Excela Health Home Care & Hospice at Independence Health System has
a team of Grief Support Counselors available to inform, support and guide
patients and families through the grief process before, at the time of,
and after the death of a loved one.
They also work to anticipate and respond to community education and supportive
needs related to bereavement.
In Person Support
“Neighborhood Kids” is a family-based bereavement support program
designed to bring families together during a time of loss and sadness,
using alternative therapies such as art, music and pets to help children
work through grief.
Click here for information on the 2024 Neighborhood Kids program.
For adults looking for support after the loss of a loved ones, Bereavement
Counselors invite you to share your stories with others who grieve.
Click here to see the schedule for the in-person support groups
Grief Support
Grief does not feel usual, average or typical and therein lies the issue.
Listen as an Excela Health Home Care & Hospice grief counselor discusses
the struggles of grief.
Grief Support Counseling: Overview Excela Health bereavement counselor offers information, education, understanding
and comfort to those who have experienced a loss.
Grief Support Counseling: Guilt One of the strongest feelings that we encounter on our grief journey is
the feeling of guilt. An Excela Health bereavement counselor offers insight
into understanding this feeling and ways to cope.
Grief Support Counseling: Heart Technique Grief is often described as feeling broken-hearted. Learn about the “Anchoring
Heart Technique” and how changing your perspective may help to heal
that broken-hearted feeling.
Grief Support Counseling: Grief and Anger Anger is an emotion that is experienced by most grieving people at one
time or another during their grief journey.
Grief Support Counseling: How Can I Help? As we experience the pain of grief, we are able to open our hearts to others.
We deeply empathize, help them and feel understood.
Grief Support Counseling: Coping With Tragedy Learn more about how we cope with local and global tragedy both physically
and mentally.
Children and Grief
When Children Grieve: Infants to Six Years Old
When Children Grieve: Nine to Twelve Years Old
When Children Grieve: Adolescents
Children and Grief
Do you have questions about grief or have a suggestion for a topic?
Contact the grief support staff by emailing
griefsupport@excelahealth.org
Online Support
For anyone with a Facebook profile, Excela Health Home Care & Hospice
offers a public online support group through Facebook Groups. To join
on Facebook, search ‘Excela Health Grief Support’. You will
then have the option to click ‘Join’. After you have requested
to join, a grief counselor will add you to the group.
