Grief Counselling Victoria
Don’t run away from grief, o soul.
Look for the remedy inside the pain because the rose came from the thorn and the ruby came from a stone. - Jelaluddin Rumi
Arian Young, a holistic-spiritual counsellor, ritualist and facilitator in grief’s love and praise.
Grief rituals were born from a need to attend and heal. Shortly after my last parent died in 2016, a misguided DNA test changed everything. Fearing it would be the undoing of me, it had been the making of me.
As your grief counsellor, I am qualified in Soul Centred Counselling and Traditional Chinese Medicine with over thirty-five years of experience exploring intention, discovery and consequence, while remaining curious about what I am here to do.
An engaged, former Buddhist nun, I will help you explore unprocessed grief that crafts outcomes of clarity, acceptance and transformative insight, using tools from Spiritual Counselling, Mindfulness, Meditation and Ancestral history to enable vital, conscious gratitude to help you live and love more deeply. I have apprenticed myself to purposely honing the skills of grief and its twin, love - to help you navigate the wild rapids of sorrow, heartbreak and its immense beauty in a troubled, complex and rapidly, changing world.
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
- Kahil Gibran
Holistic Counselling
In these troubled times how can unprocessed grief find its way to love with grief counselling?
Learn to bring presence and beauty as you embrace conscious sorrow.
Learn how to gently mid-wife grief to enable creation, connection and belonging with grief rituals.
How could you feel resourced and held while learning to mourn with grief counselling? Grief scholar, Francis Weller suggests grief is a visitation that keeps the heart fluid, soft and open. In our exhaustion and isolation, what if we greeted and welcomed the learning of grief rituals with reverence and curiosity in place of contempt and avoidance?
Universally, grief is a rich, illuminating wonder. It merely highlights the price we pay for loving someone or something deeply. To mourn the very thing we adored and prized after it’s gone shows our enormous capacity to grow and sustain love in all its faces.
Without some measure of intimacy with grief, our capacity to be with any other emotion or experience in our life is greatly compromised.
"On my visit to Africa I remarked to one woman that she had a lot of joy. Her response stunned me with the comment, “That’s because I cry a lot. " It was a very un-western sentiment. It wasn’t "that’s because l shop a lot, or work a lot, or keep myself busy.” - Francis Weller.
Our Services
As a holistic counsellor, former Buddhist nun, mindfulness meditation teacher and grief counsellor, Arian has apprenticed herself to purposely honing the skills of grief, love and praise.
Grief is love’s devotion to life.
Grief and love are twins joined at the hip.
Grief is praise for the very thing that has left.
Grief is a mystery, an intelligence, a divinity.
Grief is all the unmet dreams that could have been.
Grief is humbling, it asks for mercy, to pause, to listen, to gather.
Grief shapes and softens, irrevocably.
Grief is food that which nourishes and sustains.
Grief is how you love all those things in life that end.
- © Arian Young
"Grief and praise are renters whose landlord is grief. Because they are best friends both grief and love live in the same building but in opposite quarters: in the left and right chambers of loves great thumping house called the heart."
- Martin Prechtel
Our Services
What I Specialize In
Reset Your Grief, Love and Beauty Compass
Establish Conscious Creative Ritual
Adopt a Realistic Approach to Loss, Connection and Belonging.
Let Grief Awaken Awe, Imagination and a Deep Love for Life
Rituals for Loss, Celebration and Change