When your clients are devastated by loss, they're counting on you to guide them through their pain.
But grief is unpredictable, often misunderstood, and leaves wounds that linger for years afterward.
That's why we've gathered the biggest names in grief work, including Megan Devine, David Kessler, Claire Bidwell Smith, Litsa Williams, and more so you can enhance your skills and feel more prepared than ever before to walk alongside the grieving in a world overwhelmed by loss.
Introducing our exclusive Mastering Grief Counseling and Treatment Training Course, where you'll learn essential tools and strategies from the field's leading experts.
Each will provide you with unique insights into the grief process, along with the techniques and strategies they've used and perfected in their renowned careers to help countless individuals navigate their grief journeys.
In over 18 hours of online training, you can complete at your own pace, you'll cover the topics that go beyond the basics and prepare you to work with the many faces of grief so you can:
Whether you're a therapist, counselor, social worker, nurse, or anyone in the helping professions working with grieving clients... this training program is for you.
Register today and get...
But grief is unpredictable, often misunderstood, and leaves wounds that linger for years afterward.
That's why we've gathered the biggest names in grief work, including Megan Devine, David Kessler, Claire Bidwell Smith, Litsa Williams, and more so you can enhance your skills and feel more prepared than ever before to walk alongside the grieving in a world overwhelmed by loss.
Introducing our exclusive Mastering Grief Counseling and Treatment Training Course, where you'll learn essential tools and strategies from the field's leading experts.
Each will provide you with unique insights into the grief process, along with the techniques and strategies they've used and perfected in their renowned careers to help countless individuals navigate their grief journeys.
In over 18 hours of online training, you can complete at your own pace, you'll cover the topics that go beyond the basics and prepare you to work with the many faces of grief so you can:
- De-pathologize and rehumanize grief…for your clients and yourself
- Harnesses the power of emotion to help clients reach their goals
- Go beyond acceptance and replace painful memories with meaningful connections
- Cultivate self-compassion; facilitate emotional expression
- Help clients manage the "should haves" of regret and end self-blame
- Free your clients from the cycle of traumatic grief they worry they'll never escape from
- Ethically use self-disclosure to enhance your work with grieving clients
- And much more!
Whether you're a therapist, counselor, social worker, nurse, or anyone in the helping professions working with grieving clients... this training program is for you.
Register today and get...
- Pre-recorded presentations from the field's leading experts
- Earn up to 18.5 CE hours
- Handouts for each session
- Unlimited access to ALL recordings
Mastering Grief Counseling and Treatment Training Course
A premier online training for healing professionals working with grief and loss.$839.86 Value
$199.99 Today — Stunning Savings!
Plus, earn up to 18.5 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
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Here's what your colleagues have to say about this one-of-a-kind training:
"This was really beautiful. I could've listened to Claire teach all day. Great resources, ideas, and info to substantiate methods used. Thank you. I look forward to using this in my practice."
—Joy R., Social Worker
—Joy R., Social Worker
"The empathy and person experience shared was more than I ever imagine understanding grief in another language and way to support those living with grief."
—Amanda M., Social Worker-School-K-12
—Amanda M., Social Worker-School-K-12
"Very well delivered. Material was most relevant to my counseling practice. I gained new insights for my clients and for my own grief experience."
— Stephanie C., Activity Professional
— Stephanie C., Activity Professional
"The trainings are very reaffirming. They reinforce feelings I have had for over 37 years of practice and have been implementing without validation from other professionals."
—Sherry W., Nurse-Advanced Practice
—Sherry W., Nurse-Advanced Practice
"This was one of the best grief trainings I have ever seen. I will definitely be able to relate to clients in a different way based on the things I learned."
—Shandi E., Social Worker-School-K-12
—Shandi E., Social Worker-School-K-12
Session Details
The 6th Stage of Grief: Why Meaning Making is More Important Than Ever
David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE
"There is no meaning in dying in a pandemic." I've heard this from so many people over the last two years. And they're right. And the meaning isn't in the "why." The meaning is in us and what we do after…and today making meaning in the wake of loss is more important than ever before. In this incredibly moving session, you'll join David Kessler, the world's foremost expert on grief and loss, as he shows you how your clients can go beyond acceptance and find ways to replace painful memories with meaningful connections and move toward personal growth.
