Sexual Trauma, Grief, and Intervention

Description

Sexual trauma impacts every layer of a person’s life—from identity to interpersonal connection to the body itself—and healing requires a nuanced, trauma-informed approach. This course gives clinicians the strategies they need to navigate the complex intersection of sexual trauma and grief with sensitivity, clarity, and clinical confidence.

If you’re working with clients who have experienced sexual trauma and loss, you’ve likely faced challenges that no graduate course fully prepared you for. This training offers thoughtful, research-based guidance that can transform your sessions and support clients in moving from trauma toward resilience.

Tiffani Dilworth, MA, LCPC, is a nationally recognized expert on grief, PTSD, and sexual trauma. A licensed clinical professional counselor, Fellow in Thanatology, and Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist, she brings deep clinical expertise and a compassionate lens to her work. Drawing from years of practice and the latest clinical research, she delivers practical insights clinicians can immediately use with clients.

In this self-paced course, Ms. Dilworth guides participants through the layered dynamics of sexual trauma and grief using a clinician-focused lens. Her approach weaves together psychoeducation, case-based learning, and intervention strategies rooted in evidence-based models.

Clinicians will explore how sexual trauma intersects with complicated grief and what distinguishes traumatic grief from other grief experiences. Topics include diagnostic criteria, the impact of sexual trauma across populations, therapeutic grief models, interventions like TFCBT and CGT, coping skills, journaling, somatic strategies, and self-acceptance techniques. The course also addresses vicarious trauma and provides tools for clinician wellness.

Key Takeaways:

• Deepen your understanding of sexual trauma: Learn to identify and explain the different types and manifestations of sexual trauma in clients.

• Navigate grief and traumatic loss: Gain insights into how traumatic grief differs from other grief responses and how to approach it in clinical care.

• Apply practical interventions: Walk away with multiple intervention techniques to better care for clients experiencing both trauma and grief.

Why this course?

• Expert-led instruction: Learn from a leading clinician in the field who specializes in the intersection of sexual trauma and grief.

• Immediately applicable tools: Gain access to practical frameworks, techniques, and resources you can use in your very next session.

• Mission-driven provider: Telehealth Certification Institute is dedicated to equipping clinicians with exceptional continuing education that enhances client outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

• List and explain different types of sexual trauma.

• Explain grief and traumatic grief.

• Recall 2-3 grief models and their techniques to support clients during treatment.

• Recall 3-4 interventions for trauma and grief to better care for clients.

The complexity of trauma and grief demands more than generalized tools—it requires depth, compassion, and the right training. This course offers just that, inviting you to grow your capacity to support clients navigating some of the most difficult experiences of their lives.

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Format and Access

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Instruction consists of 3 hours of video instruction and a post-test.

Course Details

Availability: 

From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.

Who Should Attend: 

This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods: 

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.

How to Attend: 

Course access and completion instructions.

Instructor and Disclosures

Instructor

About Tiffani Dilworth, MA, LCPC

Tiffani Dilworth, LPC, FT, is a successful psychotherapist, author, and sought-after speaker on topics related to grief, PTSD, and sexual assault. Miss Dilworth received her Master’s in Community Counseling from Oklahoma State University. She’s a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who specializes in PTSD, Grief, and Sexual Trauma. She’s a Fellow in Thanatology and a Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist.

She has worked across the US with various organizations, schools, universities, and corporations to bring awareness to the grieving process and to teach countless people how to live alongside their grief. In addition to maintaining a private practice, Ms. Dilworth is an affiliate of PsychExperts & Associates, Inc, located in Baltimore, MD.

Drawing on her rich clinical experience, Ms. Dilworth incorporates the most current information on the process of grieving with evidence-based and innovative treatment techniques that clinicians can immediately use in their practice. She’s the author of the books 11 Tools to Help Manage the Aftermath of Trauma and Types of Grief, and the host of Managing My Grief Podcast.

Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.

CE Hours

Credit Hours:

This course consists of 3 continuing education hours of credit.

Counselors:

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No, 6693.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0048.

Marriage and Family Therapists: 

Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations.  You can check with your board to determine if your licensing board would accept this course.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0135, effective May 8, 2025.

Social Workers:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, #1609, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/02/2024 – 05/02/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credits.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435.

Addiction Professionals:

This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming.

Psychologists:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0128.

Art Therapists: 

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0093.

Other Professionals:

This course qualifies for 180 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations.  Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

This is a non-interactive, self-study course.

Accommodations and Policies

Close Captioning is available for live webinars and recorded video presentations.

You can click on the following links to view our policies:

• Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities.
• Cancellation Policy
• Grievance Policy
• Support Options
• Disclosure Statement