Bereavement and death
The loss of a partner, parent, child, sibling, friend or beloved companion animal, whether it happened last week or many years ago.
Grief Counselling Sydney
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Soul Counselling · Grief Support · Sydney
A quiet place to grieve, even when Sydney never slows down
When someone or something you loved is gone, the whole city can feel like it is rushing past your loss. From the Inner West to the Northern Beaches, Parramatta to the Sutherland Shire, Soul Counselling offers gentle grief support for bereavement, the end of a relationship, and life changes that reshape everything. Sessions are online and by phone.
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For most people, grief slowly softens over months and years when there is enough support, room and understanding around them, yet roughly one in ten bereaved people carry a prolonged, stuck grief that eases far more gently alongside professional help. In the same period, the Australian Bureau of Statistics found that around 19.5 per cent of people aged 16 to 85 in New South Wales, close to one in five, lived with a mental disorder in a single twelve-month window, so struggling after a loss here is far more common than the quiet you see on the train ever suggests.
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 showing up for you
- You keep functioning and answering emails, then a song, a street or a smell undoes you without warning.
- The tears will not come, or they will not stop, and both leave you wondering if you are doing grief wrong.
- Sleep is broken, your body aches, and getting through a normal Sydney workday takes everything you have.
- People have quietly moved on and expect you to have too, so you have learned to say you are fine.
- You no longer recognise who you are without them, and the future you had pictured has gone strangely blank.
In a city this large and this fast, it is easy to feel invisible in your loss, as though there is simply no time or permission to stop and grieve. There is here.
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 space, a steady witness and a sense of safety far more than it needs fixing. Christina will never hurry you toward being over it, and there is no timeline you are failing to meet.
Space to feel
You bring whatever is real that day, the numbness, the anger, the guilt or the longing, and it is met without judgement or a rush to reframe it.
A steady witness
So much grief is carried alone and unspoken. Here your person and your loss can be named, remembered and honoured out loud with someone who stays present.
Your own pace
Some weeks you want to talk for the whole hour and some weeks you barely have words, and both are completely welcome in this work.
Go deeper
Reading more before you reach out
This page can only say so much about something as vast as grief. If you would like a deeper, unhurried look at how loss moves through us and what gentle support can look like, Christina has written more in the Soul Counselling grief journal. There is no pressure to book anything first.
Read the grief counselling blogRead at your own pace, in your own time.
What we can work through
Common grief themes we sit with
Grief wears many shapes, and every one of these is valid enough to bring to a session.
Anticipatory grief
The heavy, unspoken grieving that begins while a loved one is still here but fading through illness, dementia or age.
Relationship and family loss
The end of a marriage, a friendship or an estrangement, where the person is still alive yet the bond you knew is gone.
Loss of identity and direction
Grief for a life, a home, a health, a role or a future you expected, and the disorientation of not knowing who you are now.
About Christina
The counsellor behind Soul Counselling.
Christina Feyes founded Soul Counselling in 2016 and has spent more than ten years walking alongside people through their hardest seasons. She is a counsellor with training in psychology, social work and human services, and she supports clients right across Australia by video and phone. Her own care around loss runs deep enough that she wrote a book about death and grief, Realizing Death.
What people often notice with Christina is that she holds two things at once. There is the grounded, clinical understanding of how grief affects the mind and body, and there is a warmer, more intuitive presence that makes room for the deeper emotional and spiritual questions loss can open. You are welcome to stay with the practical and the everyday, or to explore the bigger meanings, entirely as far as feels right for you.
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 in Sydney expensive?
There is no cost to find out whether this is right for you. Soul Counselling begins with a free 15-minute assessment, with no card details and no obligation, so you genuinely have nothing to lose by reaching out. It is simply a quiet conversation to see how you are and whether Christina feels like the right person to sit with your loss. You are never committing to anything by taking that first small step, and you can decide afterwards, in your own time, without any pressure at all.
Do I need a referral to start?
No referral is needed. You do not have to see a GP first or gather paperwork before you can be heard. You can reach out directly and book your free 15-minute assessment whenever you feel ready, whether that is today or in a few weeks. Grief does not wait for admin, and neither should your support. If you would rather talk it through first, you are welcome to call and simply ask any questions before deciding anything.
