Southern Highlands Bereavement Care Service

The Southern Highlands Bereavement Care Service offers counselling to individuals, families, teenagers and children who are experiencing bereavement through the death of a loved one.

The Service also provides counselling to anyone experiencing ambiguous loss; complicated loss; traumatic loss; and life changes or transitions which are accompanied by feelings of grief and loss.

Support is offered to those who are preparing for their own death and to family and friends supporting their loved ones during this time.

Clients are offered a sliding scale of fees based on household income. For anyone experiencing financial hardship, fees can be negotiated and in some cases waived.

Our Services

Counselling

Face to face individual and family counselling is provided at Bowral in the old hospital cottage buildings.

Tele-counselling

Phone and Zoom counselling sessions can be arranged to suit individual client needs.

Support Groups

Groups are held in response to the needs within our community at any given time.

Library

Our office has an extensive range of books and other resources focussed on Grief and Loss, available for clients to borrow.

Home Visits

Whilst counselling is generally provided in our office, home visits are possible in some circumstances.

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing

Our counsellors are available to attend workplaces to support staff groups who have experienced a traumatic event.

Community Education

Specific talks and workshops can be tailored for schools, organisations and groups. Our counsellors are trained to deliver “Seasons for Growth” workshops to primary and secondary school children.

Youth Grief Booklet

Our booklet “I Can do it but it’s Still Hard” was created in response to a need in the community for information about loss, grief and transition for young people aged 12 to 25.