Fall Continuing Education 2025

More Than Sad: Exploring the Spectrum of Grief in Clinical Practice Sept 26, 2025

🖤 Grief Is Everywhere and It’s Not Always About Death

As therapists, we’re often trained to recognize grief in the context of loss through death. But what about the child grappling with a parent’s incarceration? The client losing their sense of identity in chronic illness? The community mourning cultural dislocation or climate collapse?

Grief lives in so many places; in lost dreams, broken attachments, shifting roles, and invisible heartaches. It doesn’t always look like tears. It can show up as rage, numbness, anxiety, or silence. And it can be hard to name… unless we’re equipped to see it.

This workshop is your invitation to expand your grief lens.
To hold space not just for bereavement, but for the full spectrum of loss: ambiguous, disenfranchised, intergenerational, anticipatory, traumatic, and more.

🌿 Why This Workshop Matters

Therapists carry stories of grief every day. And yet, many of us feel uncertain when grief takes unfamiliar forms, when it doesn’t follow a neat “five-stage” model, or when it’s compounded by trauma, culture, or shame.

You deserve to feel confident, prepared, and empowered to meet grief wherever it shows up, across the lifespan and across identities.

In this highly experiential 3-hour CE workshop, you’ll:

Recognize grief in its many disguises: from eco-grief to identity loss to cultural mourning.
Learn expressive, somatic, and ritual-based tools to gently support clients through sorrow.
Build confidence in containment and co-regulation during sessions with intense emotional material.
Deepen your language and presence to reflect grief in culturally humble, developmentally attuned ways.

Whether you work with children, teens, or adults, this training will help you meet your clients' grief not with fear, but with clinical grace.

🕯️ You Don’t Need to Have All the Answers, Just the Right Tools

Join us on September 26, 2025, and give yourself permission to expand your capacity for holding grief.

Because your clients need you, not just when someone dies, but when identity crumbles, safety shatters, or something essential is lost without goodbye.

🧰 Workshop Highlights

Real-world clinical case examples
Guided experiential activities
Breakout room reflection and feedback
Evidence-based tools and takeaways
Downloadable grief vocabulary cheat sheet

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Workshop Details

3 Continuing Education hours

Zoom- Live Online Experiential Workshop

$64 for students, teachers, and non-profit employees (Use Coupon Code: EDU-CE)
$79 General Registration

Learning Objectives

Grief is not a one-size-fits-all experience. It extends far beyond death and into the spaces of ambiguous loss, identity rupture, cultural trauma, and everyday invisible heartbreaks. This 3-hour interactive workshop explores the multidimensional nature of grief, helping clinicians recognize and respond to a wide variety of grief presentations including: ambiguous, disenfranchised, collective, anticipatory, traumatic, intergenerational, and eco-grief.

Grounded in trauma theory, attachment science, and cultural humility, this workshop equips mental health professionals with language, tools, and rituals to support clients navigating complex grief. Participants will engage in experiential activities, clinical case examples, and small group reflection to deepen insight and confidence when holding grief in the therapy room. Special emphasis is placed on containment, grounding, and co-regulating during emotionally intense sessions.

Whether you work with children, teens, or adults, this workshop will expand your grief vocabulary, enhance your somatic and expressive interventions, and provide meaningful strategies to honor and hold space for the stories grief tells.

Identify and describe at least eight clinically significant types of grief including ambiguous, disenfranchised, and intergenerational grief.
Differentiate how grief manifests across developmental stages, cultural contexts, and therapeutic relationships.
Demonstrate three or more clinical strategies to support emotional regulation, containment, and closure in grief sessions.
Apply expressive and somatic-based interventions to help clients name and process both recognized and unrecognized losses.

Qualifications to register for this program

Registrants of this program must be qualified mental health professionals or students of a graduate mental health program.

Program Presenter

"As a breast cancer survivor, I bring both clinical expertise and lived experience to my work with grief and loss. This personal journey has deepened my understanding of how grief can shape identity, relationships, and the healing process. It also informs my compassionate, culturally aware approach to supporting others through visible and invisible forms of loss."

Antoinette Martinez, M.Ed. is a bilingual (Spanish) Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (Texas License #71350) who has experience working with children, teens, and adults. She is a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor through the Association for Play Therapy, a Certified EMDR therapist and consultant through EMDRIA, and a Certified Perinatal Mental Health Therapist through Postpartum Support International. Antoinette Martinez has been integrating EMDR with Play Therapy since 2013.

Cancellation & Refund Policy

No refunds after the start of the program.
Cancellation received at least 14 days prior to a scheduled training will be refunded minus a $25.00 administrative fee.
Cancellation received less than 14 days prior to a scheduled training will receive no refund but may be used for credit towards a future training of equal or lesser value.
No refund provided for no-shows or missed training.
You may transfer your registration to another attendee for no fee, so long as that person meets the qualifications to attend this program.
Attendance of full program is required.
All programs are subject to sufficient registration.
Should Nourish Play Therapy LLC need to cancel this program, we will make every attempt to notify paid registrants in a timely manner. All paid registrants will receive a full refund if a program is canceled.
Nourish Play Therapy LLC is only responsible for the registration costs of training. Any additional costs are the responsibility of the registrant.
No exceptions will be made to these policies.
Please submit your request via email to info@nourishplaytherapy.com to cancel or transfer your registration to another attendee. Please write "Program Cancel ( or Transfer)" in the subject line of the email.

Important Details

ADA Accommodations: The program site is ADA compliant. Please contact Antoinette Martinez at info@nourishplaytherapy.com if special accommodations are required. Please write "Program Accommodation" in the subject line of the email.

Customer Service: We are happy to respond to any concerns or questions you may have. Please contact Antoinette Martinez at info@nourishplaytherapy.com. Please write "Program Service" in the subject line of the email.

Grievance Policy: Nourish Play Therapy LLC is fully committed to complying with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content, and in the treatment of attendees. While we go to great lengths to assure fair treatment for all and attempt to anticipate problems, we recognize that complaints will arise. When problems do present themselves, we will attempt to alleviate complaints as quickly as possible. Complaints relative to a speaker, contents of instructional materials being presented, an individual educational style being utilized, or facilities where training is held should be addressed with Antoinette Martinez, who will attempt to resolve the matter as expeditiously as possible. Please contact Antoinette Martinez at info@nourishplaytherapy.com. Please write "Program Grievance" in the subject line of the email.

Disclosures: Antoinette Martinez is the owner and operator of Nourish Play Therapy LLC. Neither she nor Nourish Play Therapy LLC are receiving commercial support or sponsorships from outside sources for this program. There are no known conflicts of interest with this programming.

Audio/Video Disclosure: This training program is not being audio or video recorded.

Provider Responsibility: Nourish Play Therapy maintains responsibility for this program and its contents in accordance with APT and EMDRIA requirements.