Counselling and Emotional Support

Facing death can feel at times confusing and overwhelming. Our Counsellor and Family Support team provides one-to-one support for adults and young people experiencing loss, grief, and bereavement either before or after someone has died. Our private counselling suite offers you and your family a safe and confidential space for you to explore your thoughts and feelings.

Bereavement counselling is more in-depth form of emotional support. Our Counsellor with offer six individually tailored sessions. Counselling can be offered to individuals and sessions can take place in our private counselling suite, or via the telephone or video call, or in the patient bedrooms in the Inpatient Unit.

Living with a life-shortening condition can bring a complex range of feelings that may be difficult to share with those closest to you. Palliative counselling offers a confidential space to explore feelings, worries and fears relating to diagnosis, dying and death. It focuses on supporting quality of life, coping and wellbeing in ways that are meaningful to you.

Social Work

Our Social Worker can offer you individual support, advice, and guidance on a range of issues, including:

• Carer support
• Housing issues
• Financial information
• Welfare and benefits advice
• Vulnerable adults and child protection concerns
• Legal issues, such as helping you access a solicitor for power of attorney or wills
• Advocating for you with different support services such as care, education, health, and housing

Chaplaincy

Our Chaplain is available to listen, guide and provide spiritual, religious and psychological support. If you wish to meet with our Chaplain, please let a member of the IPU team know. We work closely with faith leaders and belief groups across Glasgow and can arrange for one of them to visit with you at your request. We have a dedicated Sanctuary in the Hospice: a quiet space for peace, reflection and prayer.

Children and Young People

Experiencing a bereavement is one of the most difficult things any of us will ever do, experiencing it as a young person can be especially hard. We provide practical and emotional care for children and young people, their families and carers as well as their teachers tailored to each persons needs. We also offer a bespoke range of support for parents and carers of children and young people.

Music Therapy

Music Therapy uses this connection to improve emotional wellbeing and communication. This is achieved through activities like improvisation, listening to music, or creating songs and playlists together. This can boost resilience, self-confidence, independence, self-awareness, concentration, and communication skills. You can access Music Therapy as an outpatient and in our Inpatient Unit.