David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE
"There is no meaning in dying in a pandemic." I've heard this from so many people over the last two years. And they're right. And the meaning isn't in the "why." The meaning is in us and what we do after…and today making meaning in the wake of loss is more important than ever before. In this incredibly moving session, you'll join David Kessler, the world's foremost expert on grief and loss, as he shows you how your clients can go beyond acceptance and find ways to replace painful memories with meaningful connections and move toward personal growth.
Clinical Strategies for Collective Grief and Pandemic Fatigue
Diana Sebzda, LPC, FT
The scale of loss your clients have been subjected to is unlike anything in a generation. Grief is now collectively woven into our experience... far-reaching with no discernible end. And the raw emotional weight of an ever-present pandemic reminds us all that death and loss are much closer than we realize. In this session, grief expert and Fellow in Thanatology, Diana Sebzda, LPC, will show you how the added layers of collective grief and pandemic fatigue continue to impact your clients, and how you can adapt your work to help them better cope with the fallout. Includes concrete tools, techniques, and strategies to facilitate healthy grief and overcome anticipatory grief in the age of COVID.
Diana Sebzda, LPC, FT
The scale of loss your clients have been subjected to is unlike anything in a generation. Grief is now collectively woven into our experience... far-reaching with no discernible end. And the raw emotional weight of an ever-present pandemic reminds us all that death and loss are much closer than we realize. In this session, grief expert and Fellow in Thanatology, Diana Sebzda, LPC, will show you how the added layers of collective grief and pandemic fatigue continue to impact your clients, and how you can adapt your work to help them better cope with the fallout. Includes concrete tools, techniques, and strategies to facilitate healthy grief and overcome anticipatory grief in the age of COVID.
From Loss to Resilience with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)
Dr. Leanne Campbell, PhD
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) is one of the fastest growing therapeutic approaches available to clinicians today. Its attachment-based experiential approach makes it a perfect fit for grief-work, giving you a roadmap and set of interventions to support your clients on their unique journeys to growth and resilience.
Dr. Leanne Campbell is an internationally acclaimed expert on EFIT and co-author of A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) with Dr. Sue Johnson. In this session, Dr. Campbell will show you how attachment theory and science offer a guide to more fully understanding love and loss. Plus, Dr. Campbell will provide clinical demonstrations so you can witness for yourself how EFIT harnesses the power of emotion to help clients reach their goals in the aftermath of loss.
Dr. Leanne Campbell, PhD
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) is one of the fastest growing therapeutic approaches available to clinicians today. Its attachment-based experiential approach makes it a perfect fit for grief-work, giving you a roadmap and set of interventions to support your clients on their unique journeys to growth and resilience.
Dr. Leanne Campbell is an internationally acclaimed expert on EFIT and co-author of A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) with Dr. Sue Johnson. In this session, Dr. Campbell will show you how attachment theory and science offer a guide to more fully understanding love and loss. Plus, Dr. Campbell will provide clinical demonstrations so you can witness for yourself how EFIT harnesses the power of emotion to help clients reach their goals in the aftermath of loss.
Creating Safe Spaces for Culturally Diverse Clients to Grieve
Tiffani Dilworth, LCPC, CAGCS
Culturally unique ways of mourning have often been overlooked or unacknowledged, abruptly derailing the grieving process for many. Without empowering clients to openly feel and express grief within the cultural contexts of their pain, they're missing an essential element to healing.
Led by Tiffani Dilworth, LPC, this session will illuminate a path of skills, understanding, intersection, and compassion that will leave you better prepared than ever before to help clients from diverse cultures, subcultures, and religions, openly express emotional experiences, work through the grief of racism and injustice, and much more.
Tiffani Dilworth, LCPC, CAGCS
Culturally unique ways of mourning have often been overlooked or unacknowledged, abruptly derailing the grieving process for many. Without empowering clients to openly feel and express grief within the cultural contexts of their pain, they're missing an essential element to healing.
Led by Tiffani Dilworth, LPC, this session will illuminate a path of skills, understanding, intersection, and compassion that will leave you better prepared than ever before to help clients from diverse cultures, subcultures, and religions, openly express emotional experiences, work through the grief of racism and injustice, and much more.
Narrative Therapy Techniques for Navigating Grief and Uncertainty
Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC
The pandemic has served as a reminder that we never know what's around the bend. I was fourteen when both of my parents got cancer at the same time. My mother died when I was eighteen and my father died when I was twenty-five. Life was hard after that. I felt very alone in the world and unsure of my purpose. But through it all, I wrote — writing had always been my outlet and eventually it became my salvation.
