Storymaking in Bereavement

Gersie is intuitive, sensitive and wise as she guides her readers into the territory of bereavement, love and loss... Each storymaking structure is exciting and brimming with potential... Now we have a tool that gives us a little more courage compassion and insight so that we too are better armed to fight dragons in the meadow.

The Arts in Psychotherapy

This is a fascinating book which may reunite readers with stories of their childhood and provide new insights into their meaning. It presents an innovative approach to bereavement counselling which reflects the wise counsel of some of the original story tellers and the oral tradition which we have lost.

British Journal of Occupational Therapy

This book is beautifully written. It is immensely rich in its use of story, metaphor and literary allusion to illustrate the process of grief and healing...moving and deeply compassionate.

Counselling

This is an erudite, imaginative book by an author who is deeply involved in her topic and is an enjoyable and absorbing read...of value to course leaders and students on courses covering loss, separation and divorce, abortion, terminal illness and death...

Nursing Times