Move from feeling uncomfortable and ineffective to empowered and confident.

You’re an AWESOME therapist. You frequently get feedback that you’re good at what you do and you see the results in your clients. But when it comes to working with grief, you feel helpless, ineffective, ill-equipped, or just plain uncomfortable. Instead of being present with a client and their grief, you get caught up in your own anxiety-based thoughts like: “Eek, I don't know what to say. I hate not having all the answers…” or “I don’t want to do more harm than good, but what if I say the wrong thing?” or “this traumatic story is just too much to bear witness to…”

Why you should learn from me.

Hi! I’m Nikki Sewell, LCSW, and a self-described “grief nerd.”

After recovering from my own losses (by the time I was 30 years old, I had lost a parent and a spouse, what?!?), my personal journey through loss became a professional mission to support others through their experience of loss. I’ve created a process to help clients move from the shock, disorientation, and trauma of their loss through the devastation and loneliness toward rebuilding a life worth living. Even when the thought of moving forward without their loved one seems impossible. I’ve solidified processes for screening, intake assessment, treatment planning, short-term “brief grief intervention” and longer-term interventions for grief counseling and therapy, as well as psychoeducation to normalize the grief process when clients just feel like they’re “going crazy.”
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What you will learn by enrolling now.

This grief training CEU course is divided into 6 modules. Each module includes 5-10 video lessons, downloadable slide decks, handouts, and helpful resources.

    1. Introduction to Course

    1. Walkthrough of Clinician Journal

    2. Journal Exercise 1: Loss Narrative

    3. Journal Exercise 2: Pivotal Losses

    4. Journal Exercise 3: Moving Through Loss

    5. Journal Exercise 4: Assumptions about Grief

    6. Journal Exercise 5: Discomfort and Avoidance

    7. Journal Exercise 6: How Our Losses can Inform Our Work

    8. Journal Exercise 7: Self-Care

    9. Journal Exercise 8: Planning for Grief

    10. Resources to Accompany Module 1

    1. Accompanying Slides to Module 2

    2. Key Terms for Grief and Loss

    3. The Impact of Grief (Seven Domains of Wellness)

    4. How the pandemic has altered the landscape of grief and loss

    5. Losses on the Rise in the Pandemic

    6. Brief Intro to Traumatic Loss and Grief

    7. Resources to Accompany Module 2

    1. Accompanying slides to Module 3

    2. Introduction to Module 3: The Intake Process

    3. Self-compassion in Grief Counseling

    4. Companioning the Bereaved

    5. Therapeutic Attitude Toward Grief

    6. Foundations for Intake Assessment

    7. Anxiety and Anticipation

    8. Mediators of Mourning Part 1

    9. Mediators of Mourning Part 2

    10. Treatment planning

    11. Resources to Accompany Module 3

    1. Accompanying Slides to Module 4

    2. Intro: Managing the crisis of loss

    3. Sitting with Suffering

    4. Reviewing Normative Grief

    5. Overview of Traumatic Grief and Loss

    6. Suicide and Homicide as Traumatic Loss and Grief

    7. Diagnosis and Intervention

    8. Resources to Accompany Module 4

    1. Accompanying Slides to Module 5

    2. Intro to Module and Prolonged Grief

    3. Considering Prolonged Grief Disorder Diagnosis

    4. Fostering Resilience

    5. Four Tasks of Mourning

    6. Meaning Reconstruction

    7. Posttraumatic Growth

    8. Meaning and Growth-oriented Questions

    9. Resources to Accompany Module 5

About this course

  • $97.00
  • 54 lessons

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Below, I answer all your FAQs. Is there a question I didn't answer? Reach out here: [email protected] (be sure to add me to your contacts so my reply doesn't go to your spam folder).

  • How is this course be taught?

    Let's make sure the teaching format is conducive to your learning needs. This course allows students to go at their own pace. Video lessons offer slides with voiceover teaching the content. You can speed up or slow down the audio to go at your own pace. You can download the accompanying slide decks and follow along.

  • How long will I have access to the course?

    You will have lifetime access to this course (meaning lifetime of the course, not your lifetime). As long as the course is hosted here on Thinkific, you will be able to revisit it time and time again and will have access to any/all updated information.

  • Do you offer refunds or a money back guarantee?

    It is my intention for you to have a wonderful learning experience. However, in light of the time, effort, and resources invested in the development of this course, no refunds will be offered. In order to ensure this course is right for you, check out the sneak peek!

  • Can I earn CEUs?

    This course was approved for 6 CEUs by NASW-CT from April 2022-April 2024. Unfortunately, CEU approval has expired :/ But! That doesn't mean you can't earn CEUs! After completion of the course, reach out to me at [email protected] and I will send you a completion certificate with all the information you need to apply to your state board for CEU approval :)