Men's Counsellor and EMDR Therapist working with Anxiety, Depression and Baby loss in Porthleven, Helston, Cornwall and Online
How Men Experience Baby Loss Differently
Baby loss can affect men in ways that are rarely talked about. This piece looks at how grief shows up for men, why it can return unexpectedly, and why many men struggle alone for longer than they need to.
Anger, Numbness, and Distance After Baby Loss Why These Reactions Are Common in Men and What Actually Helps
This article explores how men commonly experience baby loss, including miscarriage, stillbirth, and neonatal loss, and why reactions such as anger, emotional numbness, and distance are normal responses to grief and trauma. It explains how the nature of the loss, whether sudden, medical, or involving traumatic decisions, can affect the nervous system and relationships. The article also outlines the difference between grief and trauma, including PTSD symptoms such as flashbacks and anxiety, and discusses which types of therapy may help, including counselling and EMDR. Written for men across the UK, it offers reassurance, evidence-based insight, and a compassionate understanding of male grief after baby loss.
Men and Baby Loss: How Grief Affects Men and Relationships
Baby loss affects men deeply, but grief often looks different. This article explores how men experience miscarriage and stillbirth, why relationships can feel strained, and how couples recover over time. Grounded in research and clinical experience, it offers reassurance and guidance for men across the UK.
When You Have Carried It Long Enough: Why Men Deserve Space to Heal
A grounded and supportive blog written for men who often keep their struggles to themselves. It explores why so many men carry anxiety, depression, trauma and baby loss alone and explains how counselling and EMDR can help them regain clarity, confidence and emotional steadiness. The piece also highlights the availability of face to face and online therapy, and lets readers know they may be able to access sessions through Bupa insurance.
Why So Many Men Are Struggling in Silence and What Actually Helps
Many men in the UK struggle in silence with anxiety, depression and trauma. This blog explores why it happens, how it shows up and how therapy can genuinely help men find a way forward.
PTSD in Fathers After NICU Stays | Therapy & Support for Men
Fathers can struggle with depression, PTSD and grief after NICU, baby loss or traumatic birth. Learn how counselling, CBT and EMDR support men’s mental health.
Men’s Therapy After NICU Trauma | Counselling for Dads in Cornwall & Online UK
Struggling after a NICU stay or premature birth? Lee is a men’s counsellor in Cornwall offering online therapy UK wide. Specialist support for dads facing anxiety, depression, baby loss and trauma.
Baby Loss Counselling for Men | Therapy in Cornwall & Online
Baby loss counselling for men. Safe, supportive therapy for dads coping with miscarriage or stillbirth. Sessions in Cornwall & online across the UK.
“After the Silence: Why Men Need Space to Grieve Baby Loss : And How I Can Help”
This blog explores the silence many men face after baby loss, highlighting the lack of psychological support available, particularly for fathers. It draws on findings from the latest Sands report, revealing that most bereaved parents, especially men, struggle to access suitable help. Written by Lee, a male counsellor and fellow bereaved dad, it offers insight into how therapy can support men in grief. Lee shares how his personal experience, combined with professional tools like EMDR, creates a safe and relatable space for healing. The message is clear: grief is not weakness, and men deserve space to be heard, supported, and understood.
The Silent Grief: Male Baby Loss
The Silent Grief: Male Baby Loss When a baby is lost, the world often turns its attention to the mother. But fathers grieve too—and often in silence. Male baby loss is a heartbreak that’s rarely acknowledged, let alone understood. Men are expected to be strong, to support their partners, to hold it together. But behind […]
EMDR in Cornwall
The brain much like the body has an innate capacity for healing. However, like the body when the brain is overwhelmed, or the injury is too great it may need help to heal. With the body a cut to the arm may become infected and need antibiotics. It is at this point that the body can’t facilitate the healing itself. Similarly, the brain when overwhelmed by a large trauma such as an accident or many small traumas may become overwhelmed and unable to heal itself, as such we may experience flashbacks, anxiety, depression and other difficult presentations need some additional […]
Bereavement Counselling in Helston
Bereavement ‘Time is the best healer’ seems to be the phrase people use the most when we’ve lost someone close to us. But how true is this? And what has your experience been? Grief Theory There are many models of grief but the only one I found truly resonated with me was Tonkins model. He […]
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