As a therapist, I've found it to be one of the most powerful tools for working with grieving clients. Join me as I share narrative exercises you can use to cultivate self-compassionate, facilitate emotional expression, and help clients find peace and connection in times of uncertainty and crisis.
Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC
The pandemic has served as a reminder that we never know what's around the bend. I was fourteen when both of my parents got cancer at the same time. My mother died when I was eighteen and my father died when I was twenty-five. Life was hard after that. I felt very alone in the world and unsure of my purpose. But through it all, I wrote — writing had always been my outlet and eventually it became my salvation.
As a therapist, I've found it to be one of the most powerful tools for working with grieving clients. Join me as I share narrative exercises you can use to cultivate self-compassionate, facilitate emotional expression, and help clients find peace and connection in times of uncertainty and crisis.
Seizing the Moment: Re-Humanizing Grief Care for Our Clients and Ourselves
Megan Devine, LPC
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, but they're facing their own cascading losses as well.
Join me for a critical 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.
Megan Devine, LPC
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, but they're facing their own cascading losses as well.
Join me for a critical 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.
Expressive Arts for Children and Adults: Giving Grief a Voice
Diana Sebzda, LPC, FT
Many people are left speechless when death and loss tear their world apart. And when you have clients grieving so intensely that words won't come, being creative isn't an option... it's a necessity. In this can't miss session, grief expert and Fellow in Thanatology Diana Sebzda, LPC, will show you how you can use transformative expressive arts interventions with clients from a wide range of ages, backgrounds, and abilities.
Simple to add to your toolbox and implement in sessions, you'll leave with creative techniques to give your clients a place to hold their pain, externalize their grief, and express emotion, and love in ways that other techniques simply can't replicate.
Diana Sebzda, LPC, FT
Many people are left speechless when death and loss tear their world apart. And when you have clients grieving so intensely that words won't come, being creative isn't an option... it's a necessity. In this can't miss session, grief expert and Fellow in Thanatology Diana Sebzda, LPC, will show you how you can use transformative expressive arts interventions with clients from a wide range of ages, backgrounds, and abilities.
Simple to add to your toolbox and implement in sessions, you'll leave with creative techniques to give your clients a place to hold their pain, externalize their grief, and express emotion, and love in ways that other techniques simply can't replicate.
Ethics and Personal Loss: Using Self-Disclosure in Grief Support
Litsa Williams, LCSW-C
So many professionals drawn to grief work have experienced their own personal losses. And a growing body of research shows us that self-disclosure can be a tremendous asset in our work with clients. But handled incorrectly, it can do more harm than good. In this session, Litsa Williams, LCSW-C, grief expert and co-founder of whatsyourgrief.com, explores personal loss, countertransference, and how to ethically use self-disclosure to enhance your work with grieving clients.
Litsa Williams, LCSW-C
So many professionals drawn to grief work have experienced their own personal losses. And a growing body of research shows us that self-disclosure can be a tremendous asset in our work with clients. But handled incorrectly, it can do more harm than good. In this session, Litsa Williams, LCSW-C, grief expert and co-founder of whatsyourgrief.com, explores personal loss, countertransference, and how to ethically use self-disclosure to enhance your work with grieving clients.
Survivors' Guilt, Regret, and Shame: Interventions for Today's Grieving Clients
Dr. Christina Zampitella, FT
Guilt, regret, and shame are common emotions to experience after a loss or traumatic event. But the pandemic has added unique and complicated elements to counseling and treatment that we must account for.
In this timely session, Dr. Christina Zampitella, FT, will show you how to help clients manage the "should's" of regret, end self-blame and shame, and overcome the profound sense of guilt they may feel because loved ones succumbed to the virus while they survived.
Dr. Christina Zampitella, FT
Guilt, regret, and shame are common emotions to experience after a loss or traumatic event. But the pandemic has added unique and complicated elements to counseling and treatment that we must account for.
In this timely session, Dr. Christina Zampitella, FT, will show you how to help clients manage the "should's" of regret, end self-blame and shame, and overcome the profound sense of guilt they may feel because loved ones succumbed to the virus while they survived.
EMDR Toolbox for Traumatic Grief and Mourning
Megan Salar, LCSW, ACADC, CCTP-II, EMDR-C
Sudden or traumatic losses can leave clients stuck in the mourning process, unable to let go of the pain. Avoidant, hyperaroused, and inundated with intrusive images and flashbacks, these clients cannot progress through the natural process of grief and form a new kind of loving relationship with the deceased.
