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An action-based, powerful, directed approach to healing from life’s deepest heartbreaks.
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We provide grief and loss training, keynotes, and workshops for organisations around Australasia.
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Grief Recovery Method teaches individuals and therapists to support clients as they overcome grief.
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Learn the only evidence-based approach to move beyond death, divorce and other losses in your life.
You Don’t Have To Bear
The Pain Of Loss Forever
Grief is the normal and natural reaction to loss — whether that loss was caused by a death, the end of a relationship, loss of employment, or one of the significant life events that invoke this strong and overwhelming emotion.
The Grief Recovery Method is an action plan; a series of small steps that lead to the completion of the unresolved communication that is linked to the loss.
If you are struggling to move beyond the pain of grief or want to provide clients with a strategy to overcome a significant loss, you will find the solutions through our services. Book a call to find out more.
OUR STORY
Grief Recovery Institute of Australasia is an extension of a global program.
Our evidence-based, sequential method was developed to help people overcome grief.
As a result of our training, people describe having a “weight lifted from their shoulders” and a renewed ability to enjoy their life.
STERBs: The Coping Habits That Quietly Delay Recovery
Grief is one of the most universal human experiences, and yet grieving is often one of the loneliest.
Everyone eventually loses someone or something significant. And yet, once the funeral, the settlement or the initial shock has passed, the world around a griever tends to move on far faster than the griever does.
This is the grief loss paradox. Something almost everyone will experience becomes something very few people feel they can talk about honestly, for very long.
Friends check in for a week or two, then quietly stop asking. Colleagues expect a return to normal function long before grief has actually resolved. The griever is often left carrying something enormous, largely alone, precisely because grief is so common that everyone assumes someone else is checking in.
How Grief Support Has Evolved
For a long time, grief support meant waiting. Give it time, people were told, and the pain would fade on its own.
That approach has not aged well. Time alone does not complete unresolved grief. It simply allows unresolved grief to sit quietly underneath a person's daily life, sometimes for years.
The shift towards action-based recovery reframes grief entirely. Rather than a wound that simply needs time, grief is treated as something with real, learnable actions that lead to genuine completion, not just distraction or endurance.
This is a significant shift, because it gives grievers something time alone never could: a way to actively move through pain, rather than simply waiting for it to become bearable.
The Grief Recovery Method Action Plan:
How Recovery Actually Happens
The Grief Recovery Method is a structured, action-based process that helps a griever complete their relationship with a specific loss.
Completion does not mean forgetting, and it does not mean the relationship or loss stops mattering. It means being able to remember the whole relationship honestly, the good and the difficult parts both, without being overwhelmed by unresolved pain each time.
The Action Plan typically helps a griever work through:
Unspoken words, things they wish they had said, or wish they had not said
Unfulfilled hopes, dreams and expectations tied to the relationship or loss
Both the positive and the painful parts of the relationship, since most relationships include both
This is meaningfully different from simply "getting over it" or "moving on." It is a guided, structured way of finishing what was left unfinished, so grief no longer sits quietly underneath everyday life.
Supporting Someone Who Is Grieving
If someone you care about is grieving, you do not need the perfect words. You need to avoid the unhelpful patterns most of us were taught by default.
More helpful approaches include:
Acknowledging the loss directly, rather than avoiding the topic altogether
Asking open questions like "Do you want to talk about it, or would you rather I just sit with you?"
Continuing to check in well after the first few weeks, when most other support has quietly stopped
Avoiding comparisons to your own losses, even when well-intentioned
Letting them feel however they feel, without rushing them towards "moving on"
Less helpful, even if well-meaning, approaches include:
"Everything happens for a reason"
"They're in a better place now"
"At least you still have..."
"You need to stay strong"
"It's time to move on"
Presence, consistency and honesty tend to help far more than any perfectly worded sentence.
Training & Certification
Learn a step-by-step framework to help your clients overcome grief and loss.
Grief Recovery Program
Work through an action and evidence-based program to move on from grief.
Helping Children with Loss
Equip your team to help their clients transition beyond feelings of despair.
Resources
Access helpful publications written for children, adults and therapists.
Download Guide for Loss
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TESTIMONIALS
Hear from Australasianss who have participated in the Grief Recovery Method training.
Loss of a Child
Grieving the Loss of a Child
Grieving the Loss of Family
Grief from Childhood
Why Choose Grief Recovery Method?
A unique program that is more than counselling
46-Year History
Grief Recovery Method has been shared for almost 50 years.
Evidence-Based
You won’t find any other evidence-based grief recovery method training.
Step-by-Step Program
Go beyond understanding and take action to move beyond the pain of loss.
Improve Your Therapeutic Services
Grief Recovery Method has been shared for almost 50 years.
Caring, Authentic
Team
You won’t find any other evidence-based grief recovery method training.
Learn to Live
Go beyond understanding and take action to move beyond the pain of loss.
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