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Free exercises for those dealing with grief and loss

Gentle, guided worksheets to help you navigate grief—free to download, yours to keep.

Client History Of Grief And Loss

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Client Assessing Your Loss

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Client Creative Ways To Process Grief

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Free worksheets for clinicians supporting people through loss

Evidence-informed worksheets designed to support grief processing in clinical practice—free to download.

Clinician Accepting Loss

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Clinician Connecting With Emotions

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Clinician Meditations For Grief

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Explore the Grief Library:

Grief doesn't move in a straight line, and it rarely waits for a convenient time. Whether you're navigating a loss of your own or supporting clients, patients, or loved ones through theirs, these articles offer grounded insight without oversimplifying an experience that resists easy answers.

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7 Practical Strategies for Therapists Supporting Reproductive Grief

This clinician guide offers immediate strategies to validate losses, stabilize the nervous system, co-create rituals, support couples, and reauthor meaning to reduce isolation.

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Creative Interventions to Promote Healing and Reconciliation from Grief

Drawing from her online course The Ultimate Grief Treatment Toolbox, Dr. Erica Sirrine explores creative strategies that can be integrated into therapy to promote healing and reconciliation.

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Creative Interventions to Promote Healing and Reconciliation from Grief

Drawing from her online course The Ultimate Grief Treatment Toolbox, Dr. Erica Sirrine explores creative strategies that can be integrated into therapy to promote healing and reconciliation.

Erica H Sirrine, PHD, LCSW, FT

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Recognizing Clinical Presentations of Anxiety and Grief in the Context of Climate Change

Explore how you can recognize and address the clinical presentations of eco-anxiety and grief stemming from climate change using trauma-informed strategies to foster emotional resilience and empower clients.

Leslie Davenport, LMFT

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The Rainbow of Grief and Healing: Leveraging the Brain’s Power for Post-Loss Growth

Dr. Kate Truitt provides a colorful therapeutic tool for clients grieving the loss of a loved one—using memories of the departed so they can carry the positive forward.

Kate Truitt, PHD, MBA

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Navigating the Unresolved: Transforming Grief by Addressing Unfulfilled Hopes and Lingering Regrets

When someone we love dies, they take their expectations, wishes, and hopes with them, and this leaves a heavy weight on grieving clients. Learn to lighten their journey with this healing exercise from grief expert Dr. Kate Truitt.

Kate Truitt, PHD, MBA

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Dealing with Pregnancy Loss, Infertility, and Other Postpartum Grief

Caitlin Slavens and Chelsea Bodie help parents dealing with the emotional pains of motherhood with these FREE affirmation exercises. Their highly-anticipated Not Your Mother’s Postpartum Book is available for pre-order now!

Caitlin Slavens, BAACS, MC, R PSYCH Chelsea Bodie, BSC, MACP, R. PSYCH

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Incorporating Religion & Spirituality into Grief Counseling

It's become clearer and clearer that effective grief treatment needs to incorporate clients' spiritual beliefs. Dr. Christina Zampitella, PsyD, FT, shares tips for clinicians to increase their comfort level and effectively make space for clients' spiritual beliefs.

Christina Zampitella, PSYD, FT