Dr Monique O’Connor
GRIEF & BEREAVEMENT SPECIALIST
Transcend pain. Peaceful growth. Enduring love.
Welcome
I am a Consultant Psychiatrist with expertise in grief following bereavement.
This website is aimed at health professionals interested in grief and care of the bereaved.
I provide care for the bereaved and assist health professionals deliver optimal grief care.
The bereaved can access grief related resources and self-help educational courses at The Grief Sherpa.
‘Grief is the form love takes after someone we love dies’
Dr Kathy Shear
Mission
- Provide transformative care for the bereaved
- Promote community grief & bereavement literacy
- Provide expert grief and bereavement resources for health care professionals
- Promote development of specialised services for support & treatment of the bereaved with difficult grief
- Promote affordable access to quality grief therapy and resources
I provide:
- Individual psychotherapy – Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy – via telehealth
- Medicolegal assessment of grief and Prolonged Grief Disorder
- Expert assessment of grief with provision of treatment recommendations
- Self-help educational courses for the bereaved at The Grief Sherpa
Grief
Grief is the natural response to loss following bereavement
Grief is a normal and common human experience
Grief is complex and painful
Nature enables us to heal and adapt to the death of a loved one over time
Grief changes but is permanent because our love for the person who died is permanent
Prolonged Grief
Prolonged Grief Disorder in a mental health condition that arises if grief does not evolve and attenuate over time. Yearning, missing the person, disbelief about the death and other significant emotional difficulties related to the death persist indefinitely after a bereavement in those with Prolonged Grief Disorder. Prolonged Grief Disorder is treated by specialised psychotherapy.
Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy
Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy is the evidence-based psychotherapy developed and researched by Dr Kathy Shear specifically for treatment of Prolonged Grief Disorder. For further information on Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy, please click here.
‘No day shall erase you from the memory of time’
Virgil