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Support, guidance and therapy for families and children following the loss of loved one. Butterfly Bereavement Service provides support and advice to parents and children in the aftermath of the loss of a loved one. Ailish provides consultation, counselling and play therapy to children while working closely with parents in understanding grief and finding a way to cope with the unimaginable.
Ailish also provides guidance to schools in supporting children who have been bereaved and training to professionals.
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Really good day at the Irish Child Bereavement Network Conference on Friday. My highlight was Elke Barber ( Thompson) . I have used her books so many times with children and families encountering loss. Her story is so honest and the explanation's to her children show how parents can somehow find the words to tell the most difficult news. Elke is an inspiration to all.
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Looking forward to hearing Elke tomorrow at ICBN conference!
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Hi Everyone, Welcome to my Facebook page! Butterfly Bereavement Service is a new and exciting development in my work with children and families experiencing loss. I offer my experience, knowledge and skills in working with loss, to support children and families in finding ways to understand what has happened after the death of that special person, and to help them cope with the feelings of grief throughout their life journey.
Ailish Lydon is a professionally qualified social worker and practitioner in therapeutic play skills. Ailish has been working with children and families for 14 years and has a specialist skills in bereavement and loss. Ailish has provided specific bereavement counselling to children through her work in hospitals, hospice and Barnardo’s (NI) Child Bereavement Service. Much of her work with children involves direct therapeutic work with the child but she also provides support and advice to families coping through a traumatic bereavement such as suicide, murder or other complex circumstances. Ailish provides non directive play therapy to children and young people who have experienced trauma or abuse, loss or separation and anxiety or emotional difficulties.
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