EMDR is one of today's most in-demand therapies and has proven itself to be particularly effective in working with grief and mourning. In this session, you'll join EMDR expert Megan Salar, LCSW, EMDR-C, as she shows you how EMDR can help you free your clients from the cycle of complex symptoms they worry they'll never escape.
Megan Salar, LCSW, ACADC, CCTP-II, EMDR-C
Sudden or traumatic losses can leave clients stuck in the mourning process, unable to let go of the pain. Avoidant, hyperaroused, and inundated with intrusive images and flashbacks, these clients cannot progress through the natural process of grief and form a new kind of loving relationship with the deceased.
EMDR is one of today's most in-demand therapies and has proven itself to be particularly effective in working with grief and mourning. In this session, you'll join EMDR expert Megan Salar, LCSW, EMDR-C, as she shows you how EMDR can help you free your clients from the cycle of complex symptoms they worry they'll never escape.
Mastering Grief Counseling and Treatment Training Course
A premier online training for healing professionals working with grief and loss
$839.86 Value
$199.99 Today — Stunning Savings!
A premier online training for healing professionals working with grief and loss
$839.86 Value
$199.99 Today — Stunning Savings!
Plus, earn up to 18.5 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
And when you register today, you get 4 BONUS sessions!
Unattended Grief: Interventions to Facilitate Healthy Grieving
David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE
When social connections, routine, and sense of security are disrupted, it's difficult to fully acknowledge the losses in our lives amongst the chaos. But left unattended, grief can negatively impact every aspect of our being — altering our physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual health. In this session, David Kessler shares the tips and interventions he's found most helpful in facilitating healthy grieving, even in unprecedented times.
Grief and Addictions
David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE
The grim news surrounding opioid abuse continues to make headlines. What do we need to do differently for clients grieving for a loved one who overdosed? And how do therapists themselves deal with the loss of an addicted client?
Grieving and Remembering Well: Tools for Healing
David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE
While most therapists are experienced in exploring the pain of grief, their clients may be asking for a clear direction out of their pain. How does the therapist deal with questions of "When will this pain end?" How and when can the therapists help the client shift from feeling pain to experiencing healing? David Kessler will look closely at how death shapes our grief and explore appropriate interventions and talking points to use in your sessions.
Kids and Loss: How to Work with the Uniqueness of a Child's Grief
Erica Sirrine, PhD, LCSW, FT
Children are often impacted most intensely following the loss of an immediate or extended family member. Trauma, pain, and confusion replace safety and security. But their understanding of death, and responses to the grief that follows, are largely influenced by their developmental level, making their treatment much different from that of an adult. In this powerful session, you'll learn to better understand the unique nature of grief in children and adolescents and get developmentally appropriate treatment strategies to help these clients find hope and healing.
David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE, is a grief specialist and the author of six bestselling books, including his latest, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief. He co-authored two bestsellers with the legendary Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. His first book received praise from Saint (Mother) Teresa. He also serves as Specialist Reserve for the Los Angeles Police as well as having served on the Red Cross's disaster services team. His article in the Harvard Business Review, titled, The Discomfort you are Feeling is Grief went viral, giving us a vocabulary to discuss our losses big and small. His talk with Brené Brown was the #1 podcast in the world. He is the founder of www.grief.com which has over five million visits yearly from 167 countries.
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Diana Sebzda, MA, LPC, FT, has a private practice where she counsels, educates, and consults on all aspects of dying, death, and bereavement. She has over 17 years of experience working with all aspects of grief, end-of-life issues, spiritual crisis, relationship issues, self-esteem and confidence, trauma, forgiveness, reinvestment in life, and disenfranchised griefs. Diana is a Fellow in Thanatology (FT) with the Association for Death Education and Counseling where she is co-chair of their Pet Loss Networking Group. She is the former director of bereavement at the Joseph T. Quinlan Bereavement Center and a member of the Traumatic Loss Coalition of New Jersey, the American Counseling Association, and the Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement. Diana earned her M.A. degree in applied clinical psychology from William Patterson University.
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Dr. Leanne Campbell is a Registered Psychologist, a co-founder and managing partner of Campbell & Fairweather Psychology group, and an ICEEFT Certified (International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy) Trainer. In addition to providing psychological services to hundreds of individuals, couples, and families over the past three decades, Dr. Campbell provides trainings in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to professionals around the globe with a primary focus in the areas of grief and trauma. Most recently, she co-authored with Dr. Sue Johnson the first individually focused EFT book, A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Growth and Fitness in Every Client (Routledge, 2022).
