Client KS became widowed after his wife of 42 years passed away at the local hospice. He had lots of support from family and friends and after 6 months was still experiencing the full impact of his loss. He was feeling very alone. He felt he could not talk about his feelings with his family as he did not want them to worry about him as he said they had their own busy lives. We initially worked face to face as the counselling work focused on his loss, we then moved to weekly and then fortnightly telephone counselling.