Death of a Child or a Parent, Grief Counseling in Dubai is offered at LightHouse Arabia

When someone in our life dies, it can turn our world upside down. Whether you have experienced the death of a child, the death of a parent, the death of a spouse or partner, the death of a family member, the death of a coworker, or the death of a friend – we understand that your life has been impacted and will never be the same again.

Raymee Grief Center is a pro-bono initiative through The LightHouse Arabia and the first of its kind free-of-charge grief support service in the UAE.

Our Services Include:

Grief Support Groups
Educational Grief Talks
Grief Sensitivity Workshops
Family/Nanny Consultations
Volunteer Training
Organization Policy Consultations
Reading Resource Room

Our Mission
We, at Raymee Grief Center, will provide cost-free support and education to the children, teens, and adults of United Arab Emirates that are affected by grief. We will do this by dedicating ourselves to ensure that individuals affected by a death of someone significant to them have a safe place to express and experience their pain as they journey through the grief process towards a place of healing.

Guiding Principles
Raymee Grief Center is modeled on The Dougy Center - the National Center for Grieving Children and Families in the U.S. (www.dougy.org). Similar to The Dougy Center model, Raymee Grief Center’s central belief is that every child, teen, and adult deserves the opportunity to grieve in a supportive and understanding environment. Unfortunately, most societies fail to understand or support the needs of an individual in grief. Based on these beliefs, the four principles of the grief support program are:

Grief is a natural reaction to loss of a loved one for children as well as adults.
Within each individual is the natural capacity to heal one’s self.
The duration and intensity of grief are unique for each individual.
Caring and acceptance assist in the healing process.

Our Approach

Raymee Grief Center is a place where mutual support is offered and acceptance is practiced through listening and sharing.
We respect each other as unique individuals and trust in each individual’s ability to heal. We believe that this healing happens best when individuals are provided with a safe environment where they can express and explore their experience of grief.
We recognize that both the facilitators and the participants will experience their own grief and growth, and the goal for each of us is personal healing.
We do not fix people. Grief is a natural process and a griever is not “broken.” By respecting the needs of each unique individual, we do not give advice unless it is solicited by the individual.

Support Groups
Raymee Grief Center holds free grief support groups for children, teens, and adults at The LightHouse Arabia clinic. These groups take place every other Monday from 5:30pm to 7pm and are run concurrently in separate rooms in the clinic.

Our groups are divided by age to ensure individuals can process grief at their developmental level and include:

Littles group: ages 3-5
Middles group: ages 6-12
Teen group: ages 13-18
Adult group: ages 18+

Before participating in our grief support groups, each new member will be scheduled for an intake appointment. This procedure is to help orient new members to the group and to help screen for people who may need more intensive grief counseling in Dubai. There is no charge for this intake appointment or to attend any of our grief support groups.

Who can attend our grief support groups?

Children ages 3+ who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling, other family member, or friend
Teens who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling, other family member, friend, coworker, or boyfriend/girlfriend
Adults who have experienced the death of a child, death of a spouse or partner, death of a parent, sibling, other family member, coworker, or friend.

If you would prefer to receive individual grief counseling in Dubai or to receive this in addition to attending our support groups, please contact The LightHouse Arabia clinic at +971 4 380-9298 to book an appointment with one of our psychologists who specializes in grief counseling in Dubai.

Grief Talks
Raymee Grief Center holds regular educational talks on subjects related to death and grief. These talks usually occur on Sundays from 5:30pm to 7pm. The talks are fully sponsored by The LightHouse Arabia, so there is no charge to attend, but seats are open to anyone in the community by RSVP only. If you would like information on the upcoming Grief Talk, to RSVP, or to suggest topics for future Grief Talks, please contact Carey Kirk at ckirk@lighthousearabia.com or call the LightHouse Arabia clinic at +971 4 380-9298.

Grief Sensitivity Workshops
Grief doesn’t stay at home. 100% of all businesses and organizations will have times when either a member of staff or a customer is grieving the death of someone significant to them. How your management team and other staff respond to these individuals has a profound effect on your work environment and customer satisfaction rates.

Our bereavement specialists offer tailor-made workshops and trainings that can fit the needs of any organization or business. These workshops are aimed at improving your work environment and customer service by helping your management and employees become more psychologically minded about grief.

For more information about how these workshops can benefit your business or organization, call +971 4 380-9298 or email raymee@lighthousearabia.com

Why we do this?
Healthy grieving is not just important for the bereaved; it is important for the entire community. Research has shown that grief that is bottled up and unprocessed can result in major depression, anxiety, insomnia, relationship problems, coping problems, social withdrawal, and feelings of loneliness that can start in childhood and extend into adulthood. (link to Effects of Parental Bereavement )

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