Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist (CAGCS)

Part II: Certification for Grief Counseling Specialist for Advanced Training

Grief is a natural reaction to death or loss, but when chronic feelings of despair, helplessness, worthlessness, and even suicide engulfs your clients’ lives to the point where they are unable to accept loss and move forward...

...your clients are stuck in complicated grief.

To help your clients get unstuck, reclaim their lives and find meaning and hope...

...you need advanced solutions to immediately address: complex grief symptoms, trauma related to grief, post-traumatic growth, maladaptive behaviors and suicidal ideations.

You can transform the way you treat grieving clients with advanced strategies that you'll learn in this comprehensive course!

You'll walk away with tools you can use immediately to help your clients not only reclaim their lives, but find transformational and lasting results. You get:

Evidence-based grief counseling strategies to treat: death or separation from a loved one or pet; major life change such as divorce, retirement or relocation; loss of a job, income or role; social isolation or loss of social interactions.
Advanced clinical skills you need to quickly develop and tailor solutions specific to the uniqueness of each client’s grief experiences.
Step-by-step interventions to aid your clients through making meaning after loss, increasing their well-being and reducing symptoms of complicated grief and trauma.
Practical, real-life suicide assessment and prevention techniques to advance your clients’ ability to problem solve, self-regulate and communicate their needs.

You'll gain the tools you need to help your clients lead fulfilling lives after major loss or other traumatic personal devastation.

Best of all, upon completion of this self-study program, you're eligible to become a Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist (CAGCS) through Evergreen Certifications and certification is FREE for two years ($249.99 value)!

Change your practice and change your life...

Register today and enhance your process of working with bereaved individuals. Earn your way towards an advanced grief counseling certification (CAGCS) as you gain invaluable tools to help your clients’ well-being, find meaning, and reduce symptoms of complicated grief. This certification training course includes suicide assessment & intervention in addition to post-traumatic growth and trauma related to grief.

Master advanced grief counseling training today and become certified through Evergreen Certifications!

Grief Treatment: Current Evidence Based Approaches to Care Across the Lifespan
Alissa Drescher, LPC, GC-C, CT, MA Click here for information about Alissa Drescher

Watch Alissa Drescher, LPC, GC-C, CT, MA as she provides you with fast and unique treatment tools that can be used in a wide variety of circumstances for grievers of all ages. You'll gain a new complicated Grief Treatment Model that will replace outdated approaches and revolutionize how you treat grief. You'll gain the tools to use with individuals facing a more persistent response to grief - from early responses to potential limitations and new assessment strategies and interventions that will provide transformational clinical results to your bereaved clients. You'll get step-by-step instruction about:

Grief theory beyond Kübler-Ross
Circumstances of bereavement and implications of specific losses
Grief counseling strategies across the lifespan: assessments & interventions for different developmental stages
Grief Treatment – current evidence-based approach to care
- Typical trajectory griever - assessment tools and expressive arts, companioning model, narrative therapy and other specific interventions to address limitations and treatment
- Complicated griever - assessment, grief and trauma interventions and meaning reconstruction
- Ethical considerations such as socio-cultural, gender bias, spirituality and other contexts and tailored treatments to address each client's unique grief
For more detailed information: Click here for course objectives and outline.

Post-Traumatic Growth for Loss, Grief and Related Trauma: Guide Your Clients through the Losses in Life and Help Them Reinvest Themselves in a Life Worth Living
Rita A. Schulte, LPC Click here for information about Rita Schulte

This segment will help your clients address grief by telling their most potent grief stories so they can pursue healing. You will gain the tools to help your clients calm the traumatized brain and ground them with mindfulness and body work to release the burdens of anger, shame and guilt. You'll develop new coping tools to help your clients apply distraction techniques and positive self-talk so they can achieve post-traumatic growth with creative interventions informed by CBT, Expressive therapies and Somatic Psychotherapy. You get:

Effective methods to calm the overactive brain and improve affect regulation
The “Shattered Vase” and other imaginative exercises that open clients to new possibilities
Practical tools to manage traumatic memories and address the toxic emotions of anger, guilt and shame
Move clients toward post-traumatic growth with interventions informed by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Creative expressive and somatic interventions using art, writing, and remembered resources to facilitate post-traumatic growth
Help your clients reinvest in a life worth living: rekindle the desires of the heart
For more detailed information: Click here for course objectives and outline.

