Please contact the below services if you feel you could use some support (click on the organisation’s name to access their website).

Grief Support Organisations

• Griefline

  Griefline offers free and confidential support:

  • Call the Griefline Helpline: 1300 845 745 (8am–8pm, 7 days)
  • Join our Online Forums for peer support

• Grief Australia

  Counselling, support groups, and the MyGrief app.

• New Mornings Grief Support Groups (Tas)

• Solace Australia provides support for people who have lost their partner.

• For those grieving a baby or child:

  • Bears of Hope
  • Red Nose Grief & Loss
  • The Compassionate Friends Australia

• For children & young people experiencing grief:

  • ReachOut
  • Mackillop Seasons
  • Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma Grief and Loss Network
  • National Centre for Childhood Grief
  • Feel The Magic + Camp Magic
  • Lionheart Camp for kids

• For ecological grief:

  • Coping With Climate Change Distress - Several resources around grief & climate change from Australian Psychological Society
  • Good Grief Network - a peer support non-profit, serving individuals and communities experiencing eco-distress and collective trauma from social and ecological injustices, to build collective resilience transforming emotional overwhelm into meaningful action.

Grief Professionals & Resources

• Palliative Care Tasmania have released several beautiful books about navigating grief, which you can find here.
• Samantha Rennie is a grief educator in Australia offering various services including grief coaching.
• The Dark Woods of Grief online courses & support groups, podcast, and more with Josea Tamira Crossley (Canada)
• Return from the Underworld course
• Grief support groups (online)
• The Wild Edge of Sorrow - book by Francis Weller
• Tara Brach - Talks & resources on grief
• Good Mourning podcast & more (Aus based)
• Griefcast podcast

Mental Health Support Services

• Lifeline Tasmania
• Beyond Blue
• Lifeline Australia
• Mental Health Helpline Tasmania - 1800 332 388
• Headspace for young people
• Head to Health a digital mental health gateway for online and phone mental health services.
• STANDBY For those impacted by suicide
• MensLine Australia
• Embrace Multicultural Mental Health
• 13YARN For First Nations
• QLIFE For LGBTQIA+
• Kids Helpline
• List of suicide & crisis hotlines worldwide

Please feel free to email me at [email protected] if you have any questions, or if you have a resource to suggest for this list!

Further related resources:

• Die Wise: Book by Stephen Jenkinson
• Picnic Among Friends “Picnic Among Friends is a day to gather in simple community to pay our respects to loved ones who have died. We have created this website to support and encourage other individuals and communities to host their own Picnic Among Friends. We show you how to get started, tips on how to create a beautiful and safe space for people to come, suggestions on how the event might run, and ways to promote the event.”