As a grief and bereavement counsellor, my role is to support you find a passage with your pain and to provide information to normalise what you are experiencing.

Many in our community struggle to understand the array of feelings that can bombard you in the midst of your loss.

I provide a safe space for you to express yourself and to provide information and support for your grief.

The place to be allowed and encouraged to speak about your loss over and over again without judgement.

Journey

I volunteered as a palliative care worker for Mercy Palliative Care in 2012. The detailed education program provided ignited a passion, and from that, I continued to volunteer and to continue my studies with The Australian Center for Grief and Bereavement.

I achieved a Graduate Certificate in Bereavement Counselling and Intervention 2013-2014. As I had a Certificate previously in Soul-Centered Psychotherapy from the Kairos Centre.

After four years at Mercy, I felt that I had served my apprenticeship and wanted to offer my skills and knowledge to others outside the mercy framework.

I opened my office in Point Cook in August 2017

Approach

There are many Psychologists, counsellors, social workers who have an understanding of grief and loss. They also have many clients/patients with other needs and as I feel very passionate about providing a focus for those who are bereft and overwhelmed by their grief.

Often when a loved one has died their support and comfort is initially very present, and then the focus dwindles away, and the person is still in grief. They are not sure how to make sense of their feelings as life has changed forever.

I can be with their grief, their pain, their bewilderment and to help provide a safe place for them to explore start to understand this place they are now in, I can provide information and support to normalise their feelings.

I enjoy people; I am affected by their life stories and by their humanity. I am moved by the lives they have loved and continue to love after death.

I want to be able to talk about death, loss, grief, pain, anguish, despair and of transformation.

A loss is a change and change can bring chaos and yearning for life to be the same as always. And it will never be the same again.

Future

I imagine my business as a focus in the local community that can embrace loss, grieving, mourning, yearning to enable us all to walk with and grow with grief and still thrive.