Psychologist - Grief and Loss
Mary Klasen
Master of Psychology - Clinical Psychology, B. Arts (Honours) Psychology,
B. Theology, Post Grad Dip of Education
Areas I work in
Therapeutic modalities I work in
Mary is a registered psychologist with considerable experience of caring for women and families, before, during and after their experience of perinatal loss. In addition, she has engaged with women antenatally and cared for parents with a baby (or babies) in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit or Special Care Nursery – times filled with mixed emotions. Mary has worked in public maternity hospitals with medical, midwifery and allied health practitioners.
Mary uses a person-centred approach to enable people to contextualise their experience, identify strengths, develop skills, build their narrative, and to live with meaning and purpose. She works from an integrative therapeutic framework, drawing on principles of existential, psychodynamic, narrative, interpersonal, and self-compassion approaches.
Her comprehensive understanding of bereavement counselling informs her engagement with people who are grieving any form of loss. Mary brings warmth, genuine curiosity, and deep compassion, to ensure that people feel safe, respected, grounded, and empowered.
Areas of work:
Grief and bereavement, miscarriage, termination, infant loss, birth trauma, historical trauma, parenting a baby in NICU or Special Care Nursey, anxiety with pregnancy, and existential concerns.
Modalities:
Existential Psychology, Narrative Therapy, Interpersonal Psychology, Psychodynamic Theory, Self Compassion, and Trauma Informed Care.
