Katrin den Elzen, PhD, is a Research Associate with Curtin University, Perth, Australia and a grief counsellor.  She holds a Doctorate and a Master’s in Creative Writing.  Her grief memoir, Locked In, Daring to Break Free, was published in June 2024.  Katrin was an Editor for the Special Issue on Living with Loss for the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling (BJGC), together with Reinekke Lengelle, and Robert A. Neimeyer.  She has widely published, including in BJGC, Text: The European Journal of Life Writing, Life Writing, Lapidus, and the Journal of Constructivist Psychology.  Further, Katrin has published two books as lead editor:  Writing for Wellbeing: Theory, Research and Practice, and Living with Loss: From Grief to Wellbeing.  Writing her memoir prompted Katrin to specialise in Writing for Wellbeing as facilitator, author and researcher.  Further, she teaches these practices to graduate counseling students in the expressive arts at the Murdoch University, Perth.