For grieving clients, the holiday season can feel like emotional whiplash—where celebration collides with sorrow, and family gatherings become painful reminders of who's missing. Clinicians are often the only ones holding space for this grief, yet many lack clear strategies to help clients manage the tidal wave of emotions that hit during this time of year.
This course offers clinicians an evidence-informed and deeply compassionate framework for helping clients navigate holiday grief in all its complex forms. Learn how to be the steady guide your clients need through one of the most emotionally triggering seasons of the year.
Tiffani Dilworth, MA, LCPC, brings her extensive experience as a psychotherapist, grief specialist, and Fellow in Thanatology to this course. Known for her trauma-informed approach to grief and loss, Ms. Dilworth draws from both clinical insight and lived human experience to equip clinicians with practical, actionable tools they can use right away.
Ms. Dilworth’s approach emphasizes presence over problem-solving and authenticity over advice. Through an integration of research, case examples, and techniques grounded in grief theory, she guides clinicians toward providing support that is validating, effective, and trauma-sensitive.
This course explores the nature of acute, integrated, and chronic grief during the holidays; the grief triggers unique to this time of year; and how disenfranchised and masked grief can show up in clinical sessions. You’ll learn how to apply Dr. Alan Wolfelt’s companioning model, how to coach clients in setting and enforcing healthy boundaries with family, and how to help them identify, communicate, and meet emotional needs in real time. Tools such as grounding techniques, directed journaling, and creating grief-informed game plans are also covered.
Key Takeaways:
Understand grief-specific dynamics of the holidays: Learn to recognize how grief can manifest differently during the holiday season.
Implement boundary-setting techniques: Equip clients to protect their emotional well-being through practical strategies.
Apply targeted interventions: Use structured, effective interventions tailored to helping clients cope with seasonal grief.
Why this course?
Practical and timely focus: Designed specifically for the heightened emotional challenges clients face during the holidays.
Expert-led and evidence-informed: Taught by a nationally recognized grief specialist with years of experience supporting clients through trauma and loss.
A mission-aligned provider: Offered by the Telehealth Certification Institute, committed to empowering clinicians with excellence in continuing education.
Learning Objectives:
List and explain signs and triggers of Holiday Grief.
Recall 2-3 techniques to help clients create boundaries and a healthy support system during the Holidays.
Recall 3-4 effective interventions to help clients navigate their Holiday Grief.
For clients weighed down by memories, empty chairs, and unspoken pain, your support can be the difference between isolation and healing. Join us to learn how to guide clients through the holiday season with presence, purpose, and tools that truly help.
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This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Instruction consists of 1.5 hours of video instruction and a post-test.
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: Instructions for attending and completing a course can be found here.
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.
Credit Hours: This course consists of 1.5 continuing education hours of credit.
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