Losing someone you love
The death of a partner, parent, child or close friend, whether it was sudden or slowly expected.
Grief Counselling Darwin
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Soul Counselling · Grief Support · Darwin
A gentle place to carry your grief, wherever you are in the Top End
Grief can feel especially lonely so far north. Whether you are in the Darwin CBD, Palmerston, Casuarina or Nightcliff, or a community further out across the Top End, Soul Counselling offers warm, unhurried support after a death, a relationship ending or a life that has changed shape. Sessions are held online and by phone.
Book a free 15-minute assessment → Ask a question firstPrefer to talk first? Call 0479 144 561
For most people, grief slowly softens over time with care, patience and the right support around them, yet research suggests around one in ten bereaved adults carry a prolonged, stuck grief that eases more gently with professional help. In the Northern Territory this can be harder to reach, because Darwin is Australia’s most remote capital and national services are often thin on the ground, so far-north and very remote experiences of loss are easily under-counted and under-served.
Sources: Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement; ABS National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing, 2020 to 2022.
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People keep saying the same thing.
One conversation in, most clients say they’ve finally been understood.
“I truly felt heard for the first time in all my life and deeply understood.”
“When I came to Christina I was drowning in darkness… now I’m finally thriving again.”
“Due to her mediumship I was able to see core issues that I wasn’t able to recognise before.”
How grief might be sitting with you right now
- Waves of sadness that arrive without warning, sometimes in the middle of an ordinary Darwin day, then recede again.
- Feeling wired and unsettled, unable to rest, as though your body is braced for something that has already happened.
- A heavy fog over everything, where getting through work, errands or the school run takes everything you have.
- Guilt, anger or relief tangled together, and a quiet worry that you are grieving the wrong way.
- A loss of who you were, so that your days, your role and your sense of direction no longer feel like they belong to you.
This can weigh even heavier when your family is far away interstate or overseas, or when the build-up and wet season heat keep you indoors with your own thoughts.
How Christina works
How Christina holds grief with you
Grief is not a problem to be solved or a task to be completed. It is love with nowhere to go, and it needs room to breathe rather than to be hurried along. In these sessions there is no timeline, no right shape and no pressure to be further along than you are.
Space to feel
A calm, unhurried hour where whatever you are carrying is welcome, whether that is tears, numbness, anger or silence. Nothing you feel is too much.
A steady witness
Grief often eases a little when it is truly seen. Christina listens closely and stays with you, so you are not holding the weight of it alone.
Your own pace
We follow your lead, not a schedule. There is no rushing toward closure and no expectation that you tidy your loss away.
Go deeper
Read more before you decide anything
This page is short on purpose, because grief deserves more than a few paragraphs. Our grief blog goes deeper into what loss can feel like, why it has no timeline, and the many forms it takes. It may help you feel a little less alone before you reach out.
Read the grief counselling blogNo booking needed. Read first, in your own time.
What we can work through
Common threads in grief
Grief wears many faces, and all of them are valid, whatever you have lost.
The end of a relationship
A separation, divorce or estrangement can bring a grief as real and disorienting as any death.
Life that has changed shape
Loss of health, a pregnancy, a job, a home or a future you had counted on can leave you quietly grieving.
Grief you cannot name
Sometimes the ache has no single event behind it, only the sense that something important has slipped away.
About Christina
The counsellor behind Soul Counselling.
Soul Counselling was founded in 2016 by Christina Feyes, a counsellor with training across psychology, social work and human services and more than ten years of experience walking beside people through loss. She works with clients right across Australia by video and phone, and has written a book about death and loss, Realizing Death, drawn from years of sitting with grief.
Christina brings solid clinical knowledge together with grounded, down-to-earth counselling and a gentle intuitive sensitivity. That means she can hold the practical side of what you are facing while also making room for the deeper emotional and spiritual layers of grief that often go unspoken.
Common questions
Before you book.
If your question is not here, the free 15-minute assessment is the easiest way to ask it.
Is grief counselling expensive?
We do not list prices here, because the first step costs you nothing. You can begin with a free 15-minute assessment, with no card details and no obligation, simply a chance to talk and see if it feels right. There is genuinely nothing to lose by starting there. If you decide to continue afterwards, we can talk through the details together, gently and without any pressure, once you know it feels like the right fit for you.
