Lola’s case
Her partner Jack was struggling with Lola because he is getting better in moving on with his life and she should be doing the same for her recovery process. Lola appears to be stuck in marinating her thoughts of guilt as to her daughter being young …show more content…
In this manner I was able to, in the second visit, process with Lola goals that she wants to work on by asking her what her expectations from counseling are. This would also give us an idea on when is counseling services were no longer needed.
As the sessions progressed I wanted to let her know that what she is feeling is normal in the grieving process where I presented her with the five stages of grief. I treaded carefully in explain on how these stages of grief are expressed and coped with differently by others who suffer some form of loss.
With both her and I holding brief descriptions of all five stages of grief I asked her if she feels that she is in any of these five stages. Sue stated that she sees herself in the denial, anger, bargaining, and depression stages all at once. I then asked her in what stage she thinks Jack is in. Lola determined that Jack has accepted their daughter’s death and is coping a lot better than she is but she does not understand how he can move on so easily and she