Most people think grief only relates to death. As such, so many discount and judge their loss experiences as “no big deal.” But now more than ever clinicians are discovering that the grief inherent in daily life has a huge impact on our clients, regardless of why they’re seeking support or treatment. In this session, Megan will show you how to recognize grief unrelated to death, change the culture about how we view these non-death losses and give you clinical solutions for improving support and connection.
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Grief and loss hit clients recovering from narcissistic abuse on multiple levels. From grieving a childhood of abuse and neglect to mourning the loss of the rosy-coloured glasses that allowed victims to stay in a cycle of abuse -- grief echoes through all corners of the adult child of a narcissist’s life. In this session, you’ll view narcissistic abuse expert and best-selling author Amy Marlow-MacCoy, LPC as she gives you the skills and tools you need to recognize grief in a client’s anger, help them identify the losses of the past, present, and future, and come to terms with the ambiguity of grieving a person or relationship that may never be peacefully resolved.
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Pregnancy loss, reproductive challenges such as infertility, birth trauma or the experience of a perinatal mental health disorder leave millions of people each year feeling "this wasn't supposed to be this way." Left to sort through the resulting grief that’s seldomly validated by society, they can find themselves in your office looking to make sense of it all and find a way forward. In this session, you’ll view expert Dr. Julie Bindeman as she shows you how you can validate these clients’ losses and help them cope with practical strategies you can start using immediately in your practice.
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Survivors of sexual assault have lost so much. Their sense of safety, trust and control have been robbed from them. Their very sense of identity taken as they grieve for the person they were, and the person they might have been had “that” not happened. Whether your clients’ pain is fresh or decades old, this session will show you how to incorporate grief work into your treatment to help survivors come to terms with what happened, overcome the guilt that can cohabitate with grief, regain their sense of control and heal.
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From clients who’ve lost the biggest source of support in their lives, to those with broken maternal bonding from neglect, abuse, or abandonment, mother loss affects clients’ sense of identity, relationships, and overall sense of place in the world. In this session, view therapist and best-selling author Claire Bidwell Smith as she combines her personal experience of losing her mother as a teenager with almost two decades of working closely with this population to give you clinical tools and interventions you need to help clients feel whole, restore their sense of worth, and heal.
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Faith, religion, and spirituality can be a supportive and comforting resource following the loss of anyone or anything that leaves a sense of deprivation and yearning. However, for some people their relationships to a higher power and/or spiritual community are painfully wounded, leading to the secondary loss of their spiritual resources, connections, and spiritual crisis. In this session, you’ll learn to recognize the impact of complicated spiritual grief on the bereaved’s grieving process and increase your skills in conducting a comprehensive clinical assessment and development of effective treatment plans.
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It’s a silent grief nobody talks about. Buried in shame, despair and fear; families living with addiction experience deep ambiguous and non-finite grief. Watching helplessly, the hopes they had for their futures dissolve before their eyes. Unrecognizable from the person they knew, families can even feel like their loved one has already died. In this session, view Litsa Williams therapist and author of What’s Your Grief? Lists to Help You through Any Loss as she shows you the specific strategies and techniques you need to counsel the families of those with addictions and design treatment plans that address the distinctively challenging emotional and relational aspects of these losses.
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A line forever between what was and what will be, those impacted by medical trauma and chronic illnesses feel every loss. Struck with a sudden or gradual forfeiture of abilities, independence, self-esteem, freedom, comfort, hope and so much more, the grief of what has been taken from them can make a path forward seem unattainable. In this timely session, Dr. Sacha McBain will show you how clinicians can work with the grief that often follows medical trauma, help clients cope with and adapt to their losses, and support them as they shape a new sense of identity and purpose for themselves.
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It has always been your calling to help the suffering.
And today a growing wave of grieving clients is looking to professionals like you for assistance as dramatic rises in death and loss have left millions in anguish.
You’re eager to lead those in pain out of their dark places and give them a glimmer of hope, but working with death and loss can be intimidating. One wrong step can break the therapeutic alliance and some forms of grief are easy to overlook, preventing you from pursuing the most beneficial treatment path.
How can you ensure you’re prepared?
This one-day certification training will give you step-by-step guidance on identifying specific manifestations of grief and individualizing counselling and treatment so you can normalize clients’ pain, listen in a way their family and friends cannot, and help them rebuild fulfilling lives!
Full of ready to use assessment tools, therapeutic approaches and specific clinical interventions, you’ll finish this training feeling ready and capable to improve grieving clients’ ability to express their emotions, build support, and process their grief in a healthy way.
Best of all, you can add a valuable certification to your resume and become a Certified Grief Informed Professional (CGP) through Evergreen Certifications upon completion of this training at no additional cost to you!
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CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!
• No hidden fees – PESI pays for your application fee (a $99 value)*!
• Simply complete this seminar and the post-event evaluation included in this training, and your application to be a Certified Grief Informed Professional through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*
Attendees will receive documentation of CGP designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following the program.
*Professional standards apply. Visit au.evergreencertifications.com/cgp for professional requirements.
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