Workshop Overview  

This one‑day training is designed for professionals who support people following a pregnancy termination—whether by choice, medical necessity, or due to complex personal circumstances. The workshop is trauma‑aware, inclusive, and grounded in best‑practice principles for grief‑informed care.

What You’ll Learn

• The wide range of emotional responses that may follow a pregnancy termination, including grief, relief, ambivalence, and mixed or conflicting feelings.
• The ways stigma, silence, cultural influences, and personal context shape how people experience and express termination‑related grief.
• Compassionate, trauma‑informed approaches to supporting clients without judgement.
• Practical tools for assessment, gentle inquiry, reflective listening, and recognising when referral is appropriate.
• Strategies for maintaining practitioner wellbeing, healthy boundaries, and ethical practice.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify the emotional, psychological, and relational complexities surrounding pregnancy termination‑related grief.
• Offer sensitive, inclusive, and confident support using trauma‑informed principles.
• Use language and communication approaches that validate and honour each person’s unique experience.
• Apply practical tools to create safe, ethical, and supportive environments for clients and recognise when additional support is required.

Facilitator/Counsellor: Mandy Cox 

Dip. Miss.; CPE; Spiritual Director (WellSpring, Vic); B.Min; M.Couns; Grad Cert Supervision.

Mandy is a registered clinical Counsellor and Supervisor and has worked in the field of grief and loss for 20 years, working in a range of counselling roles, including palliative care, coronial counselling, maternal loss, victims of violent crime, and co-founded Canberra Grief Centre.  Mandy also facilitates workshops and retreats focussing on grief, loss and change.

About the Presenter

Mandy Cox 

Dip. Miss.; CPE; Spiritual Director (WellSpring, Vic); B.Min; M.Couns; Grad Cert Supervision.

Mandy is a registered clinical Counsellor and Supervisor and has worked in the field of grief and loss for 20 years, working in a range of counselling roles, including palliative care, coronial counselling, maternal loss, victims of violent crime, and co-founded Canberra Grief Centre.  Mandy also facilitates workshops and retreats focussing on grief, loss and change.

For more information contact:

NALAG Centre for Loss & Grief
Email: info@nalag.org.au
Phone: 02 6882 9222