Grief & Loss

The benefits and challenges of grieving online

As technology continues to change the way people grieve, counselors need to be prepared to help clients navigate how they express their grief online in safe and healthy ways.

Coping with the loss of a supervisee to suicide

One counselor shares his painful story of losing a supervisee to suicide and offers advice on how to cope after traumatic loss.

Why, when and how to talk with grieving clients about sex

Grief is an experience that everyone navigates at different points in their lives. For the past three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted peoples’ lives in myriad ways and left many experiencing significant grief.

Perspectives on grief and loss

The experience of grief and loss is universal; the circumstances surrounding it and the way people understand and process it are anything but.

A firsthand experience of grieving pet loss

A counselor turns to Worden’s tasks of mourning as he tries to navigate the nonlinear and sometimes unpredictable course of his own personal grief.

Untangling trauma and grief after loss

Experiencing a sudden and unexpected loss can send people into a steep decline as they wrestle, often unknowingly, with elements of both trauma and grief.

Gone but not missed: When grief is complex

Clients still need to process the death of a person with whom they had a rocky, toxic or strained relationship, even if they don’t express feelings of sadness or recognize the death as a true loss.

The invisibility of infertility grief

Although infertility is fairly common, the losses associated with it are less likely to be recognized, acknowledged, validated and supported, which often leaves women and couples to navigate the experience on their own.