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Grief Therapy Masterclass: Advanced Skills in Working Through Loss

with Robert A. Neimeyer, Carolyn Ng

Help your clients better navigate life after loss and cultivate the seeds of transformative growth with the rich trove of tools demonstrated in this four-volume series by renowned grief experts Robert Neimeyer and Carolyn Ng. Working with seven clients suffering a range of losses, they’ll guide you through a powerful meaning-based approach to grief therapy that goes far beyond normalizing, educating and symptom management, to nurture growth from grief.

Irvin Yalom on Grief, Loss, and Growing Old

with Irvin Yalom

Join celebrated clinician and author Irvin Yalom at the existential crossroads of life and death in a riveting interview in which he offers invaluable personal and professional insights into the meaning of work, love and loss.

A Couple in Crisis: Creating Rapid Change With EFT

with Scott Woolley

How can you work effectively with couples who have grown emotionally disconnected from each other, particularly in the face of complex issues such as illness and the specter of loss? Discover a simple framework that you can start using immediately in your practice, regardless of your approach, to guide couples through challenging sessions so they may experience each other in positive, growth-enhancing ways.

The Legacy of Unresolved Loss: A Family Systems Approach

with Monica McGoldrick

In this realistic simulation of an 18-week course of therapy with the Rogers family, we see how the presenting problem—teenage daughter Michelle's rebellious behavior—masks unresolved loss across three generations of family members.

EFT Masterclass Volume 4: Grief and Loss

with Leanne Campbell

In this final video in our EFT Masterclass series, Leanne Campbell artfully works with a couple attempting to rebuild their relationship following the earlier traumatic loss of their newborn infant.

Freeing Ourselves from the Ghosts of Our Past

with Monica McGoldrick

When clients don’t confront and mourn their losses and family tragedies, they become stuck, fixed in time and unable to move forward. In this riveting narration of the life and work of pioneering family therapist Norman Paul, Monica McGoldrick teaches us how to help clients examine, explore, and ultimately break free from the unacknowledged and unmourned losses in their families, so that they may live fully in the present.

Coping with the Suicide of a Loved One: An REBT Approach

with Albert Ellis

Learn to use Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) from the man who developed the method in a therapy session with Roseanne, whose husband committed suicide in front of her and her baby daughter ten years ago.

Death, Dying and Grief in Psychotherapy (2-Video Series)

with Milton Viederman

Watch Milton Viederman, MD, bring a psychoanalytic orientation to psychotherapy with patients struggling with grief — both in a private clinical setting and with in-hospital cancer patients—in this profound series on death and dying.

Children of the Camps: The Documentary

with Satsuki Ina

A powerful, thought-provoking video perfect for use in cultural competency and awareness classes. We are sure it will provide you and your students a deeper understanding of the impact of racism, and discussions that travel far outside the classroom.

Integrative Counseling

with Jeffrey Kottler

Jeffrey Kottler showcases his expert skills in integrating multiple therapy approaches in an actual counseling session in this 3-part video.

Object Relations Child Therapy

with David Scharff

Watch renowned Object Relations psychotherapist David Scharff in an actual counseling session with an 11-year old boy who is grieving the death of his grandmother.

Explaining PTSD & The Counting Method (2-Video Series)

with Frank Ochberg & Angie Panos

In this engaging 2-video series, learn how to educate patients and their loved ones about PTSD, structure a coherent course of treatment, and employ Frank Ochberg's "counting method," a simple yet effective tool used to master the flashbacks and intrusive recollections so common in PTSD.

Healing Childhood Abuse and Trauma through Psychodrama (2-Video Series)

with Tian Dayton

In these extremely powerful live group sessions, master clinician and psychodramatist Tian Dayton works with group participants to confront childhood abuse, and work through trauma that they are carrying in their bodies.

Satir Family Therapy

with Jean McLendon

Master therapist Jean McLendon demonstrates Satir Family Therapy in this very compelling and touching video.

Object-Relations Family Therapy

with David Scharff & Jill Savege Scharff

Learn how to apply object-relations theory to family therapy by watching world-renowned psychoanalysts Drs. Jill and David Scharff conduct a live session with a very distressed family.

Living with PTSD: Lessons for Partners, Friends, and Supporters

with Frank Ochberg & Angie Panos

Watch two trauma experts offer family and community members clear, useful information about the nature and symptoms of PTSD, as well as concrete advice about how they can assist their loved ones in the recovery process.

Integrating Mindfulness into Counseling and Psychotherapy

with Ronald D. Siegel

What is “mindfulness” and how can we actually use it with our clients? Understand the principles of mindfulness-oriented psychotherapy and its application for a range of clinical issues in this new video with mindfulness expert Dr. Ronald D. Siegel.

Assessment and Engagement in Family Therapy

with Monica McGoldrick

Whether you’re new to family therapy or seeing a new family client, you need a clear and effective framework to navigate this often treacherous terrain. In this new video, legendary family therapist and genogram innovator Monica McGoldrick demonstrates how to engage and assess a family in the initial stage of treatment.

Couples and Infertility: Moving Beyond Loss

with The Ackerman Institute

Using a clinical illustration of a family systems approach to treatment, this video offers a framework for understanding the emotional and psychological impact of infertility upon couples who have sought unsuccessfully to conceive.

Grief Therapy Masterclass Volume 1: A Meaning-Based Model

with Robert A. Neimeyer, Carolyn Ng

Working with grieving clients is one of the most technically challenging and emotionally demanding clinical endeavors, one for which most clinicians are neither formally trained nor prepared. This video, the first in a breakthrough four-volume series, will help clinicians move beyond outdated notions and methods or simply “waiting for time to heal,” so they can work confidently, compassionately, and effectively with clients who have been overwhelmed by loss.

