[ Create an account](/create-an-account)[ Log In](/log-in) [ Cart](/cart) [ ![Telehealth Certification Institute LLC Logo]() ![Telehealth Certification Institute LLC Logo]()](/) # Supporting Clients who are Grieving due to Racism and Discrimination Enroll in the Online Self-Study course and complete it at your own pace. 2.5 CE hours available for behavioral health clinicians upon completion. **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. Enroll in the 2.5 CE Online Self-Study for **$50** *Payment Options are listed at checkout* [Register Now - 2.5 CE](/index.php?option=com_hikashop&ctrl=product&task=updatecart&quantity=1&cid=752&Itemid=2665) Register for the 0 CE Training Video for **$25** *Payment Options are listed at checkout* [Register Now - No CE](/index.php?option=com_hikashop&ctrl=product&task=updatecart&quantity=1&cid=1550&Itemid=2665) **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. ![Tiffani Dilworth Headshot]() ## Instructor ### Tiffani Dilworth, MA, LCPC, Tiffani Dilworth 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 the Managing My Grief Podcast. ## 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. *This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Instruction consists of 2.5 hours of video instruction and a post-test.* [Enroll in the Online Self-Study](#EnrollmentOptions) ## Select each tab for course details 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:** [**Directions for completing a course can be found by clicking here.**](/how-to-complete-a-course) **This program was recorded on September 22, 2022.** CE Hours ### **Credit Hours:** CEs provided with this course include 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 this course would be accepted by your licensing board. 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 programing. ### **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 activity 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. 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