Often the emotional pain and stresses associated with advancing illness or death are as difficult to overcome as physical symptoms. Victoria Hospice offers a wide range of compassionate and helpful counselling services for patients and families facing death and loss. For example, our counsellors provide help and support: 

• on our Palliative Response Team - a nurse and a counsellor provide short-term crisis consultation to registered Victoria Hospice patients and families in their own homes.
• on our 17-bed palliative care In-Patient Unit at the Royal Jubilee Hospital’s Richmond Pavilion
• in the community, where patients and family members can arrange an appointment for a Victoria Hospice Community Counsellor to come to their own home to talk about experiences facing illness, death and loss
• by offering spiritual and religious care to people of all faiths, cultures and beliefs
• by offering emotional support through music therapy and bedside singing
• through facilitating practical arrangements such as funeral planning or settling the estate
• through bereavement counselling for adults or children for up to one year following the death
• through several helpful information brochures about grief and loss

 Victoria Hospice counselling services are available to both patients and their family members:

• one-on-one
• by telephone
• in person
• in a support group setting

"Thank you for the kindness and caring you gave to my mother during her stay at Victoria Hospice. I received your pamphlet 'Dealing With Grief' brochure and found it very helpful. It made me realize that I'm 'normal'! Our family was blessed to have you in our time of need."

 Contact Counselling & Bereavement Services at Victoria Hospice