Erica Sirrine – Embracing Life After Loss

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Erica Sirrine – Embracing Life After Loss

“How do I move on after this?”, “Sometimes, I wish it was me who died.”, “I feel like it is all my fault.”, “I’m not sure I will ever find happiness again.”, “My friends keep telling me to keep busy.”, “I’m hurting and no one understands.”

In this memorable workshop about loss and grief, the voices of these clients and others will be brought to life. Dr. Sirrine A workshop that combines amazing case stories and creative intervention strategies creates an unforgettable experience. Learn the skills you need to be a competent grief counselor and help people of all ages mourn and heal from their losses.

This workshop will provide you with 25 practical techniques that will change the way you practice medicine. Dr. Sirrine Brings a “tool-kit” You can learn her top therapeutic techniques and then make your own. These techniques are simple to use and encourage client involvement in the grieving process. This can lead to healing and reconciliation after a loss. Dr. Sirrine’s presentation style is uplifting and emphasizes the importance of promoting client hope following loss.

This workshop will help you intervene quickly and skillfully in the case of clients who are experiencing premature grief, loss, and pain from a death. This workshop is designed for clients who are experiencing a loss. However, the majority of the information can also be used to help with other types of loss such as chronic illness, death, divorce, military deployments, and termination of parental rights.

1. Analyze the differences between depression and bereavement in their clinical presentation.
2. Assess the life span for developmentally appropriate grief symptoms and make a diagnosis.
3. Create individualized therapeutic interventions to support bereaved children, teens, adults, and families by using a variety of modalities.
4. Consider the importance of continuing relationships after death for your clinical work with bereaved patients.
5. A support group should be established for grieving children, adolescents, or adults.
6. Integrate therapeutic techniques to help clients grieve other types of loss, such as divorce, chronic illness and military deployment.

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Understanding Loss

• Grief vs.Mourning
• Depression and Bereavement: A Difference
• Secondary Losses After Death
• The Problem with “Getting Over It”
• After treatment, inhibitors of healing Loss

Attachment and Love Loss

• Maintaining Proximity After Separation
• Assessment and expression of continuing bonds
• Adaptive vs. Maladaptive Continuing Bonds

Evaluation of Grief and Loss

• What Qualities Make a Good Grief Counselor?
• Honoring the Sacred Space of the Heart
• To address physical, emotional, and spiritual reactions Loss
• Factors that Influence the Mourning Process (i.e. Age, Culture and Gender, Spirituality).

Anticipatory Grief Counseling

• Normalizing the Dying Process, Grief Experience
• Anticipatory Grief Intervention Techniques
• Strategies for Funeral Ritual Preparation

Differential Responses for Adults and Youth Loss

• Common Misconceptions regarding Grief & Mourning
• The Paradox of Pain
• The Tasks of Mourning/Central Components
• Important importance of client self-Take care
• Grief Symptomatology: Case Examples from Infancy-Adulthood
• “Things We Want Adults to Know About Our Grief”
• Red Flags/Signs of Concern

25+ Strategies and Interventions to Promote Healing for All Ages

• Bibliotherapy
• Journaling and Scrapbooking. Poetry. Letter Writing.
• Therapeutic Art and Photography
• Interactive Family Activities
• Remembrance music
• Therapeutic Games
• Memorialization Rituals
• Grief Retreats and Camps
• …and more!

Grief and Loss Support groups for adults, adolescents and children

• Family involvement
• 6-8 Week Curriculum/Session Topic Outline
• Creative Facilitator Activities & Techniques

Reconciliation and healing

• Journey through the grief
• Hope as a therapeutic tool
• Light amid the darkness