Grief counselling in Melbourne.

When people think of grief, they often think of losing someone to death. But grief can also follow a relationship breakdown, a miscarriage, a diagnosis, an estrangement, the loss of a career or identity, or the slow recognition that a future you had planned is not going to happen. All of these are real losses. All of them deserve space.

Counselling does not ask you to move on or find a silver lining. It offers a steady, unhurried place to feel what you are feeling, at whatever pace your nervous system allows.

Grief is not only an emotion. It changes your nervous system, your sleep, your concentration, your appetite and your sense of time. It can make you feel foggy, exhausted, or strangely numb one moment and overwhelmed the next. Understanding what is happening physiologically often brings relief: this is not you falling apart. This is your system processing something enormous.

Leah draws on somatic awareness and polyvagal-informed practice to help you understand and work with the physical experience of grief, not just the cognitive one.

Grief is often exhausting. Sessions are available in person at 167 Drummond Street, Carlton, or online from wherever you are. Both options offer the same quality of care and support.