Grief Training for Counsellors & Mental Health Professionals
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Grief is already in the room. Even when nobody calls it grief.
There’s a curious gap in counselling training that client work soon exposes.
Grief runs through almost every area of therapeutic work, yet most core training barely covers it. And when it does, grief is often treated as though it only begins when there's been a death.
Grief runs through almost every area of therapeutic work, yet most core training barely covers it. And when it does, grief is often treated as though it only begins when there's been a death.
But clients grieve relationships, health, identity, safety, fertility, careers, communities and futures that will no longer happen.
They may not call it grief. They may arrive talking about anxiety, anger, shame, numbness or feeling completely lost. The loss may only become visible as the work unfolds.
They may not call it grief. They may arrive talking about anxiety, anger, shame, numbness or feeling completely lost. The loss may only become visible as the work unfolds.
Our training helps counsellors and mental health professionals recognise grief in its many forms and feel more confident working with it - without forcing it into stages, limiting it to bereavement or treating it as something that needs to be resolved.
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Supporting Grief Well: The Grief Map Approach
Grief can be one of the most significant parts of a client’s story and still be one of the areas counsellors feel least prepared to work with.
Supporting Grief Well: The Grief Map Approach helps bridge that gap. This CPD-accredited course will help you:
Recognise grief beyond bereavement, including losses connected to identity, relationships, health and the future
Understand why similar losses can affect people very differently
Explore grief without imposing stages, timelines or assumptions
Work more confidently with sudden, traumatic and suicide bereavement
Recognise when someone may need additional or specialist support
Use the Grief Map naturally within therapeutic conversations
One in five clients walking through your door are neurodivergent.
Many familiar ideas about grief quietly assume a particular way of identifying emotions, communicating distress, accepting support and adapting to change. Those assumptions can make neurodivergent grief easy to misunderstand.
A response that looks like avoidance, denial or resistance may mean something very different when neurodivergence is part of the picture.
An autistic or ADHD client may experience shutdowns, meltdowns, sensory overwhelm, intense focus or delayed emotional processing. They may need to know precisely what happened, struggle to identify what they are feeling or appear composed while becoming increasingly overwhelmed.
A response that looks like avoidance, denial or resistance may mean something very different when neurodivergence is part of the picture.
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Elephants In Rooms Ltd. Studio Suite L Market Hall, Market Place Chesterfield, S40 1AR.
Phone number: +44 7593 790399
Phone number: +44 7593 790399
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