Moving Beyond a Staged Model of Grief: Strategies for Supporting Clients through Death and Non-Death Losses
Learners will be engaged in diving deeper into grief therapy practices and techniques, walking away with the ability to:
- – Identify common death and non-death losses impacting children, adolescents, and adults.
- – Appraise the most common emotional, social, physical, and spiritual reactions to loss.
- – Compare modern models of grief counseling.
- – Integrate the Core Principles of Grief-Informed Practice into clinical practice with grieving clients.
- – Employ creative interventions to support grieving clients experiencing loss.
Date: June 5th, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Presenter: Dr. Erica Sirrine
Meet Your Presenter
Dr. Erica Sirrine is a licensed clinical social worker with over 22 years of experience in the field of death, dying, and bereavement. She earned a PhD in social work and has been awarded the distinction of Fellow in Thanatology by the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Dr. Sirrine has conducted and published research on grief and bereavement, including a study on college student experiences of loss amid the COVID-19 pandemic that was published in OMEGA: Journal of Death and Dying and featured in TIME magazine. She maintains a blog on grief and is the author of Sammy’s Story, an anticipatory grief counseling book for young children experiencing the serious illness of a parent.
Dr. Sirrine has extensive expertise providing individual and group therapy to children, adolescents, adults, and families experiencing illness and loss. She has implemented numerous interventions and programs aimed at improving the emotional health of clients and currently serves as the director of social work at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Dr. Sirrine frequently presents seminars on bereavement and loss throughout the United States and is known for her interactive and engaging workshops.