elham has more than 25 years’ of experience in roles across community care contexts, including education, disability, crisis support, healthcare, and palliative and hospice care. Most recently, their work has focused on family support in grief and death care in both adult and paediatric hospice settings. elham holds specific expertise in working with families and staff in these contexts – including holistic family support, team leadership, participatory approaches to end-of-life, grief and bereavement care including community-led approaches to after-death care and navigating the funeral system.

photograph by Dr. Shehab Uddin

About.

elham brings a broad range of professional qualifications, practice knowledge, and specialist training to his work with both clients and health professionals. Further information about his qualifications and employment history can be found here.

Practically, their work with clients and families is grounded in a person-centred approach, seeking to recognise and amplify the existing implicit skills, capacities and expertise that we all bring to challenging life situations.

Professionally, they support organisations and staff teams to strengthen practice through the phenomenological lens of a client or family’s lived experience, alongside evidence-informed approaches. This also includes supporting teams to work more confidently with grief, death, and bereavement – with a focus on practical, sustainable approaches to care, for families and staff/volunteers. 

elham brings specialist skill and experience to translating the nuanced, complex (and often hidden) relational aspects of grief and death care work into forms that can be recognised and appreciated within organisational settings, through engaged reflexive training, service development, and consultation.

SELECTED Professional Services

For Individuals and Families

• Counselling and psychotherapy (grief and bereavement specialty)
• Funeral celebrancy, memorials, and grief ritual facilitation
• Home-based after-death care support (for families, friends, or chosen family caring for their dead at home)

For Teams and Organisations

• Group facilitation and reflective practice
• Professional grief and death care training
• Professional supervision
• Consultancy in holistic grief, death, and after-death care, and family support across palliative and hospice contexts

enquiries are welcome via email. elham would welcome the opportunity to discuss support to your organisation or team.