Do I need a referral or a diagnosis to start?
No. You do not need a GP referral, a mental health plan or any kind of diagnosis to reach out. Grief is not an illness, and you do not have to prove that your loss is serious enough. If you are hurting, that is reason enough to make contact. You can simply book the free 15-minute assessment and we will take it gently from there, at whatever pace feels manageable for you.
Are sessions online, or is there a Darwin clinic I can visit?
There is no Soul Counselling clinic in Darwin. All support for Territory clients is offered online by video and by phone, which means you can be anywhere, from the Darwin CBD or Palmerston to Casuarina, Nightcliff or a community further out across the Top End. Many people find it easier to grieve openly from their own lounge room, without a drive across town or a wait in an unfamiliar waiting room.
Is it too late if my loss was years ago?
Not at all. Grief has no expiry date, and it is very common for it to resurface long after everyone else seems to have moved on. An anniversary, a song, a smell or a quiet season can bring it flooding back years later. You are welcome here whether your loss was last week or a decade ago. Nothing about reaching out now means you left it too long or that your grief is out of date.
Can you help if my family is interstate or overseas, or I could not travel home for the funeral?
Yes, and this is one of the most common and painful experiences we hear in the Top End. Being unable to get home in time for a death or funeral, or grieving while your family is far away, can leave a heavy, unfinished feeling. In sessions we make room for that missed goodbye and the distance, and we find gentle ways for you to grieve and to feel connected, even when you could not be there in person.
Can online counselling really help from a remote community?
It can. As long as you have a phone line or an internet connection, we can meet, and phone sessions work well when the connection is patchy. Online support means you do not have to travel long distances or leave your community to be heard. For many people in remote parts of the Territory, being able to speak with someone from a familiar, safe place makes it easier to open up about a loss they may have been carrying quietly for a long time.
I do not know where to start. Is that okay?
Completely okay, and very normal. Grief can leave you foggy, exhausted and unsure of what you even need. You do not have to arrive with the right words or a clear plan. The free 15-minute assessment exists precisely for this, a low-pressure first conversation where you can say as little or as much as you like. Christina will help you make sense of where you are, and there is no expectation to commit to anything.
What if I am in crisis right now?
Counselling is not a crisis or emergency service, and sessions are not always immediate, so please reach out for urgent help if you need it. If life is in danger, call 000. For support any time, call Lifeline on 13 11 14, or GriefLine on 1300 845 745 for grief-specific support. If you would value culturally safe support, 13YARN is available on 13 92 76. These lines are there for you around the clock, and you deserve to be safe and supported while you wait to be seen.
When you are ready, we can begin gently
Start with a free 15-minute assessment, no card and no obligation, just a quiet chance to see whether this feels like the right support for you.
Book your free 15-minute assessment →Prefer to talk first? Call 0479 144 561
Grief support across Darwin
Grief in the Top End, far from where the rest of your life used to be
Darwin is the most remote capital in the country, thousands of kilometres from most of Australia, and grief here is often carried a long way from family. Many people cannot get back interstate or overseas in time for a death or funeral, and that missed goodbye can leave its own ache. The build-up and wet season heat, the cabin fever and the thin spread of local services can all make loss feel heavier and lonelier than it should.
- People in the Darwin CBD, Palmerston or the northern suburbs grieving with most of their family somewhere else.
- Defence members and their partners posted to Robertson Barracks, far from home and from familiar support.
- Fly-in, fly-out and transient workers who lost someone while stationed in the Top End.
- Anyone in a remote community who would rather not sit in a waiting room to talk about their loss.
Sessions are held online and by phone across Darwin and all of Australia. You can also explore all Darwin counselling services.
Support that reaches across the Top End
Care that comes to you, wherever you are grieving
The Territory is home to a large Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, and grief is often held through Sorry Business, with its own cultural practices and responsibilities. We do not claim any cultural expertise and would never speak for First Nations people, and we warmly note that culturally safe, Aboriginal-led grief support exists, and that 13YARN (13 92 76) offers culturally safe support any time.
Christina is a qualified counsellor, not a psychologist, and she does not diagnose or prescribe. What she offers is steady, gentle company in your grief, on your terms. Sessions are online and by phone, grief is allowed to take as long as it takes, and there is never any pressure to be over it.