The Harbour in Southmead: Specialist Grief Counselling at the new Greenrooms
30/09/2025
Here at the Trust we are delighted to be working with The Harbour as valued partners. They are one of the first organisations to begin practicing from our new therapy suite in our newly renovated Greenrooms building.
They have also been delivering training to both the Trust’s children and adult service teams, based at Greenway.
We warmly welcome The Harbour to Southmead and thank them for the valuable services they are bringing. A bit from them:
National research shows that when it comes to dying and bereavement we are struggling to talk. The Harbour charity has been providing specialist counselling to help thousands of people in the Bristol area to live well with grief since 1992. They provide a safe space to talk and be listened to for those facing their own death, or the death of a loved one, or when they have been bereaved.
For many people, support from loved ones will be enough to help them through their grief. But for others it is not. Through counselling, people can confront their most uncomfortable emotions about death, dying and bereavement; they can explore feelings that can be difficult to share with family and friends.
The Harbour offers counselling to individuals, couples and groups. Last year 100% of clients rated their relationship with their therapist as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’.
We support almost 200 people every year, with 90% accessing our service free of charge or heavily subsidised. More than 80% of our clients reported reduced feelings of anxiety and depression, and improved emotional wellbeing, following a course of counselling with The Harbour.
The Harbour is working with Lockleaze Neighbourhood Trust, and Southmead Development Trust at Greenway Centre to ensure our service is more easily accessible to those living in the north of the city. Sessions are also available from our central location on Frogmore Street in the city centre. For more info online click HERE Or email: info@the-harbour.org.uk, or telephone: 0117 925 9348