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Elemental Occupational Therapy is an OT service specialising in supporting people living with loss/bereavement. All of our sessions take place outdoors.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-our-tree-of-hope-and-bereavement-service

20/11/2025

Day 4 - COMMUNITY
Grieving children benefit from meeting other young people that are familiar with loss.

Peer understanding and support helps to reduce the shame and confusion that young people may carry following a significant bereavement, and normalise the grieving process. People need people.

19/11/2025

Creativity, nature connection, and fun. These are some ways that we can ‘reach’ our young grieving people. Healing doesn’t have to be always and only ‘hard’. Joy and pain can, and often do, co-exist quite intimately.

First the trust. Then the sharing 💗

18/11/2025

Around 1 in 20 children are bereaved of one or both parents before they reach the age of 16.

On average, a parent dies every 20 minutes in the UK. The scale of childhood grief is almost inconceivable.

Despite this rate, support services are sparse. And in my experience families often feel ill-equipped themselves to communicate with their children about death or loss or how to grieve.

I think we must begin by fully acknowledging the (high) likelihood that our children will experience a significant bereavement. Only then can we start to educate ourselves about what we might do to help them (and us) to both survive and thrive beyond loss. Would you know how to help?

15/11/2025

Exploring emotions.

It might surprise you to learn that we have a lot of fun in our sessions. Finding joyful and creative ways to express difficult thoughts and feelings is essential for engagement with young people.

We don’t sit still for long ☺️

13/11/2025

On 8th March it will be 2 years exactly since I joined the team at and delivered the first Garden for Grief session 💚
Thank you Kendra for this fantastic opportunity 🙏🏼 and of course for making the sessions free to all.

Two whole years of laughter and tears. Two whole years! Dozens of adults and children have shared their stories with me. I’ve delivered hundreds of hours of therapeutic support. Outdoors, year round, nature focused. Come rain or shine. ☀️

From the end of December my North Tyneside sessions will be mostly taking place at a small leafy spot in North Shields. Watch this space for more info and updates on the new venue! Please feel free to email me on elemental.occtherapy@gmail.com if you’d like to enquire about seeking some support 💚

10/11/2025

Sometimes, when a trauma is particularly profound, it can rob us of our voice.

Even when recollecting a time of acute distress, long after the event - it can become very difficult to vocalise our feelings or experiences.

Occupational Therapy is particularly helpful in these cases, as we use carefully adapted meaningful activity to develop trust, build engagement and explore expression.

I’m using an ‘Intensive Interaction’ approach to work alongside this young man and his mutism. We created something beautiful together today and it was wonderful to see him make eye contact and smile 💚 Birkheads Wild

09/11/2025

Remembrance Sunday. ❤️

Bereavement group family drop in held for the last time today. Not yet sure where we will be hosting these going forward - but we will be hosting them. Community is essential. Eyes out for a suitable spot.

07/11/2025

I do love a Friday. Welcome to my open air clinic 🧡

06/11/2025

Remembering is an important part of staying connected to our special person.

Reflecting on who they were, what they loved, and the things we enjoyed together, helps to continue their loving presence in our lives.

Since its Remembrance Sunday this week, we’ve made our own ‘remembering’ poppies.

(n.b. How is there no ‘poppy’ emoji??? 🤷🏼‍♀️)

30/10/2025

SNEAK PREVIEW ☺️

I’ve written a story. It’s going to be a picture book. Here’s a sneak peek of one of the wonderful illustrations by the lovely

Can’t wait to get this out there. A little story for little people (and their grown ups) about learning to live with loss.

All of the proceeds from this book will go towards funding further bereavement support for children and adults. 💗🌿

26/10/2025

Leaf ID, Sign making, and Water colour art. 🌿

Connecting with the natural world, facilitating emotional regulation, exploring interests, and building rapport. Building trust before tentatively exploring loss.

It can take a number of weeks of working together to build trust before children feel able to open up. There is no quick fix. And sometimes all I can do is gently, gradually touch upon their pain and help them to make some kind of sense of their loss.

Truly wonderful work

24/10/2025

How glorious is Autumn 🍂
Rare day off work today so obviously I spent it in the woods 🤣🤷🏼‍♀️💚
Beautiful walk up at Allen Banks.
Northumberland delivering the goods as always.

Address

Whitley Bay

Website

https://www.natureot.com.au/grief_loss_and_nature

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