Grief 101 for Clinicians and Supervisors

Combining foundational grief theory with practical clinical strategies, you’ll leave with tangible tools, scripts, and interventions that can be immediately applied in your work with grieving clients.

Why Choose This Training?

Grief is a universal human experience, yet many clinicians receive little formal training in how to effectively support grieving clients. This training provides a structured and practical approach to grief work, helping you understand what healthy adaptation to loss looks like, identify factors that may complicate grief, and support clients without pathologizing a natural response to loss.

You’ll gain both a conceptual framework and practical tools that can help you feel more confident, competent, and grounded when working with grief.

Who Can Attend?

This training is designed for clinical supervisors, counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, psychologists, and other mental health professionals who support individuals experiencing grief and loss.

Participants should have foundational training in counselling, psychotherapy, or clinical mental health practice.

What You’ll Learn

• What grief is and why it hurts so much

• Foundational grief theories and models

• Attachment, loss of the assumptive world, and continuing bonds

• How to recognize factors that may increase the risk of complicated grief

• What productive grief work actually looks like, even when healing isn’t linear

• Practical approaches for supporting grief, meaning-making, and adaptation to loss

• Clinical tools and guides, including DISRUPTERS and PRIME

• Helpful scripts and interventions for grief-focused conversations

• Common therapist and supervisor challenges in grief work

• How grief work can activate your own nervous system and personal experiences of loss

Included in This Training

• Clinical scripts and practical interventions

• Worksheets, resources, and handouts

• Tools that can be immediately integrated into practice

• Certificate of Completion

• Live virtual training

Meet Your Trainer

Krista Helman, MSW, RSW, RCSW

Krista Helman is the Founder and Clinical Director of the Trauma & Grief Institute. A Registered Social Worker in Ontario and Registered Clinical Social Worker in British Columbia, she has worked across healthcare, long-term care, government, community mental health, and private practice settings.

Krista is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, international speaker, author, and breathwork facilitator with advanced training in trauma, grief, dissociation, attachment, polyvagal theory, and ego state therapy. She is passionate about helping clinicians bridge the gap between theory and practice, leaving trainings with tools they can confidently use right away.

www.kristahelman.com

Krista Helman is a therapist, author, and speaker exploring the science of healing and the human experience of trauma, grief, and resilience.