Who Krasna Works With
About Krasna
Krasna works alongside individuals and couples navigating grief and loss, life transitions, relationship difficulties, overwhelm, and significant change.
Her approach is calm, collaborative, and grounded in deep respect for each client's pace.
She creates a space where experiences can be spoken about honestly, without judgment or pressure.
Krasna's own experience of rebuilding life after profound loss shapes the way she works. She understands how grief and emotional pain can slowly erode a sense of self — and how healing is often about rebuilding, not fixing.
Counselling available in English and Croatian.
Later Life Counselling — South Perth
Later life brings its own unique and often unspoken challenges.
Retirement, bereavement, shifting health, changing relationships, and the gradual loss of roles and people that once shaped daily life; these experiences are profound, and they deserve proper support.
Many older adults find themselves carrying grief quietly, managing anxiety about the future, or feeling isolated in ways that are hard to name. Others are navigating significant relationship changes, caring for an ageing partner, or adjusting to a life that looks very different from the one they had planned.
Krasna offers counselling specifically for adults in later life, a calm, unhurried space to process what is happening, make sense of change, and move forward with greater clarity and steadiness.
Are you searching for support for a parent or loved one?
Many enquiries for later life counselling come from adult children looking for support for an older parent. Krasna welcomes these enquiries and can help you find the right pathway for your family member.
Krasna commonly supports older adults with:
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Bereavement and grief after the loss of a spouse, partner, sibling, or close friend
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Adjusting to retirement and the loss of identity or purpose that can follow
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Anxiety, low mood, and depression in later life
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Relationship difficulties and communication breakdown in long-term partnerships
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Coping with a health diagnosis, your own, a partner or a family member
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Loneliness and social disconnection
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Family conflict and strained relationships with adult children
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End-of-life anxiety and existential concerns
Grief and Bereavement Counselling in South Perth
Grief is a natural and deeply personal response to loss. But that does not make it easy to carry, especially when life continues to demand that you keep going.
Krasna provides bereavement counselling for families and adults experiencing grief in all its forms, the loss of a person, a relationship, a role, a home, or a version of life you had expected to live.
Grief does not follow a timeline. Some people find that grief surfaces months or even years after a loss. Some carry grief from multiple losses at once. Others feel confused by emotions that do not match their expectations, relief, anger, numbness, or guilt alongside sadness.
All of these experiences are valid. Krasna's role is not to move you through grief faster, but to walk alongside you as you find your own way through it.
Grief counselling can help when you are:
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Struggling to function in daily life after a loss
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Coping with a health diagnosis, your own, a partner or a family member
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Managing a chronic illness
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Feeling isolated or unable to talk to family and friends about your grief
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Experiencing guilt, anger, or complicated feelings about the person you lost
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Going through anticipatory grief, grieving someone who is still alive but unwell
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Finding that grief is resurfacing after a long period of coping
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Supporting family members, children or grandchildren through loss, and not sure how to help yourself at the same time
Croatian Speaking Counsellor — Perth
Grief, loss, depression, and major life changes can quietly reshape how you see yourself, your relationships, and your future. They can drain energy, confidence, and meaning, especially when you’re still expected to keep going for others.
Krasna offers counselling that is calm, grounded, and deeply respectful of each client’s pace. Her work is informed by both professional training and the lived experience of profound loss while raising a young family. She understands how grief and emotional pain can slowly erode a sense of self and how healing is often about rebuilding, not fixing.
Couples Counselling
Couples counselling with Krasna provides a calm, neutral space to:
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Rebuild communication and understanding
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Address long-standing patterns of conflict or withdrawal
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Reconnect after a period of distance or difficulty
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Navigate grief, health challenges, or major change together
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Child-focused parenting and co-parenting arrangements
Trauma Recovery
Krasna supports:
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PTSD and CPTSD
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Childhood trauma and abuse recovery
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Medical trauma
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Family domestic violence recovery
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Trauma-related anxiety, hypervigilance, and emotional dysregulation
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Rebuilding safety, trust, and identity after trauma
Croatian Speaking Counsellor — Perth
Krasna is fluent in Croatian, a language passed down by her parents, who immigrated to Australia before she was born.
For many people, expressing deep emotion in a second language feels limited. Speaking in your first language allows for greater depth, cultural understanding, and a sense of truly being heard.
Frequently asked questions
Krasna's Counselling Approach
Krasna’s counselling practice has been shaped by personal experience of rebuilding life after a significant change. Through reflection and healing, she came to a place of acceptance and quiet steadiness. This experience strengthened her belief that every person holds inner resources, even when they feel unreachable.
In her work, Krasna supports clients to reconnect with clarity, meaning, and their own sense of strength, offering a space that is compassionate, thoughtful, and emotionally safe.
Krasna’s approach is integrative and client-centred, drawing on evidence-based and mindfulness-informed practices tailored to each individual.
Her work commonly integrates:
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Person-centred counselling
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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Solution-Focused approaches
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Mindfulness-based and compassionate practices
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Body-aware and emotionally attuned support
The counselling relationship itself is central to her work. Clients are met with respect, warmth, and genuine presence, not pressure to move faster than they are ready to.
A Bit About Krasna
My favourite thing about being a counsellor:
Being able to offer counselling in both English and Croatian allows Krasna to support clients in a way that feels familiar and deeply understood. She has seen how meaningful it can be for Croatian clients to express themselves in their mother tongue, speaking freely and openly with someone who understands not only their language, but also their cultural background and heritage.
My most impressive achievement:
Personally, Krasna’s greatest achievement has been becoming a mother to her two wonderful sons, who are now adults.
Professionally, her journey has included many rewarding roles in management, leadership, and human resources.
One Quirky Fact:
Crystals and plants are a big part of Krasna’s home. They help create a warm, grounded, and welcoming atmosphere.
What Clients Often Appreciate
Compassion & understanding
Person-centered approach
Evidence-based therapy
Practical communication
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Family & Mental Health Resources
Rather than offering quick fixes or advice, these resources aim to support understanding.
Distress is explored in context, including relationships, development, nervous systems, and life circumstances, with care taken to avoid pathologising language or fear-based messaging.
New articles are added as needed, not on a fixed schedule.
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Locations:
South Perth:
Suite 5,
95 Canning Highway,
South Perth, 6151
Who we help
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Children aged 3 -12
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Employment Assistance Program EAP
Policies & Procedures