Supporting those who've experienced pregnancy & baby loss with Kate Stanton

The Workshop

Kate Stanton brings her passion and experience as an integrative counsellor, children’s nurse, work as a bereavement care trainer for Sands, and mum to Louis to this workshop on working with pregnancy loss and the death of a baby.

Over the past 30 years, in different settings Kate has been alongside parents as they have experienced the death of a child, from early miscarriage to adult children. She has listened to their stories, and supported them as they search for possible meaning and identity in this new world they find themselves in.

This 2.5 hr workshop will focus on loss as a result of early miscarriage through to sudden unexpected death in infancy. It will provide an introduction to considering ways that each parent can be supported through a therapeutic / support relationship.

The workshop will share the voice of parents and their experience of counselling, considering what has helped and what has not as they find their own way to live again which honours their experience of loss.

There will be space to ask questions and share experience.

Kate's Bio

Kate Stanton is an integrative counsellor whose practice is informed by Person Centred Therapy, Existential Therapy, Internal Family Systems and Narrative Therapy. She is based in Devon, UK

Prior to training as a counsellor, Kate worked as a nurse, specialising in end of life care and support and working with children with life-limiting conditions and their families.

Kate is also a trainer for 3 leading bereavement Charities – Sands, Cruse and Child Bereavement UK, and volunteer as a Grief Support Worker for Balloons – a charity based in South Devon supporting children and young people who have experienced a significant bereavement.

For many years Kate met with bereaved parents in her work as a children’s nurse. She found that often the most important skill she offered was to listen and listen well. There was no fix for this grief, and often the “fix” was to “be”, rather than to “do”.

In her therapeutic work Kate supports anyone who has experienced the death of a child -from early miscarriage to adult children, alongside working as a bereavement care trainer for Sands where she meets a wide range of health professionals – including counsellors, to improve the support that families receive when they experience pregnancy loss at any stage.

Kate brings a wealth of professional and personal experience to her training as well as a passion for improving the confidence and competence of those working in this area and a commitment to challenging the pathologisation of people’s distress.

Find out more about Kate here

Event Venue

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