Saskia Heydon

Specialised Counselling for Grief & Trauma

About me

I am a Counsellor with 10 years experience working in client facing roles within community support, health, and therapeutic jurisprudence. I am passionate about creating a more healed version of society and I support this vision by providing a space for people to be heard and understood.

Working with grief, trauma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) requires a deep acknowledgement of lived experience and an ability to witness strong emotions, feelings, and thoughts. I promote a strengths-based, resilience building approach to trauma recovery with a focus on mindfulness-based therapies and self-motivated healing. 

My other role has me supporting forensic clients; working through childhood adversities, addiction, socioeconomic disadvantage and serious mental illness. This work continues to inspire me, to understand how people confront life, and to create a strong container which holds space for healing. 

All trauma is grief. Acknowledging this creates room for your grief to show itself, to be heard, and to be healed. This acknowledgement allows you to find agency in your trauma, to be able to honour your loss and commence the releasing of grief. We will all experience some form of grief within our lifetime. Emphasising kindness and responsivity, I guide clients to find more space in their mind and spirit; to calm the effects of grief and bring forth the strength and courage to keep moving forward.

You can evolve your sorrow into something beautiful, sacred, and worthy of acceptance.

The Process

Qualifications

  • PACFA Certified Practicing Counsellor (15743)

  • Master of Counselling & Psychotherapy, ACAP University

  • Master of Justice & Criminology, RMIT University

  • Bachelor of Psychology & Criminology, RMIT University

  • Diploma of Health Science (Naturopathy), Endeavour College

  • Accredited Mental Health First Aider (MHFAid)