Course Overview

Throughout life we are presented with a myriad of losses. Many assume that grief is associated only with the loss of a loved one. Psychology shows us that many people suffer from grief from the loss of other things like miscarriages, bankruptcy, or the loss of home and community as the result of natural disaster. Others grieve the loss of intangibles like, lost opportunities, disappointments, or other devastations. These people are often told to “snap out of it.” Grief is, quite simply put, a response to loss. The loss can be of something tangible or intangible. It helps to recognize that disappointments, abuse, recognizing one’s limitations, losing a job, or other things can elicit a grief response. Grief is the natural response to these stressors in our lives.

Research indicates that there is growing demand for professionals who are trained in manage grief. This excellent down-to-earth course in grief counseling offers you a wealth of information about working with grief stricken clients.

Although grief is a natural way of coping with loss sometimes the feelings can seem too intense to handle. At other times we may find ourselves grieving for those intangibles unable to move past the sadness. This Grief Counselling course gives you the skills and tools to can help to reduce the intensity of or to help others to experience their feelings in a more comfortable way.  Master the skills that can help you reduce the debilitating intensity of grief and loss.

Learn to help people express sadness, disappointment, confusion, anger or other emotions they will experience as part of the adjustment to profound change. Understand the two ways that grief can become problematic.

Master methods and metaphors for reducing the intensity of grief allow others to honor their true feelings while managing normal day to day responsibilities. Learn ways of determining when and how to allow the grieving process to end. Learn to recognize and help others manage feelings of loneliness and despair in ways that lets them return to life.

Grief is a very personal experience. Understand how to work within each individual’s reservoir of emotional strength to help others reconnect their own inner emotional strength. Help people find a sense of relief while still being able to experience emotions they need.

Who is the course for?

This course is for hypnosis practitioners, therapists, counselors, alternative health practitioners, EMTs, police officers, fire fighters, nurses, mortuary personnel or anyone who deals with people in grief. This course is for anyone interested in learning more about using hypnosis for grief and loss in their personal life and their professional career.

 

 

What you will learn!

• The bereavement process

• How to support a healthy grieving process

• To work with unresolved and complicated grief

• Recognize and understand normal grief

• Applying Worden’s tasks of Mourning

• When to engage grief therapy

• About different types of loss

• Different intervention approaches used in counseling

• The factors that contribute to the intensity of grief reactions

• Learn specific therapeutic techniques for working with grief and loss clients

 

 

Pre-Requisite:

Clinical Hypnotherapist

 

 

Number of Hours:

In-Class = 27

Extra-Curricular Reading & Homework =  Not Required
Practicum = Not Required

Personal Hypnotherapy Session = Not Required

Supervised Practicum Session = Not Required
Total Credited Hours = 27

 

This Course Includes:

Training manuals and materials

Formal classroom theory plus practicum

Written and demonstrated examinations

 

 

Course Completion:

You will have 1 month to complete this course.

 

 

"Using hypnotherapy to help me overcome my grief has proven to be extremely comforting for me. After the death of my husband in 2006, who was killed in a car accident, I have suffered quite badly from grief. I used hypnotherapy because it sounded like it might be useful for me, and it has been."