Even though grief is an experience that no one wants to go through, it is something that everyone will eventually.\u00a0 Grief is always hard, but sometimes it is also complicated.\u00a0 Sometimes people can get through the tough experiences with their natural supports and skills they have already.\u00a0 However, sometimes people need more help with their grief experiences.\u00a0 Sometimes they need help getting unstuck.\u00a0 There are ways a therapist can help.\u00a0 When working with a child or adult who has complicated or traumatic grief, there are certain things a therapist will likely do to help.\u00a0 First, a therapist will provide grief psychoeducation.\u00a0 While the stages of grief are well known, sometimes it helps if the client understands that there is no normal process of going through the stages as everyone experiences them differently.\u00a0 It also helps for children and adults to work through the variety of feelings and thoughts they are having as well.\u00a0 Secondly, the therapist will likely help the client with resolving ambivalent feelings about the deceased.\u00a0 While this is often very difficult, for various reasons, it is necessary to identify both things that will be missed and things that won’t be missed.\u00a0 Someone experiencing grief may also be grieving things that might have occurred in the future but now they know will not.\u00a0 A therapist may help the client anticipate loss reminders or trauma reminders.\u00a0 Another aspect of processing grief that the therapist will likely assist with is preserving positive memories of the deceased. The therapist will likely have many activities that he or she can use with the child, adult, or with the entire family.\u00a0 Lastly, the therapist will help their client to redefine the relationship with the deceased as well as committing to the present relationships.\u00a0 This is a difficult thing for those suffering from complicated grief, as they may feel that moving on is a betrayal to the deceased.\u00a0 Sometimes grief is more than what a person can cope with on their own, and when this is the case, a therapist can help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Even though grief is an experience that no one wants to go through, it is something that everyone will eventually.\u00a0 Grief is always hard, but sometimes it is also complicated.\u00a0 Sometimes people can get through the tough experiences with their natural supports and skills they have already.\u00a0 However, sometimes people need more help with their … Continue reading Working with Grief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeinhealingfamilyservices.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeinhealingfamilyservices.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeinhealingfamilyservices.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeinhealingfamilyservices.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeinhealingfamilyservices.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hopeinhealingfamilyservices.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeinhealingfamilyservices.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeinhealingfamilyservices.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeinhealingfamilyservices.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}