Reweave your story
Sometimes life can feel messy and uncertain. I am an experienced counsellor who supports people to navigate complex and challenging life transitions.
You can feel that something is shifting. You're in-between and unsure of how to move forward. It can help to tell your story to a compassionate witness, to hear a different perspective or try a new strategy. I work compassionately and collaboratively with clients to establish a space of trust to explore emotional patterns and the stories we each craft about our place and belonging in the world. I sit with you in the space between chapters and help you craft a way forward with more insight, clarity and hope.
As an integrative and holistic practitioner, my personalised approach draws from a variety of modalities including existential psychotherapy, attachment styles, family systems, somatic and eco therapy.
Areas of Focus
Motherhood, Menopause and Ageing
These are powerful phases of transition and change. For some they are times of powerful transformation but for others they are times of grief and anxiety. I work with women of all ages whose identities and relationships may be shifting, who are meeting their losses and regrets and revisiting their hopes.
Death and Mortality
I work with people who may be struggling with existential anxieties around their own death or the loss of loved ones through the exploration of personal and cultural stories around mortality.
In my work as a death doula, I support individuals who have had a life-limiting or palliative diagnosis or who are approaching the end of a long life to find peace with their mortality. I facilitate open conversations about death, build literacy around end of life choices and care, assist in the development of end of life plans, and support family and community to care for their dying and their dead.
Grief
Grief takes many forms. I support the bereaved mourning the death of loved ones but also the grief we may experience with the ruptures in our relationships to others, to our relationship to our bodies in the face of illness and injury or the loss of identity with the loss of a job, of our role as partner or parent. We may grieve our wounds and the paths not taken. Our culture doesn’t tend to support us well in grief, or with endings of any kind and we often need a safe place to express it.
Workshops
I am an experienced group facilitator and offer women's circles and workshops on menopause and eldering. I also facilitate small group and family sessions around end of life care and planning.
Reach out for a free 15 minute chat to see if I might be the right person to support you.
Individual counselling (50 mins) $120
in-person and online
Planning guidance for end of life care $120 (1 hr) $250 (3hrs)
available to individuals and small family groups
Home, hospital or hospice visits
initial $275 and continuing $150 per hour
Linda Ruff
Registered Counsellor
Australian Counselling Association
