Amelia is in her 30’s and came to Aura for counselling after the sudden death of her partner.
She had been away from work for several weeks and felt she couldn’t face people due to their expectations of how she should be feeling and moving through her grief, or perhaps her perceived expectations?
The therapy helped Amelia to return to her job and to reintegrate herself in her working life and her colleagues continued to be supportive of her.
Amelia stated that the therapy helped her to see that her feelings are valid and she is strong enough to get through this difficult time.
John’s relationship broke down during the first lockdown. He was also furloughed from work at the same time so felt extremely isolated and unhappy.
Suddenly he has lost his long-term partner and the company from his colleagues at work.
When he did return to work he struggled not to make work his only thing in life and to try to rebuild relationships with his friends that he had not seen during lockdown.
With 12 sessions John built coping strategies and worked on his confidence and now feels his life is more balanced and active.
Chris had a lack of confidence, low self-worth, anxiety and suicidal thoughts, this was due to abuse suffered in his childhood.
Chris was unemployed and failed to see how he could contribute to his community in any way.
They are now volunteering for a local charity to gain more confidence to enter the world of work, once again.
Chris described his 12-week journey with Aura as enlightening.
May had started to enjoy a drink alone during Covid 19.
May felt ok with this but on being able to rejoin her family, the family were concerned so really May felt forced into entering therapy. She did give it a go and is now happy that she did and was able to talk about her isolation and how she felt she needed to rely on alcohol at that time without being judged.
