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Grief & Loss Therapy in Kew
Grief rarely follows the shape people expect of it. There's no fixed timeline it should keep to, no clean sequence of stages to move through and be done with. It can resurface unexpectedly, years after a loss, or barely surface at all, showing up instead as fatigue, irritability, or a low hum of numbness that's hard to trace back to its source.
At KYND Psychology, therapy for grief and loss doesn't treat mourning as a problem to be resolved quickly. Loss isn't only about death, though it often is. It can be the loss of a relationship, a role, a version of the future that was quietly assumed and then taken away, or a version of yourself that existed before something changed. Each kind of loss asks something different of the person carrying it.
Working from a psychoanalytic foundation, and drawing on evidence-based approaches where they serve the person in front of me, I offer a space where grief can be given the time and attention it actually needs, without pressure to feel better on any particular schedule. This isn't about moving on. It's about finding a way to carry what's been lost, always in service of the person, never the protocol.
Why Grief Isn't Something to Resolve
Freud initially distinguished grief from melancholia by suggesting that mourning eventually completes itself, while melancholia becomes stuck. Later psychoanalytic thinking complicated this, recognising that most grief doesn't fully resolve so much as it changes shape over time, from something overwhelming to something that can be lived alongside. Understanding why a particular loss remains stuck, rather than expecting it to simply fade, is often where this work begins.
What Sessions Look Like
Early sessions focus on understanding what has been lost and what that loss has meant, which is rarely as straightforward as it first appears. From there, therapy moves at a pace shaped by what the grief itself seems to need, with no expectation of arriving at closure by a set point.
Sessions are available for adults and young adults at our practice in Kew. Many clients travel from Hawthorn, Camberwell, Balwyn, and Richmond for a therapeutic approach that treats them as a whole person rather than a diagnosis. Clinical psychology offers structure and grounding, psychoanalytic thinking offers depth and meaning, and my training in both allows sessions to move between practical support for the present and a slower exploration of what this loss has touched.