Testimonials For Sandy Vanderveen
I felt I could share my grief with my facilitator and she was a very good listener.
One-on-One Support07/30/2024Participant in Courtenay, BC
One-on-One Support04/30/2024Participant in Courtenay, BC
One-on-One Support04/09/2024Participant in Courtenay, BC
Support Groups02/29/2024Participant in Courtenay, Bc
The program is great, it was so nice to have Sandy’s support and guidance
One-on-One Online Support08/16/2023Participant in Comox, Bc
Such valuable information not only for helping the children in my life, but for me to personally understand grief better. Highly recommend the Helping Children With Loss to anyone who works with children or has kids in their life.
Helping Children With Loss05/18/2023Participant in Courtenay, BC
It has provided one framework and system for understanding and coping with grief. Very helpful to me currently and hopefully in the future for myself and children.
Support Groups03/28/2023Participant in Courtenay, Bc
I found it very helpful to have the built in accountability to follow through on each week's homework. As the emotional content increased in the homework, it was very good to have a deadline to be working towards for completing homework exercises which were emotionally charged and difficult to process mentally. I also appreciated the non judgemental, listening only, nature of providing my completed homework to the counsellor. I tended to stray from the main focus at times and there was no judgement or time constraint on me when this happened. The step by step method was good, although, I misunderstood the intent of completing the week one homework before my first session so in essence I completed 2 sessions in one session because of this. I did not find this challenging as I had read ahead in the book anyway.
One-on-One Support02/15/2023Participant in Courtenay, BC
One-on-One Support02/15/2023Participant in Courtenay, BC
Helping Children With Loss02/02/2023Participant in Courtenay, BC
I highly recommend the Helping Children with Loss program through the Grief Recovery Institute. It offered practical tools that I began using right away and will continue to refer to in years to come.
Helping Children With Loss02/02/2023Participant in Courtenay, BC
Having a structure to work through things that have happened in my life was very helpful. Using tools and formula to move through my grief was helpful.
One-on-One Support01/31/2023Participant in Courtenay, British Columbia
another lens to look through death and grief
Helping Children With Loss12/08/2022Participant in Courtenay, bc
The program has given me tools and methods to examine and try to understand my reactions or non-reactions to grief and loss in my life. doing a relationship graph is very helpful in then continuing on to the letter, I found it clarified many things. The program has allowed me to look at all the losses and grief, and to complete and let go of the pain and bitterness I have been holding onto.
Support Groups10/26/2022
It helped me look deeper into reasons of how I am. Although I only went through sessions without any real training, the sessions assisted my wife and I to "Check - In" with each other and also at least lead friends/ family towards the need of grief counselling.
Support Groups10/15/2020