Loss & Grief Counselling
The cost of love is loss. When someone or something beloved is gone — including a hoped‑for future — grief touches us all.
Grieving is not just about what’s lost; it’s about learning how to live meaningfully again. With warmth, compassion, and support, you can deeply engage with your loss, reclaim purpose, and gently shape a new way forward.
what grief & loss counselling offers
Space to feel & process
You’re invited to express grief in your own way—whether through anger, sadness, guilt, numbness, or doubt. There is no “right” way.
Meaning‑making & acceptance
Explore how your beliefs, values, and culture shape grief. Learn how to integrate the loss into your life story rather than be defined by it.
Trauma‑aware healing
Loss can shatter assumptions, rupture attachments, and leave you feeling unsafe. Together we’ll work through what feels overwhelming, using practices grounded in safety.
Re‑connecting with self & body
Grief affects your mind, emotions, relationships, body, and spirit. Somatic work, breath awareness, and gentle movement can help you re‑inhabit your body and life in ways that feel aligned.
Building support & belonging
From pregnancy loss (miscarriage, stillbirth) to relational or existential losses—sometimes the hardest part is navigating grief alone, or feeling misunderstood. I offer a holding space where your losses matter, your voice is heard, and your story is honoured.
grief & loss counselling is for you
This work is for you if any of the following ring true:
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You’re coping with miscarriage, stillbirth, or neonatal death
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You’ve made a difficult decision (e.g. abortion) and are experiencing confusion, guilt or grief
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A loved one has died, or someone you've cared for is no longer present
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You feel grief around loss of identity, life‑path, relationship, or health
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You are carrying unexpressed grief—fearful others don’t understand or judgement keeps you silent
grief counselling for women, a trauma-informed approach
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Trauma‑Focused Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (TFACT)
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Gender and neuro-affirming
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Somatic Psychotherapy & breath/body awareness
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Womanly Yoga / somatic movement
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Support that honours cycle, life stage, body, beliefs
a contemporary approach to grief counselling
When we lose someone or something deeply meaningful, grief is not simply a problem to fix — it is a journey to be witnessed, honoured, and gently integrated into the story of your life. In my approach to grief counselling, I blend compassionate presence with body‑aware therapies, in service of your ongoing healing.
Trauma‑informed & Somatic‑aware
Loss often unsettles the body, the nervous system, our sense of safety. I work from a trauma‑informed foundation that helps you begin to re‑regulate your nervous system, listen to what your body knows, and slowly establish a new felt sense of safety. Mindfulness, breath awareness, and somatic movement provide ways to contact grief in its living, embodied form — not just as an idea or emotion, but as part of your experience.
Narrative & Meaning Making
Rather than rushing toward closure, I support you in creating a relationship with your loss — to remember, to speak, to re‑weave your inner story. Sometimes that means exploring continuing bonds (how to keep connection alive) and sometimes that means gently letting parts of the old way go. The aim is to find a “yes” that feels authentic to your evolving self.
Culturally & Spiritually Resonant
Your beliefs, values, culture and spiritual understandings are central to this work. I hold space for what is sacred, what is invisible, what is uniquely yours. We’ll lean into your meaning systems — be they religious, spiritual, secular — to help your grief find expression in a way that feels true to you.
Relational & Community‑Inflected
Grief is relational — to what was lost, to what remains, to those who journey with us. I believe healing is often catalysed in the presence of others who hold us gently. You’ll be invited to reclaim connection, to experiment with rituals, to gather dialogue with memory and presence, to re‑anchor in belonging.
Pacing & Choice
Loss can feel overwhelming, and there is no “right speed” to grieve. You remain in charge of this process. I attune to your pacing, your readiness, and your own wisdom. We move together — sometimes slow, sometimes steadied, sometimes into new territories you never expected.
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why seek grief counselling with Nina Isabella?
Because I walk with you—not leading you, but alongside you. Because your grief, your story, your pace, your body; all of it matters. Here, you’ll be seen, believed, and held in a space of compassion and trust.
Melbourne:
Fertile Ground Health Group
33 Smith Street Fitzroy
Macedon Ranges:
Twentynine Collaborative Allied Health
29 High Street Kyneton
Online:
via secure telehealth
across Australia
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You don't have to carry this alone, if you're looking for compassionate help reach out and lets explore together