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Tiffani Dilworth, LCPC, CAGCS, is a successful psychotherapist, author, and sought-after speaker on topics related to grief, PTSD, and sexual assault. She has worked across the US with various organizations, schools, universities, and corporations to bring awareness to the grieving process and to teach countless people how to live alongside their grief. The author of the books 11 Tools to Help Manage the Aftermath of Trauma and Types of Grief, she is also the founder and executive director of the non-profit organization, Inspirational Hope Inc. Ms. Dilworth also hosts the Managing My Grief Podcast, to provide support to individuals who want to learn more about ways to manage their own grief. Ms. Dilworth is a Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist through Evergreen Certifications.
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Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC, has worked as a therapist specializing in grief for over a decade and is the critically acclaimed author of three books of nonfiction: The Rules of Inheritance (Penguin 2012), After This: When Life is Over Where Do We Go? (Penguin, 2015) and Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief (Da Capo, 2018). Claire's work has been celebrated by mental health advocates like Maria Shriver and New York Times Bestselling Author Cheryl Strayed. She has written for various publications including The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Slate, Chicago Public Radio, The Guardian, Psychology Today and Yoga Journal.
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Megan Devine, LPC, is an acclaimed grief expert, psychotherapist, and author of the best-selling book It's Ok That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand, considered required reading by grieving people and professionals around the world. With over 20 years in the field, her pioneering work provides a professional, inclusive, and realistic approach to grief, one that goes beyond pathology-based, reductive models.
A sought-after expert when grief erupts in the public sphere, Megan's work is featured widely in the media including the New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, GQ, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, the PBS documentary Speaking Grief, and more.
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Litsa Williams, LCSW-C, is co-founder of What's Your Grief, one of the country's largest online grief and bereavement support communities, providing support to millions of grieving individuals and professionals seeking education around grief and loss. Litsa has worked in the field for over a decade and had been featured as a grief expert for The New York Times, USNews, NPR and The Huffington Post. She is the co-author of What's Your Grief? Lists to Help You Through Any Loss set to be released in September 2022.
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Dr. Christina Zampitella, PsyD, FT, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a Fellow of Thanatology through the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC). She is the founder and owner of The Center for Grief and Trauma Therapy, co-owner and director of clinical services at Integrative Psychology Group, and a professional speaker. She teaches in undergraduate and graduate level psychology programs for several universities, focusing her courses and publications on death, loss, grief, and trauma. She served as the chair for the Continuing Education Committee for the San Diego Psychological Association from 2007-2009 and the Delaware Psychological Association from 2018-2019. Dr. Zampitella specializes in death, loss, bereavement, integrative psychology, and nature-based therapy. She is the former resident psychologist on Fox 5 News in San Diego and often appeared on NBC News in California and Philadelphia. She has been featured in Elle Magazine, BuzzFeed, Washington Post, and The Huffington Post.
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Megan Salar, LCSW, ACADC, CCTP-II, EMDR-C, was trained on the use of EMDR as a treatment protocol through EMDRIA and uses EMDR in her practice to achieve improved outcomes with a broad spectrum of clients in the areas of trauma, abuse, and substance abuse. Her trainings have helped thousands of clinicians across the country get the most out of EMDR, trauma, and addiction-based skills and practices. Megan is the author of EMDR Workbook for Trauma and PTSD: Skills to Manage Triggers, Move Beyond Traumatic Memories, and Take Back Your Life set to be released by New Harbinger in late 2022. She earned her master's in clinical social work from Northwest Nazarene University and is a member of EMDRIA and the International Society of Addiction Medicine.
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Erica Sirrine, PhD, LCSW, FT, is a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience in the field of death, dying, and bereavement. She earned a PhD in social work and has been awarded the distinction of Fellow in Thanatology by the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Dr. Sirrine has conducted and published research on grief and bereavement, including a recent study on college student experiences of loss amid the COVID-19 pandemic that was featured in TIME magazine. She maintains a blog on grief and is the author of Sammy's Story, an anticipatory grief counseling book for young children experiencing the serious illness of a parent.
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Mastering Grief Counseling and Treatment Training Course
A premier online training for healing professionals working with grief and loss
$839.86 Value
$199.99 Today — Stunning Savings!
A premier online training for healing professionals working with grief and loss
$839.86 Value
$199.99 Today — Stunning Savings!
Plus, earn up to 18.5 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline