As technology continues to change the way people grieve, counselors need to be prepared to help clients navigate how they express their grief online in safe and healthy ways.
Tag: Grief and Loss
One counselor shares his painful story of losing a supervisee to suicide and offers advice on how to cope after traumatic loss.
Addressing the interplay between grief and sexuality can help clients better understand and navigate changes in sexual desire after loss.
Counselors can help youth aging out of foster care process feelings of grief and loss and develop coping skills that can help them build healthy relationships in the future.
Trauma and resiliency are not individualistic experiences, so approaching traumatic loss through a cultural resilience framework helps strengthen clients’ healing process and prevent severe mental health outcomes.
Survivors of intimate partner violence experience a range of emotions, but their grief and loss after ending the abusive relationship often go unnoticed and unaddressed.
The experience of grief and loss is universal; the circumstances surrounding it and the way people understand and process it are anything but.
A counselor turns to Worden’s tasks of mourning as he tries to navigate the nonlinear and sometimes unpredictable course of his own personal grief.
Clients still need to process the death of a person with whom they had a rocky, toxic or strained relationship, even if they don’t express feelings of sadness or recognize the death as a true loss.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a perfect example of how understanding the different types of grief, especially original grief, can be helpful to us when we experience current daily triggers, because our deep grief awareness can better inform the tools we implement to ground ourselves.