Soulful Counselling & End-of-Life Support
Guidance and companionship through illness, cancer, and life’s final chapters.
Soulful Counselling & End-of-Life Support
Guidance and companionship through illness, cancer, and life’s final chapters.
InHeart Services
Holistic Counselling
End-Of-Life Death Doula Support
End-Of-Life Death Doula Support
I provide counselling for people facing life-altering diagnoses such as brain tumours, cancer, or those approaching the end of life, bringing presence, compassion and deep care. Based in Brisbane, I also offer online counselling across Australia, so you can access support wherever you are. My counselling approach honours the emotional and spiritual impact of illness, helping you feel truly seen and heard. I walk beside you with warmth and steadiness, supporting you to find meaning, clarity and connection in even the most tender and uncertain chapters of life.
End-Of-Life Death Doula Support
End-Of-Life Death Doula Support
End-Of-Life Death Doula Support
I offer gentle, grounded support for those nearing the end of life and their loved ones. this work is about creating space to breathe, to speak what matters, to prepare, reflect, grieve, and be witnessed in your truth. At the end of life, you deserve dignity, choice and care that honours your values and wishes. Together, we may explore advanced care planning, emotional and spiritual preparation, or legacy work that brings meaning to this chapter. You don't need to have it all figured out, you only need to arrive as you are, and I will meet you there with presence and tenderness.
Join My Online Support Group
End-Of-Life Death Doula Support
Join My Online Support Group
I offer a free, gentle space to feel supported, be seen, and feel less alone
if you're navigating meningiomas, brain tumours, or a cancer diagnosis. Whether you are in the early stages of watch and wait, undergoing treatment, recovering, or living in the quiet after, this private Facebook Group is here to hold you. It's a safe, compassionate space to breathe, connect, and share with others walking a similar path.
Inside, I offer gentle practices, self-care tools, reflections on recovery and resilience and reminders to return to care and self-love. You don't have to do this alone.
Welcome, I'm So Glad You're Here
Hi, I'm Astarea and I am here to help
Sometimes life cracks open in ways we didn’t expect.
A diagnosis. A quiet dread. A shift in your body, or your spirit, that you can’t quite name.
Moments where nothing feels solid anymore, not your breath, not your future, not even who you are.
If you’ve landed here, maybe you’re searching for something steady to hold onto.
Somewhere real. Somewhere kind.
Whatever brought you here, know this: you are not alone.
At In Heart Counselling, I offer more than a service.
I offer a sanctuary.
A gentle space of refuge and truth. A place where you can exhale.
Where nothing needs to be fixed, and everything is welcome, the fear, the sorrow, the silence, the longing.
Whether you’re navigating a brain tumour, living with cancer, facing chronic illness, or walking tenderly toward the end of life, your experience matters.
And it deserves to be met with presence, reverence, and care.
In a world that often rushes past pain and discomfort, I meet you right where you are, gently, honestly, without judgment.
Not to fix you, but to walk beside you.
To witness your truth.
To hold space for what’s real.
If you’re ready, I’m here.
A Personal Note from my Heart:
I know what it’s like for everything to change in an instant. To sit with a diagnosis that alters the course of your life. To feel the ground shift beneath you, while on the surface, everything appears the same.
I’ve walked that path, through a brain tumour diagnosis, through the uncertainty of cancer in my younger years, through the quiet ache of watch and wait. I know the fear, the disorientation, the unravelling. I also know the strength it takes to keep showing up.
These experiences didn’t just inform my work; they transformed how I listen, how I hold space, how I walk alongside, not with quick fixes or platitudes, but with a steady presence that knows how to stay.
I believe healing isn’t about being “better”; it’s about becoming more tenderly connected to yourself, even in the midst of the mess. It’s about remembering that there’s still a part of you untouched by illness or fear; a place of deep truth, wisdom, and quiet strength.
My role is to walk with you as you find your way back there.
Back to your breath.
Back to what matters.
Back home to yourself.
