Supporting Clients who are Grieving due to Racism and Discrimination

Description

Racism and discrimination don’t just wound the psyche—they steal safety, belonging, and opportunity, leaving behind a trail of unspoken grief. Behavioral health professionals must be equipped to recognize, validate, and treat this unique form of loss.

In this timely self-study course, you’ll gain the tools and insight to support clients processing grief related to racial injustice—losses that are too often dismissed, minimized, or misunderstood. This training invites clinicians to strengthen cultural awareness, deepen therapeutic connection, and create space for healing.

Tiffani Dilworth, MA, LCPC, brings her expertise as a nationally recognized grief specialist, trauma clinician, author, and podcast host to guide participants through the subtle and overt forms of grief caused by racism and discrimination. As a Fellow in Thanatology and Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist, she translates research and clinical insight into compassionate, practical strategies that clinicians can implement right away.

With a warm and client-centered teaching approach, Ms. Dilworth explores complex themes through the lens of grief work, offering clinicians concrete tools while honoring the lived experiences of diverse communities.

Course topics include the intersection of racial trauma and grief, how disenfranchised grief impacts mental health outcomes, culturally responsive therapeutic models, implicit bias awareness, narrative therapy, the ATTEND model, complicated grief therapy, and strategies for creating safe spaces for healing. Participants will also explore cultural and spiritual influences on mourning, somatic and cognitive coping tools, and interventions for prolonged or complicated grief.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand grief from a culturally-informed lens: Learn how racism and discrimination produce grief that often goes unacknowledged in traditional clinical settings.

• Apply grief-focused therapeutic models: Gain confidence using tools such as TFCBT, the Companioning Model, and narrative therapy techniques with clients experiencing racialized grief.

• Cultivate healing spaces for marginalized clients: Develop the skills to reduce harm, validate complex emotional experiences, and guide clients toward meaningful coping and restoration.

Why this course?

• Addresses an overlooked clinical reality: Few CE courses explore grief as a response to racism—this training fills that critical gap with compassion and clinical depth.

• Led by a national grief expert: Tiffani Dilworth’s experience and insight into trauma, loss, and racial identity offer participants both credibility and relatability.

• Clinician-focused and immediately useful: Every tool, model, and strategy shared in this course is actionable and rooted in clinical practice, helping you meet your clients’ needs more effectively.

Learning Objectives:

• Assess personal biases and assumptions related to culture, religion, and race that can impact the therapeutic relationship.

• Explain how racism and discrimination can lead to grief in minority groups.

• Recall 3 to 4 grief models and techniques to create a safe space for clients to express grief.

This self-paced course is a meaningful step toward delivering more compassionate, inclusive care. It offers the opportunity to reflect, grow, and better support clients whose grief is too often silenced. Add this course to your library and continue your journey toward equity-informed clinical excellence.

Format and Access

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Instruction consists of 2.5 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 2.5 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 2.5 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 150 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