Grief Therapy Masterclass Volume 2: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Loss

with Robert A. Neimeyer

One of the greatest challenges to working with grieving clients is helping to free them from the pain of the “event story,” or the circumstances and details of their loved one’s death — especially when the loss is traumatic. In this video, the second in a four-volume series, clinicians will learn to skillfully and compassionately help grieving clients gain some therapeutic distance from the event story of their loss through the process of restorative re-telling.

Grief Therapy Masterclass Volume 3: Realigning Relationships with the Deceased

with Robert A. Neimeyer

Working with grieving clients who enjoyed a positive relationship with their lost loved one usually centers around sadness, yearning, and separation distress. This video, the third in our four-volume series, will deepen clinicians’ skills in working with this form of “adaptive grief” while also helping other clients navigate the more challenging terrain of complicated bereavement, dominated by prolonged, and debilitating loss-related symptomatology.

Grief Therapy Masterclass Volume 4: Reinventing the Self After Loss

with Robert A. Neimeyer, Carolyn Ng

Therapists working with grief may become overly focused on the loss, missing out on growth opportunities for the client. This video, the final in our four-volume series, will further prepare clinicians to work with grieving clients by guiding them in the reconstruction of their identity and relationships as they begin to integrate their loss.

Clinical Art Therapy with Families

with Maxine Junge, Helen B. Landgarten, Shirley Riley

“Being a real family art therapist is different than just using art with the family,” states Maxine Junge, Ph.D, ATR-BC, HLM who hosts this historic look at the work of three premier family art therapists. Learn from these pioneers’ actual art therapy sessions with families in need.

Individual & Joint Art Therapy with Mother & Child

with Laura Greenstone, Judith Aron Rubin, Cindi Westendorf

Three art therapists demonstrate how to involve family in the process of art therapy as the young patients express grief and adolescent angst.

The Journey of Butterfly

with Robert E. Frye

Cine Golden Eagle award winning The Journey of Butterfly weaves together music, art, poetry and the history of children imprisoned in the Ghetto Terezin from 1941 to 1945, where they created the art, performed operas and concerts.

Donald Meichenbaum on Coping with Loss and Traumatic Bereavement

Join renowned clinician and researcher Donald Meichenbaum in a riveting and very personal conversation with our editor, Lawrence Rubin, on grief, trauma, bereavement, and resilience.

Kenneth Doka on Grief Counseling and Psychotherapy

A leading expert on grief counseling and therapy, discusses how understanding individual grieving styles is essential to grief counselors and all therapists helping clients deal effectively with loss.

That Tipsy Session: The Power of Self-Disclosure

with Anastasia Piatakhina Giré

Help your clients move from shame to self-acceptance by accepting your own personal vulnerability.

What Remains: The Aftermath of Patient Suicide

with Margaret Clausen

Psychologist Margaret Clausen shares poignantly about the loss of her client to suicide, the steps she took to heal her grief, and the isolation and shame that many clinicians needlessly suffer in the wake of client suicide.

The Therapist Mourns His Mother's Death: Being With Clients While Heartbroken

with Bob Livingstone

Therapist Bob Livingstone offers grieving therapists advice about the effects of mourning upon therapeutic practice.

Motivational Interviewing in End-of-Life Care

with Ellen Young

A social work intern grapples with a situation that would challenge even an experienced clinician: helping a loving wife decide whether to stop feeding her dying husband of 64 years.

A Shared Diagnosis: Managing Breast Cancer Together

with Maggie Mulqueen

What clinical choices does a therapist have when both they and their clients are navigating cancer treatment?

Coming Full Circle: Helping a Young Couple Through Their Grief

with Liz Tingley

A therapist who lost a sibling during childhood shares her sense of gratitude when she has an opportunity to help parents who are grieving the loss of their own child.

Terminally Ill Pediatric Patients and the Grieving Therapist

with Sara Loftin

A pediatric clinician shares the rewards and challenges of working with terminally ill children and their families.

Unlocked: Online Therapy Stories

with Anastasia Piatakhina Giré

In an excerpt from “Unlocked: Online Therapy Stories,” Anastasia Piatakhina Giré shares intimate reflections on her work with Laila, whose harrowing escape to freedom is a tale of personal empowerment and the power of connection.

Why I Hate Alzheimer’s

with Christine Hammond

Reflecting upon personal experience, therapist Christine Hammond takes us into the personal and professional world of working with Alzheimer’s Disease.

A Matter of Death and Life

with Irvin D. Yalom, MD & Marilyn Yalom, PhD

In this excerpt from A Matter of Death and Life, Irvin Yalom speaks from the depths of pain over losing his beloved wife and co-author, Marilyn; not only to fellow therapists but to all of us who have lost loved ones.

Trauma and the Reproductive Story

with Janet Jaffe

Clinician Janet Jaffe works with clients who have experienced traumatic reproductive loss, helping them to rewrite their narrative on the road to healing.

Grief and Gratitude: Working with Stroke Survivors

with Carol Howard Wooton, MFT & Gwyn Fallbrooke

After suffering from a stroke herself, a therapist recounts her journey from patient to professional, culminating in her leading groups for other stroke survivors.

Encounters with Suicide: A Psychotherapist Remembers Not to Forget

with Catherine Ambrose

A psychotherapist treating a suicidal client struggles with memories--and forgetting--of suicide in her own family.

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

with Pete Walker

In this excerpt from his newly-released book, Pete Walker offers therapists an accessible, compassionate and refreshingly de-pathologizing framework for treating clients whose childhood abuse and neglect have created lifelong suffering and instability.

Francine Shapiro on the Evolution of EMDR Therapy

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