Full Course Description
The Grief in the Room - Live Consultation Call
Copyright :
07/16/2025
Boundaries, Self-disclosure, and the Over-Share - Live Consultation Call
Copyright :
08/20/2025
Actual Interventions: it’s Not Just Validation - Live Consultation Call
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09/17/2025
When Grief and Trauma Collide - Live Consultation Call
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10/15/2025
Being Affected by the Work - Live Consultation Call
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11/19/2025
The Difficult Stuff: Meaning, Hope, and Joy - Live Consultation Call
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12/17/2025
Seizing the Moment
I thought I knew quite a bit about grief. Then on a beautiful, ordinary summer day in 2009, I watched my partner drown. If anyone could be prepared to deal with that kind of loss, it should have been me. But none of what I’d learned as a psychotherapist mattered. And when I found myself on the other side of the clinician’s couch, I discovered firsthand how outdated beliefs about grief fail us after loss.
It's time for a change. The pandemic has brought grief to the forefront of cultural consciousness. With more people seeking professional support for multiple losses, the need for skilled providers is vast – and most providers feel not only overwhelmed by their clients’ grief, they’re facing their own cascading losses as well. Watch me for a critical recorded session on the future of grief work, exploring the skills needed to de-pathologize and rehumanize grief… for our clients, for ourselves, and for the wider world.
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate the main problems with historical approaches to grief and be able to identify their own internal grief biases.
- Use simple strategies to educate and support clients in a more human-centered approach to grief.
- Use a de-pathologized lens to identify measurable client-centered outcomes.
Outline
- The current state of grief care – looking back so we can look forward
- At the crossroads: moving toward a human-centered view of grief
- Client outcomes and social change: what can we measure?
- Psychoeducation and simple strategies to de-pathologize grief in your client work
- Risks and limitations – the complex nature of diagnoses
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Social Workers
- Therapists
- Other Helping Professionals
Copyright :
04/29/2022
Non-Death Losses
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.
Program Information
Objectives
- Differentiate the features and corresponding clinical impacts of grief that occurs in non-death losses from grief that occurs in death-related losses.
- Develop a case conceptualization that accounts for the impacts of everyday stressors and non-death losses.
- Apply interventions for grief support in non-death loss scenarios.
Outline
- Grief beyond death: recognizing grief unrelated to death
- Moral distress, chronic illness, everyday stressors and more
- Changing the culture: how all clinical issues are grief issues
- Clinical responses to non-death losses, interactions and experiences
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Nurse Practioners
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professions
Copyright :
04/13/2023
Grief on the Job
Working with clients in pain is never easy. The last several years have brought more pain and suffering to your practices than ever before, but let’s face it - you’re burned out, overwhelmed, and feel under-supported. This session with acclaimed grief expert Megan Devine will give you the tools you need to manage the impacts of emotional overwhelm, set boundaries and handle grief on the job as well as because of it. 
Program Information
Objectives
- Investigate the ethical aspects and potential positive and negative clinical impacts of self-disclosure as it relates to clinical practice. 
- Develop an action plan for managing the impact of emotional overwhelm and repetition in a clinical setting.
- Determine personal and professional boundaries that help the clinician navigate personal and professional losses to alleviate symptoms of grief.
Outline
Repeated exposure to loss
- Strategies for handling overwhelm, repetition, and frustration
Creating and maintaining boundaries
- Boundary setting with clients in-session
- How to set boundaries with people outside your office
Systemic failure and the limits of infrastructure
- How the system doesn’t meet our human needs
- Tools for emotional work
Friction with the outside world
- Building support with people who don’t (or won’t) understand
The ethics of self-disclosure
- Guidelines
- Handling missteps
- Risks and limitations
Target Audience
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
04/26/2024