Welcome to Next Chapter Bereavement Services

A dedicated service for widowed parents and schools who are looking after parentally bereaved children.

As a coach, counsellor and mental health consultant I can provide a bespoke service to meet your needs. I work both face to face and online.

As a widowed parent, you will know the feeling of disorientation and fogginess that comes after the death of a partner. Whenever you’re ready and wherever you are in your bereavement journey, I can help you step out of that darkness and move with less fear into your future.

Widowed parents

Witnessing a child go through the pain of losing a parent can often feel overwhelming for staff in schools. I offer consultation to schools to help them think about the specific needs of bereaved children and their families, and I can offer direct therapeutic support within school to children and / or their parent.

Schools

Sometimes children and young people may need a space of their own to work through some of their feelings of loss. With 9 years experience in Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services I am ideally placed to provide counselling services for children and young people.

Children & teens

Group Coaching Programme

Focusing on rebuilding your life after loss

Further details coming soon.

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Thank you.

"Fiona is empathic, understanding, a great listener, she has a wonderful way of getting me to come up with the ideas myself, rather than waiting for an instruction of what I should do. Fiona also doesn’t put words in your mouth, she allows you to reach the conclusion yourself, she just supports you on your path to that conclusion.”

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Changing seasons (and learning to thrive)
Fiona Wadforth
Changing seasons (and learning to thrive)
Fiona Wadforth

The chill in the air and the biblical rain we’ve had this last week or so has felt like a rather severe jump into autumn. The seasonal switch brings a reminder that change is a normal part of life.

Change is also a natural part of our human life cycle. The life changes we experience can bring on strong emotions that threaten to overwhelm us and leave us in a state of survival. However, I think there is something we can take from nature’s way of managing change … and that’s the art of being adaptable. Read on for my thoughts on how to do this ...

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Fiona Wadforth
Back to School
Fiona Wadforth
Back to School
Fiona Wadforth

And so with the ending of summer, comes the return of school, and this can be hard to adjust to. The start of school signifies a transition – a change from the old and familiar into the beginning of something new and uncertain. For bereaved children, this can be a particularly challenging time. Think about it … they’re about to embark on a change from the old and familiar into the beginning of something new and uncertain. Our children have already experienced the painful emotions of transition when their parent died, and so any kind of transition has the potential to trigger those painful feelings of uncertainty, worry, and fear again.

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Fiona Wadforth
It’s All About You
Fiona Wadforth
It’s All About You
Fiona Wadforth

Being parentally bereaved as a child is a significant life changing event. How can we ensure that our children are able to move forward with resilience and blossom?

As the surviving parent, it is an entirely natural response to want to focus on how your child is coping and make their needs the priority. As a parent you get used to making the personal sacrifices from the moment your child is born. There are, of course, many different tools we can use with children to support them in processing their bereavement but one of the key resources available to them (and the one most children would choose) is YOU.

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Fiona Wadforth