Mary Klasen

Mary is a psychologist with considerable experience of caring for women and families, before, during and after their experience of perinatal loss. She has engaged with women antenatally and cared for parents with a baby (or babies) in an Intensive Care Unit or Special Care Nursery. Mary has worked in public hospitals with medical, midwifery and allied health staff. 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 research and experience inform her bereavement counselling with all forms of loss. Mary brings warmth, genuine curiosity, and compassion, to ensure people feel safe, respected, grounded, and empowered.