Grief Guide

17/09/2026

This is a peek behind the curtain...

This is my view when we meet for a telehealth session.

🪷 In my comfy chair, from the clinic or my home office.
🪷 A cuppa (coffee, always, never tea.)
🪷 A water bottle next to me, (tap water with a handful of ice cubes, one thrown the dog's way.)
🪷 Notepad and pen (a Ladybird Care Foundation - Support for Grieving Parents pen, of course.)

Legs crossed or up on the table. I'm quite a fan of a seated pretzel position.

Ready to be fully present to whatever comes.

🪷 Welcome to Grief Guide. I'm so glad you're here. 🪷

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10/09/2026

I'm thrilled to have been invited back to this year's Death Expo in Toowoomba next month.

I'll be there on behalf of Grief Guide and Ladybird Care Foundation - Support for Grieving Parents holding space (both literally and figuratively) to talk openly about death, dying, and grief.

I will also host a Death Café to gather and share a cuppa and connect further over the topic.

What I really love about this day, and expos such as this one, is that it's an offering to the community to gather, to lean into our discomfort about this topic, and plan both practically and emotionally for one of life's most certain experiences.

It's also a place to honour those that have died, and the grief we carry.

🪷 I'm looking forward to it, and I hope to see you there. Link in my bio to register 🪷

03/09/2026

This week I helped someone close to me put together a funeral slideshow.

Going through the photos, we noticed how many people were missing from the story , not because they weren't important or not there, but because of things like:

🪷 Not liking having their photo taken
🪷 Feeling awkward in front of a camera
🪷 Not feeling comfortable in their own body

The result is the same either way; no photos of that precious connection. Nothing to come back to when we want to spark a memory, or lean into the love and the grief.

I wonder if it helps to think about photos differently.

Yes, photos are for now, but they're also for long after we're gone, for the people who knew how we looked, how we felt, how awkward we could be, and loved us anyway.

Sometimes photos are all that's left. And my goodness, they're meaningful.

🪷 Take good care. I'm here if you need. 🪷

01/09/2026

When I first started Grief Guide, colleagues asked if I was limiting myself by only working with grief. My answer hasn't changed; grief comes from many life experiences, not only death.

You don't feel a challenge without some grief riding shotgun. Even the things we had wanted.

🪷 Loss of a job.
🪷 A relationship.
🪷 A sense of self.
🪷 Our bodies doing what we ask of them.
🪷 Our parents ageing.
🪷 A changing season.
🪷 And yes, the death of a loved (or not so loved) one.

I'll keep sharing what I'm working with, to raise awareness of the struggles we and those around us carry, often without acknowledgement. These are some of my courageous clients' experiences.

Some of it may resonate.

🪷 Welcome to Grief Guide.
Your loss, of any type, is welcome here. 🪷

29/08/2026

You can't look through this window without seeing the curtains.

That's grief, sometimes; a screen over everything. You're still looking at the world, but nothing comes through unfiltered anymore.

From outside, people just see you through the window, they don't see the curtain. Most of the time, they don't know it's there.

🪷 Grief isn't always visible. 🪷

And it's not only attached to a death.

🪷 It's the loss of a role, or a part of yourself.
🪷 A future you'd been counting on that isn't happening now.
🪷A relationship fading out slowly, over years, not all at once.
🪷 Watching someone's care needs grow and the shape of your relationship change with it. Disappointment. Heartache.

And even when someone has died, no two people grieve that death the same way. What you're carrying is only ever really known to you.

We're not all looking at the world the same way. I don't think that's a bad thing, I think it means we get curious instead of assuming.

So, what's happening for you? What do you need? What can I offer?

Welcome to Grief Guide, I'm so glad you're here.

21/08/2026

You can't hold someone else's losses well if you've not acknowledged your own.

Death competence isn't a technique, it's knowledge, emotional resilience, and the willingness to look at your own mortality, honestly, before you sit with someone else's.

We have no right to ask our clients to do something we're not willing to do ourselves.

🪷 Have you heard this concept before?
What do you think? 🪷

GriefTherapist

18/08/2026

The titles get used interchangeably, but they're not the same.

🪷 A psychiatrist is a medical doctor. They diagnose and prescribe medication, often managing complex mental illness alongside a treatment team.

🪷 A psychologist studies the mind and behaviour in depth, with a strong focus on assessment, diagnosis, and evidence-based treatment for specific conditions.

🪷 A social worker looks at the person within their systems; family, housing, finances, and community. They connect the dots between someone's wellbeing and the world they live in.

🪷 A counsellor sits in the overlap- that's me. 🪷

I did my undergrad in psychology and my Masters in counselling. I know the DSM-V. I understand psychological conditions, but my focus has never been diagnosing, and it's certainly not prescribing.

My focus is you.
How you're living inside yourself, inside your family, inside the systems around you.
🪷 What does grief look like in the middle of all that?
🪷 How is it different from depression?
🪷 How does anxiety show up?
🪷 Is there trauma sitting in between it all?

None of us work in isolation. Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counsellors- we work in tandem, each bringing a different focus and a different skillset. And within each profession, every individual therapist works differently again; different training, different modalities, different ways of being with a client.

So here's what I say to every prospective client; I'm not the right fit for everyone, and that's okay. I hope I will be for you. I hope I can help; that's why I do this work.

🪷 But if I'm not, I promise you I'll do my best to point you toward someone who is. 🪷

Your experience matters to me, whatever that support ends up looking like, and whoever ends up walking alongside you.

14/08/2026

Today I held my quarterly Death Café.

A table full of people who chose to sit together and talk about death and grief.

We didn't hide in a back corner. We sat right in the middle of a busy cafe, boldly, having the conversations most people avoid.

🪷 I'm grateful for that. 🪷

Grateful that they trusted me to hold the space, and grateful they trusted each other enough to show up and be honest about their experiences- not the sanitised version of them.

🪷 These conversations matter. 🪷

The more we talk about death, the less alone we might feel in grief.

Thank you to everyone who came along today, and I hope to see you again next quarter 🪷