 01782 914455
Email: enquiries@thedoveservice.org.uk
Alternatively, contact us directly via our website. Visit the Contact Us page on the The Dove Service website
Please contact us by phone or email to find out more.
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