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Digital Seminar

IFS Therapy for Grief and Loss

A Step-by-Step Program to Support Grief Processing and Meaning Making

Speaker:
Lara Krawchuk, LCSW
Duration:
Approx 6 hrs
Copyright:
Feb 03, 2026
Product Code:
POS150567
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar

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Description

Loss leaves your client’s inner world in disarray.

Overwhelmed and fragmented, some parts shut down entirely. Others try to protect them by avoiding the pain. Still others carry the raw hurt – desperately needing to be seen, heard, and held with compassion.

But the inner conflict between these parts can leave clients stuck, unable to fully experience, express, or process their grief.

That’s why if you work with grieving clients you need to be using Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy.

Because IFS offers a compassionate, structured approach to help clients connect with their inner parts, restore internal balance, and safely navigate the grieving process.

In this one-day training, you’ll join nationally recognized grief and loss expert and Certified IFS Therapist Lara Krawchuck, MSW, LCSW, MPH.

She’ll show you step by step how to apply the IFS model to any type of loss – including traumatic losses, living losses, attachment injuries, and more.

You’ll learn:

  • How to assess grieving clients effectively
  • Safety and titration strategies for intense grief
  • How to redefine the goals of grief work through an IFS lens
  • Keys to post-traumatic growth and emotional healing
  • How to tend to your own stressed, struggling, or broken-hearted parts

This program will give you practical, hands-on IFS tools to help clients process grief safely, resolve internal conflicts, and move toward meaningful healing.

Don’t wait – register now to transform the way you work with grief.

 

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

 

Credit


* Credit Note - Self-Study CE Information Coming Soon

Continuing education credit information is coming soon for this non-interactive self-study package.

CE hours may be available for select professions, as listed in the target audience. Hours will be dependent on the actual recording time. Please check with your state licensing board or organization for specific requirements. 

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**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.



Speaker

Lara Krawchuk, LCSW Related seminars and products


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lara Krawchuk is the Co-Founder and CE Director of Healing Perspectives and the Founder and President of Healing Concepts. She has employment relationships with the University of Pennsylvania and West Chester University. She receives speaking honoraria from the Portland Institute for Loss & Transition and PESI, Inc., and a consulting fee from the University of Pennsylvania Health System. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lara Krawchuk has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

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Please Note

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.


Objectives

  1. Examine evidence-based practice knowledge for grief and loss.
  2. Summarize the foundational concepts, key assessment perspectives, optimal intervention principles and evidence-base of meaning-oriented grief models
  3. Evaluate the impact of disenfranchised grief on clients.
  4. Choose trauma-informed regulation skills to ensure safety in working with highly distressed clients.
  5. Identify the benefits and limitations of applying IFS to support healing and growth with grieving clients.
  6. Determine the role of creative interventions grounded in contemporary grief theory and the IFS model of care.
  7. Choose self-care techniques to support helping professionals in navigating the compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatization frequently associated with grief work.

Outline

Evidence-Based Practice & Creativity in Grief Work

  • Defining bereavement, ambiguous and nonfinite losses
  • Grief as crisis of meaning
  • Loss of the assumptive world
  • Re-Examining the goals of grief work
  • Moving Beyond the stages of grief
  • Becoming self-led leaders

The Impact of Disenfranchised Grief

  • Honoring the influence of culture, religion, and community
  • Tending to disarticulated and suffocated grief
  • Endless Mourning
  • Understanding grief fatigue
  • Building Trust when grief is disenfranchised
  • Celebrating cultural wisdom

Contemporary Grief Theories and Principles to Guide Intervention

  • Grief specific assessment
  • Role of compassion in grief work
  • Overview of the Meaningful Grief Model
  • Dual-process model of grief
  • Sustaining continued bonds
  • Skills of meaning orientation
  • Post-traumatic growth and healing
  • Meaning reconstruction

The Backstory of Grief: Attachment, Prior Losses and More

  • Assessing attachment histories
  • Understanding the impact of prior losses and traumas
  • Skills for resourcing in times of dysregulation
  • Safety & titration with grieving clients

Internal Family Systems (IFS) for Grief

  • Role of protector parts in grief
  • Exploring internal resources: Protector parts & true self
  • Demonstration of radical welcoming for grieving parts
  • Maintaining safety in IFS grief work
  • Navigating trauma triggers
  • Unbraiding past and present
  • Preventing grief exiles
  • Research, risks and limitations

Self-Care for Grief Professionals

  • Compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma
  • Countertransference in grief work
  • The power of YouTurns
  • Moving towards being a SELF-led healer

Target Audience

  • Social Workers
  • Counselors
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Registered Psychotherapists
  • Nurses
  • Thanatologists
  • Chaplains/Clergy
  • Case Managers
  • Physicians
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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