09/28/2026
I am so excited to be offering a very personal workshop on December 4th, The Lens of Grief. I have been working on this program for close to a year and I am really proud to be bringing it to our community.
Here is a little bit of what will be offered. I hope you will join me and share it, it is a true labor of love.
The workshop:
Grief isn’t always what it appears to be. For many clients, significant loss presents as more than sadness or mourning. It may present as a constellation of symptoms that no diagnosis quite captures.
The Lens Theory of Grief begins with a simple but clinically significant premise: grief doesn't stay in one place. It drifts. It hides. It shapes everything we do. And when it goes unrecognized and unsupported, the impacts can be far reaching.
This workshop was born from personal experience as much as clinical training. I lost my mother at seventeen after a years-long battle with breast cancer, a loss that has shaped my identity, my relationships, my career and my daily life for nearly four decades. It was that lived experience, deepened by the loss of my father in recent years and grounded in years of clinical practice, that gave rise to the Lens Theory of Grief and to this program.
Drawing on the foundational work of many grief researchers, participants will develop a comprehensive understanding of how grief operates across the lifespan, how it hides inside other presenting problems and what it requires to be seen and treated effectively. The workshop will examine the full clinical landscape of grief including Prolonged Grief Disorder, Complicated Grief, Ambiguous Loss and Disenfranchised Grief.
Participants will explore evidence-based treatment approaches alongside practical tools for expanding grief assessment in standard intake and ongoing treatment. Cultural and spiritual considerations and the therapist's own grief lens and countertransference will be addressed as essential dimensions of competent grief work.
The workshop will move between clinical and personal narrative, inviting participants to examine not just their clients' losses but their own and the ways those two lenses inevitably meet in the room.
You will leave with a framework and tools for accompanying people through one of the most human experiences they will bring into the therapy room. Most grief workshops teach you about grief. This one will change how you see it.
www.pdnprograms.com to register
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