Edy Nathan, MA, LCSWR, CST
Hello
When I was 27, in the space of a year, my husband was diagnosed with cancer and died. Navigating through my ordeal, I learned that grief is one of our greatest allies if we know how to approach it.
But it took me a long time to understand that.
Following my devastating loss, I studied grief for years. Ultimately, it led me to become a therapist, specializing in how grief affects people. I’ve made it my life’s mission to get people to talk about grief.
There isn’t a therapist in the world who hasn’t had grief show up in their office since the pandemic.
Yet you might not have recognized the grief sitting across from you.
Instead, you might have seen a client suffocating under the weight of depression. Or fretting with incessant anxiety. Or battling with bouts of uncontrollable anger and rage.
But…Grief is a master of disguise.
It hides itself, and shape-shifts to avoid detection.
It takes a keen understanding to recognize grief’s many faces. And if you can’t see that it’s actually grief you’re dealing with, your clients might stay stuck in seemingly intractable patterns.
That’s why I’ve created this course: to help therapists identify and work with grief in all its forms.
- Module 1: Redefining Grief: Curiosity and Rapport
- Module 2: A New Lens for Grief Support: The Hero’s Journey as a Roadmap for Grief
- Module 3: Refining Grief with the Client: How Personality Types Inform Healing
- Module 4: Facing the Non-Linear Aspects of Grief: Creative Tools to Use with Clients
- Module 5: Grief Work: Process and Progress
When you know what to look for, and what questions to ask, you can hone in on buried grief. You can learn to engage with grief as something to live with — rather than something to get over.
And this exploration can help your clients peer behind grief’s many masks, revealing hidden sorrows at the root of dysfunction.
This course will give you a framework, practical tools, and clear processes for working through grief with your clients.
Join me for Unmasking the Pain of Loss: Helping Clients Identify & Work with Grief.
Five in-depth Unmasking the Pain of Loss teaching modules taught by Edy Nathan
Access to the Academy of Therapy Wisdom private membership site
Downloadable course materials
Here’s what you’ll receive in Unmasking the Pain of Loss: Helping Clients Identify & Work with Grief
Recipe for Good Therapeutic Endings: What They Didn’t Teach Us In School - video lesson with Edy
Bring Compassion and Creativity to the Parts that Hold Trauma and Grief - An Interview with Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C DAPA
Embracing Vulnerability: Navigating the Intersection of Sex, Grief, and Power Dynamics - An Interview with Cyndi Darnell, M.HSc, G.Dip. Couns
Acknowledging Collective Grief: Empowering Communities to Share Their Pain - An Interview with Nathalie Edmond, PsyD
Interview with Ruth Cohn, MFT
Healing Without Narrative: The Movement of Grief and Loss - An Interview with Narayan Helen Liebenson
Working With Grief Workbook
Notes to Self Journal
Two Free Chapters from It’s Grief
Plus, these special bonuses:
Redefining Grief: Curiosity and Rapport
Grief is defined and expanded upon as a response to something that is lost and cannot be retrieved, a yearning and hunger that causes a void that is difficult to understand. Edy shares a new perspective on grief; one that demystifies grief by inviting its power into your sessions, and presents our relationship with grief as a dance to be defined and redefined over time.
In this module, you will learn:
- the Grief Timeline, a powerful tool for understanding the impact of grief over a client’s lifetime
- the difference between Big Gs and Little Gs
- how grief and trauma are linked and how to untangle them
- your role as a change agent in grief
- about the brain on grief and how you can be an ally with it
- new tools for exploring and coping with grief in and out of the therapy room
A New Lens for Grief Support: The Hero’s Journey as a Roadmap for Grief
Edy lays out a roadmap for you to use as a guide to the emotional journey grief presents in the life of a client. From how to define grief, navigating each unique path of loss, and how to be a mentor for the grieving, Edy uses phases of the Hero’s Journey as a way to understand complex grief, and as a map to return from the darkness and depression that resides there.
In this module, you will learn:
- How to use the Hero’s Journey as a map for grief
- How to align with your client’s journey
- Best practices for diving deep with your grieving clients
- Ushering clients into the New Ordinary
Refining Grief with the Client: How Personality Types Inform Healing
This module focuses on personality type inventories and how they can provide useful insights into how clients process grief.
In this module, you will learn:
- How to assess your client “behind the scenes”
- Why Extrovert, Introvert and Ambivert personality types matter to how one processes grief
- The impact of Mutable, Cardinal, or Fixed personalities on grief
- How to overcome obstacles: what to do when you don’t know what to do
Facing the Non-Linear Aspects of Grief: Creative Tools to Use with Clients
Grief is non-linear and, therefore, left-brain strategies such as talk therapy are not enough to effectively work with it. We need to integrate creative measures to help clients get out of cognitive zones that keep them stuck, afraid and in pain. No matter your clinical background, you can utilize Out-of-the-Box Thinking and strategies with your clients. Fill up your toolbox with creative tools to help recognize grief, unmask it, and engage/cope with it on a daily basis.
In this module, you will learn:
- How to reveal the core masks presented by the client
- Four tools to help clients through tough times
- The script: for you and for the client
- How to use storytelling and journaling to reframe emotionally negative experiences
- Role play and psychodrama for core interactions
- Cognitive interrupters that change the “brain on grief”
Grief Work: Process and Progress
People are often afraid to move forward with their grief, worried that moving on is the same as forgetting. In this module, Edy will guide you in how to help clients move from being fused to their grief to being able to differentiate from their grief. Help your client let go with insight, resolve unexpressed anger, and in the process create your own better endings with your clients.
In this module, you will learn:
- To identify avoidance factors for moving on The Four Phases of Forgiving and accessing F.O.R.G.I.V.E.
- The Support the Support System exercise
- The Eleven Phases of Grief: The steps within the personal dance with grief
In Unmasking the Pain of Loss, you'll dive into these areas of grief:
Meet Your Presenter
Edy Nathan
Edy Nathan is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in New York City. Edy’s work focuses on three of the four things people never want to talk about — grief, sex, and trauma (she leaves the discussions about money to others). Her work in grief, trauma, and sexuality offers insight into the way loss affects the soul and the brain. She uses these insights to breathe new meaning into the lives of those stagnated by loss or trauma.
Edy has master’s degrees in Psychology, Drama, and Social Work, and post-graduate work in Sex Therapy and Sex Education. She is a Certified Sex Therapist, Certified Hypnotherapist, EMDR clinician, psychodrama therapist, Psychology Today blogger, motivational speaker, and workshop leader. Edy is the author of It’s Grief: The Dance of Self-Discovery through Trauma and Loss.
CE Information:
This program has been approved for 5.5 distance learning CEs by the following organizations: NASW MA Chapter, CAMFT, NBCC.
Complete CE info can be found by clicking here.
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