Linda is a loss, grief and bereavement counsellor, educator, supervisor and consultant in Melbourne, Australia who has worked in the field of loss and grief for 30 years. She is highly regarded in the field of loss and grief. Linda is also a photographer who has had three exhibitions in Melbourne. Linda curated the “A Hidden Wholeness: The Zen Photography of Thomas Merton” from the Collections of the Thomas Merton Center at Ballarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky USA in 2013.

 

Linda works in Private Practice part time and is currently a counsellor at Carers Victoria. She worked previously for six years as the manager of Client Support Services in a Melbourne Palliative Care service.  Linda held a position as Executive Officer at the Critical Incident Stress Management Foundation Australia (now CIMA) up until July 2010.

 

Linda was a foundation member of the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Support organisation (SANDS Victoria), and was one of two consultants employed to establish the Centre for Grief Education (now Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement)and she worked at the Centre for 5 years as the Coordinator of Education and Training.

 

Linda worked on the establishment of Support After Suicide and provided counselling to children, young people and adults bereaved through suicide as well as facilitating suicide bereavement group work and education. She established a nurse support program in a rural Hospital in Victoria and provided support in group and individual sessions for 13 years.

 

Linda has worked as an educator and trainer for many organisations including Victoria Police and Life Line Australia, various Hospitals, Universities and in community health, welfare and education settings.  Her lecture areas include – grief and bereavement, sudden and traumatic death, suicide bereavement, miscarriage, perinatal death, children and adolescents and grief and bereavement, disability, parental separation and divorce and compassion fatigue and burnout and anticipatory grief. She travelled to work in Japan annually for 12 years providing lectures and workshops.

 

Linda is the author of five publications relating to the areas of grief, loss, bereavement and illness. See the Publications Page for more information.