by griefcenterweb | Jul 23, 2019 | Articles, Grieving Adults, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Resources, Self Care
This article will introduce some definitions that are useful to think about in the context of loss. Grief is the natural healing cycle humans endure when they experience the emotional, cognitive, physical, and spiritual reactions after a loss or separation. Grief is...
by griefcenterweb | Jun 25, 2019 | Articles, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Resources
Recently, we’ve had several conversations with therapists who have requested information about the intersection between loss experiences and ongoing psychotherapy. Many therapists need to increase their knowledge and experience helping individuals through the intense...
by griefcenterweb | Feb 22, 2019 | Articles, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Resources
Empathy has been described and defined in many ways. In the last few years, I have been collecting my thoughts about empathy as it applies to psychotherapy and would like to share them here. My bias is to see the concept as a therapists’ main instrument for...
by griefcenterweb | Nov 26, 2018 | Articles, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Resources, Self Care
In the last few years, there have been days, weeks, months even, when I have felt more uncertainty and gloom than ever before in my adult life. Whatever personal issues were within and in front of me, they felt toxified by the social and political disorder of our...
by griefcenterweb | Nov 9, 2018 | Communal Grief, Grieving Adults, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Resources, Self Care
At a mental health provider training that I attended not long ago, at one point the facilitator was attempting to communicate how survivors of trauma often feel frighteningly out of control even in the most secure and benign situations. In a tone that suggested he...
by griefcenterweb | Jul 25, 2018 | Articles, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Self Care
We have all been conditioned to think about human vulnerability primarily in terms of weakness. As such, the experience of vulnerability is to be denied and avoided at all costs. We think to be weak is unacceptable. To be vulnerable is to be weak, therefore it is...
