Professional Grief Counselling
with Dr Cory Middleton, Psychologist.
Mental Health Care Plans Available
Mental Health Care Plans Available
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Professional Grief Counselling
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Practical Guidance for Terminal Conditions
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Rebuild Life After Death
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Navigate Other's Reactions to Death
“To bring grief into focus is not self-destructive or harmful, it is courageous and life-giving.”
— Dr Cory Middleton
Why Access Grief Counselling?
Experiencing loss can bring up a range of emotions. Although grief can be very painful and at times intolerable, you don’t have to suffer in silence or in isolation. It’s often challenging speaking to family and friends who may carry their own biases and are also experiencing the loss in their own way. Seeking professional, non-biased skilled grief counselling can allow you the time and space to talk about what needs talking about.
Grief is personal. It is something that you are likely to experience differently from others, even differently from those in your same family. Grief can be experienced after the death of a family member, friend, colleague and of course a pet. Grief can equally be experienced relating to the loss of a significant relationship (e.g. the end of a marriage or the breakdown of a relationship with a life-long friend). Grief may or may not come with trauma. Dr Cory Middleton creates a safe space for you to share your experience of grief, to process and work with these feelings, so that you feel confident in engaging positively with the rest of your life.
It’s natural to always miss a person, yet with professional support and guidance, people do build healthy lives around their grief and beyond loss.
Invest in Professional Grief Counselling
60-minute session
$245
If eligible, Medicare will rebate $93.35 of this fee
90-minute session
$343
FAQs
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Dr Cory Middleton provides professional grief counselling in-person at our Sydney CBD office (185 Elizabeth Street, Sydney). Dr Cory also provides professional ONLINE counselling for those who find it hard to physically get into the office.
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Grief counselling can be booked weekly, fortnightly, monthly or adhoc. The frequency is largely guided by your specific bereavement needs.
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Dr Cory Middleton is a registered Psychologist, professionally bound by rules of confidentiality. All grief counselling (whether in-person, online or by email/phone) will be treated as confidential unless otherwise agreed.
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Grief counselling typically continues until the client feels that they are able to cope with a respect their grief, whilst building a healthy life around that experience. Grief counselling helps you navigate so many changes that come with this new ‘normal’. The goal of grief counselling is to have a trained professional listen, understand and guide you through your experience of grief and bereavement.
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It is a common myth to expect that people ‘get over’ grief. The reality is that grief can at times feel overwhelming and held tightly in focus throughout every minute. It’s not about “getting over it” but rather finding ways to respect grief as one component of many components in your life. You can feel grief and still build moments of joy and fulfilment in other areas. When you think of it, grief is still there, yet so are a range of other parts of your life.
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The experience of grief is different for everyone. At times grief can be debilitating, and it may be hard to make sense of what has happened. the circumstances surrounding grief can also amplify the experience - for example when their is trauma involved, complex relationships, or even the significance of that persons role had in your life. Professional Psychology Counselling helps you unpack the parts of you that matter in your experience of grief.
“How will I survive this pain”
The experience of grief can at times feel intense and overwhelming. It can feel like you have deep feelings of sadness that are hard to talk to others about.
Working with grief is not about moving on and forgetting. Rather, effective grief work helps you foster an enduring positive connection with the deceased, whilst slowly re-engaging in other aspects of life.
Seek wisdom in understanding how we grieve
Find fresh ideas on how we grieve and continue to love those who die.
Catch your breath in grief. Learn about enduring attachment and ways to relearn the world.
Get help for grief.
Dr Cory Middleton provides professional psychological support for individuals experiencing all kinds of grief.
Get in contact today and we will endeavour to get back to you quickly for an initial call. Many people have questions about grief counselling, and we’d be more than happy to talk you through what to expect.
You may also be eligible for a Mental Health Care Plans (this is a rebate Medicare Australia provides per session for significant mood-disturbances). Check with your GP to enquire about a referral to Dr Cory Middleton for your grief work.
Where is our Office?
We are directly next to Hyde Park in the centre of Sydney. A short walk away from Town Hall or St James train stations. The Sydney Metro Station Gadigal station is very close.
If taking a bus, there are many convenient bus locations on Elizabeth street opposite our building. We are a short walk away from Queen Victoria Building bus station too.
Our physical address is Suite 804, 185 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, NSW.