Grief Continuing Education Workshops

Understanding the Grief of Traumatic Loss

This training will provide clinicians a framework for understanding the grief of traumatic loss, specifically exploring the relationship between acute stress, trauma, and grief. The session will identify the impact of trauma responses on bereavement and appropriate intervention. Building on the shattered assumptions theory of trauma and post-traumatic growth research, clinicians will learn practice approaches to support clients who have experienced traumatic losses and indications that referral for trauma treatment is appropriate.

Grief Therapy Techniques: A Foundation For Clinicians

There has always been a deep need for therapists, social workers, and counselors to provide grief and bereavement support to clients. And yet the majority of Masters and PhD programs in theses fields do not require coursework in grief therapy approaches and techniques

Working With Ambiguous Grief and Non-Death Losses

From coping with divorce or loss of job to losing a loved on to dementia, incarceration, foster care or addiction, therapists and other professionals are often supporting those dealing with these types of misunderstood grief. In this training, we will review the body of literature around ambiguous loss, from assessment to intervention.

Positive Psychology Tools for Grief Counseling

Grief Support for Addiction and Overdose Losses

The first half of this session will assist professionals in understanding and providing support to families coping with this non-death grief. The second half of this program will assist professionals in responding to the unique grief following a substance-related death.

Ethics and Personal Loss, Countertransference, and Self-Disclosure in Grief Support

While historically psychology, counseling, and social work discouraged self-disclosure, in recent years researchers and clinicians have adopted a far more nuanced approach to the use of self-disclosure. Unfortunately, there still remains limited education and training

Grief Support Intensive: Essential Theory and Interventions for Working with Grief - SAVE THE DATE

This twelve-hour intensive is developed to provide clinicians with the essential theoretical and practical knowledge required to support clients grieving both death and non-death losses. Using research around risk and resilience after loss, alongside the most current theories of attachment and the dual process model of coping with loss while restoring life, participants will learn tools for helping clients integrate the loss into their lives while maintaining a dynamic internal continued bond with loved ones. Participants may register for the full 2.5 days or participate in individual sessions.

Supporting Grieving Children

This workshop provides a foundation of childhood bereavement and tools for supporting grieving children. It will provide a framework for grief and developmental age, guidelines for talking to children about death and grief, tools and creative activities for helping kids . . .