IN PERSON IN FERNTREE GULLY, MELBOURNE & ONLINE WORLDWIDE
Shamanic Grief Tending
Grief can follow many kinds of endings––the death of someone you love, the loss of a relationship, a change in identity, or the future you thought you would have.
And there is no correct way to carry that loss. Shamanic grief tending holds a private spiritual space where your grief can be expressed and honoured without being hurried towards a resolution.
What Brings People to This Work
The loss or death of a loved one
The end of a marriage or significant relationship, or an important chapter
The loss of a job, career, purpose, identity, or ability
A major change in our way of life
Declining health or illness
Grief that is difficult to express around others
Children growing up and leaving home
Trauma we have endured and the ways it has shaped and impacted our lives
Complex grief due to estrangement and other complicated relationship dynamics
Dreams, hopes, and ideals for our lives
The grief or changes we didn’t choose, weren’t prepared for, or don’t know how to navigate
Desire for ritual or spiritual companionship
Your Shamanic Grief Tending Session
Your session begins with the loss you are carrying and what feels most important that day. There is no expectation to speak continuously, explain your grief, or experience a particular emotional release.
Kristy works with people who have encountered profound loss and provides a soft and sacred place for the soul to land whilst finding individual pathways of healing.
The session moves at your pace. You can speak, remain quiet, pause, or change direction depending on what you need. There is no right way to grieve. Every person’s grieving process is deeply individual. There is no formula, timeline, set of rules, or prescribed steps to follow.
Shamanic Grief Healing in Melbourne | Session Details
Kristy holds shamanic grief healing and spiritual grief support at her Ferntree Gully practice and online through Zoom.
Our grief asks us to slow down and listen. It asks to be held, heard, and witnessed––not fixed, rushed, judged, or made to disappear. When we allow ourselves to meet grief as it is, rather than how we think it should be, we can begin to develop a deeper relationship with our own experience.
This work is not about telling you how to grieve. It is about creating a safe and compassionate space where you can come exactly as you are, with whatever is present for you. You do not have to know where your grief is taking you; you may require a sacred space where you can be accompanied along the way.
This work does not replace bereavement counselling, crisis support, mental-health treatment or medical care.
A Shamanic Perspective
In many traditional cultures, grief was relational, communal, embodied, and ritualised. Rather than expecting a grieving person to quietly process their emotions on their own, mourning was something that required relational help.
The bereaved person wasn’t expected to “cope” alone. Grief had a place and a container. Many shamanic cultures had ceremonies, rituals, gatherings, songs, storytelling, and sacred places to tend to grief. The community helped carry what the individual couldn’t. This concept is quite profound, and why I run shamanic grief tending rituals.
Kristy approaches grief as an expression of the connection that remains after something or someone has been lost. Rather than treating it as a problem to overcome, she creates room for love, absence, memory, and spirit to exist together.