Suicide Assessment and Intervention: Today's Top Challenges for Mental Health Professionals
By Paul Brasler, MA, LCSW Click here for information about Paul Brasler

Suicidal behaviors and suicidal ideation represent some of the most challenging things we deal with as clinicians. This module will tackle the most challenging question: why do people kill themselves? while also providing you with the strategies on how to engage shut down, withdrawn or resistant clients. You'll learn how to apply interventions to help your most vulnerable clients with the real-life skills and knowledge. You gain:

A comprehensive assessment guide to identify suicidal risk
Suicide intervention strategies: supporting clients from “passive” ideation to full-blown crisis
Application of psychological interventions, problem solving, emotional regulation and pharmacology: short and long term interventions
Other clinical considerations: non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI); relationship between suicide, mental illness and trauma
For more detailed information: Click here for course objectives and outline.

Certification Made Simple

In just three easy steps, you will become a Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist - CAGCS starting today:

Step 1: Watch the online course.

Step 2: Complete the CE test and instantly print your certificate of completion.

Step 3: Submit the Certification Questionnaire included in this training and we'll cover the cost of your certification for 2 years. Click here for full Certification requirements.

That's it! No hidden fees. No catch. Just certification made EASY. *Professional standards apply. Learn more at www.evergreencertifications.com/cagcs

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Frequently Asked Questions About This Course

This course has over 14 hours of content in easy-to-digest, on-demand video modules with extensive content to enhance your process of working with bereaved individuals. Earn your way toward an advanced grief counseling certification (CAGCS) as you gain invaluable tools to help your clients increase their well-being, find meaning and reduce symptoms of complicated grief. This CAGCS certification training course includes suicide assessment & intervention in addition to post-traumatic growth and trauma related to grief.

Certification with Evergreen Certifications demonstrates elevated competency in that you have met clear and established guidelines of training and experience. Matriculated providers take pride in developing a specialty in particular approaches, and obtaining a certification is one way to emphasize and give credibility to those efforts. For some, certification may help to distinguish themselves in the marketplace. Don't take our word for it. Here's what your colleagues have said:

“…the training and certification process reinforced my knowledge and credibility as a Trauma professional.” – Shashi D.

“The process and content of becoming a certified clinician in gaining my Evergreen Certifications in several areas helped me be a better prepared and more effective clinician. I gained a deeper knowledge of specific disorders with effective means of how to treat them and deeper understanding for myself.” – Jessica D.

“When clients come into my office I want them to know, and see, that I’ve taken the time to learn about trauma, a specialized skill. My certification is much more than a framed certificate.” – Bill M.

With over 14 hours of video online training, insightful commentary, case studies and examples, you will have powerful new clinical strategies that you can immediately start applying in your practice! We encourage you to take the time to fully absorb everything. Watch the videos. Read the materials. Get your CE hours! Earn your certification!

But, if you review all of the course materials and are still not satisfied, give us a call at 800-844-8260. Your satisfaction is guaranteed.

Yes! Once you register for this course... the materials are yours to keep, access and review forever.

Join Thousands of Your Fellow Clinicians Today

Your colleagues have applied this knowledge -- hear their incredible feedback!

"Very well done; loved the activities; would have loved to have seen it in person; extremely passionate presentation!" — Radonna T. in response to Grief Treatment

"I would recommend this to any therapists even the ones who do not want to specialize in grief counselling." — Valerie M. in response to Grief Treatment

"My clinical specialty is crisis and I have done thousands of these type of assessments. A good class, well organized and quite enjoyable." — Lisa H. in response to Suicide Assessment and Intervention

Part II: Certification for Grief Counseling Specialist for Advanced Training
$909.96 Value
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Earn up to 14.75 CE Credits! Click here for CE credit details. Plus, FREE CAGCS certification for 2 years ($249.99 value)!

The Next Steps in Advancing Your Practice

Watch your email for your order confirmation, and get instant access to all course materials, including the bonus materials — all designed to help you effectively integrate advanced grief counseling into your practice and your life. Click here for course objectives and outline.

Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You'll have unlimited access to all course videos and materials online forever. Plus, use the PESI Mobile app to access the course content on-the-go, wherever and whenever you want on your mobile devices.

Instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through interactive message boards. You'll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners all focused on integrating the advanced grief counseling in clinical practice, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences and to build your professional network.

Complete your online CE tests and earn up to 14.75 CE hours! Click here for CE credit details and credit details specific to your profession.

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Register for this comprehensive training course without risk. If you're not completely satisfied with your new collection of skills, actionable strategies, concrete tools, and go-to curriculums, give us a call at 800-844-8260. We’re that confident you'll find this learning experience to be all that's promised and more than you expected.

Part II: Certification for Grief Counseling Specialist for Advanced Training (CAGCS)

$909.96 Value
Today, Just $299.99 — Incredible Savings!

GET CERTIFIED!

Earn up to 14.75 CE Credits! Click here for CE credit details. Plus, FREE certification for 2 years ($249.99 value)!

NOTE: No additional discounts or coupons may be applied to this course.