Are sessions online, and is there a Sydney clinic I can visit?
All sessions are held online by video or by phone, and there is no Soul Counselling clinic in Sydney. Christina’s only physical base is in Southport on the Gold Coast, and she supports Sydney clients everywhere from the Inner West to the Northern Beaches and out to Penrith and Liverpool through telehealth. Many people find that grieving from their own familiar space, with no commute across the city, actually makes it far easier to open up and feel safe.
It has been years since my loss. Is it too late to seek support?
It is never too late. Grief has no expiry date, and it is very common for loss to surface again years later, after an anniversary, a life change or something that quietly reopens it. You are not behind, and you have not failed by carrying it this long. Whatever the timeline, your grief is welcome here exactly as it is, and there is no such thing as coming to this work too early or too late.
Can you help if my family is interstate or overseas, or I could not attend the funeral?
Yes, and this is one of the most tender kinds of grief that comes up in a city like Sydney. Mourning someone from a distance, unable to travel home or be with the people who loved them too, can leave you feeling cut off from your own loss. Not being at the funeral can add a heavy layer of guilt or unfinished goodbye. In sessions there is room to grieve fully, to remember them out loud, and to find your own ways of honouring them from where you are.
I do not even know where to start. Is that okay?
That is completely okay, and you do not need to arrive with the right words or a tidy story. Many people come feeling numb, scattered or unsure what they are even feeling. You can start simply by saying that you are struggling, and Christina will gently help you find your way in from there. There is nothing you need to prepare, explain or justify. Turning up, however uncertain, is more than enough for a first conversation.
How many sessions will I need?
There is no set number, because grief is not a course you complete. Some people come for a few sessions during a particularly hard stretch, and others value ongoing support over a longer season of change. You are always in control of how often you come and for how long, and you can pause or stop whenever you need to. Christina will talk this through with you honestly rather than lock you into anything, so the support fits your life and your loss.
What if I am in crisis right now?
Counselling is not a crisis or emergency service, and if you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, please reach out for urgent help straight away. You can call Lifeline any time on 13 11 14, or 000 in an emergency. For grief support specifically, GriefLine can be reached on 1300 845 745. These services are there for the hardest moments, day or night, and Soul Counselling can be part of your gentler, ongoing support once you are safe.
When you are ready, there is a gentle first step
Start with a free 15-minute assessment, no card and no obligation, just a quiet chance to see whether this feels like the right kind of support for your grief.
Book your free 15-minute assessment →Prefer to talk first? Call 0479 144 561
Grief support across Sydney
Grieving in a city that rarely stops
Sydney is Australia’s largest and most expensive city, and the relentless cost of living and long working hours can leave almost no room to pause and feel a loss. It is easy to grieve in silence here, invisible among the crowds on the platform. Many people also moved to Sydney or migrated from overseas, and are mourning far from family, sometimes unable to travel home for a funeral or to be held by the people who knew their loved one.
- You are grieving quietly while holding down a demanding CBD or Western Sydney job and cannot let the wheels stop.
- You migrated or moved here and are mourning a parent or relative interstate or overseas, far from your family.
- You could not attend the funeral or say goodbye in person, and that ache has stayed with you.
- A long commute across a vast city makes regular in-person appointments feel impossible to sustain.
Sessions are held online and by phone across Sydney and all of Australia. You can also explore all Sydney counselling services.
No commute, no rushing
Grief at your own pace, without crossing the city
When you are already worn thin, the thought of driving from the Hills or the Shire to a clinic and finding parking can be enough to put support off entirely. Online counselling removes that hurdle. You can meet from your lounge room in Blacktown, a quiet corner in Bondi or a break in Parramatta, wherever you actually feel safe enough to let your guard down.
Christina is a qualified counsellor, not a psychologist, and she does not diagnose or prescribe. What she offers is steady, gentle companionship through grief that has no correct timeline. Sessions are online, the pace is always yours, and you will never be pushed to be over it or to have it neatly wrapped up.