Grief in a Changed World: Treatment Strategies for Traumatic, Anticipatory and Unattended Grief

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Rita Schulte, LPC Related seminars and products

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Rita Schulte is a licensed professional board-certified counselor. She received her B.S. in psychology and a master's degree in counseling from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Rita has a private practice in Fairfax where she specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, anxiety/depressive disorders as well as grief, loss, and trauma. In April 2011, she launched Heartline Podcast where she talks with top leaders in the Christian counseling and literary world about cutting edge issues affecting the hearts and lives of people today. She also airs a 1-minute devotional spot Consider This coming to KLZ radio this fall. She is the author of several books: Shattered: Finding Hope and Healing through the losses of Life, Imposter, Think This not That and forthcoming in 2021, Surviving Suicide Loss: Making Your Way Beyond the Ruins (Moody Publishers). Rita is a speaker for PESI, ACA, AACC, and many other organizations.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Rita Schulte receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Rita Schulte is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselor's and the American Counseling Association.

Outline

• Loss/Depression/Loneliness/Disconnection
• Trauma and the Brain
• Face Loss, Grief and Trauma with a Strengths-Based Approach
• Children and Grief
• What can schools do?
• Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder
• Trauma 3 Areas of Impact
• Attachment and grief
• Meaning making and the importance of “why”
• Grief vs. complicated grief
• First Steps: Calm the Overactive Brain of Your Client
• Resetting the Nervous System
• Meaning Making

• Newer Models of Mourning: Continuing Bonds
• NT Interventions
• Exercises
• Mindfulness
• DBT
• Shattered Vase, Jar of Grief, ball of grief, Kintsugi, Grief House, Phototherapy, RRP, Myths
• Address guilt and shame
• How shame relates to trauma and loss

• Creating narratives
• Letter writing
• Positive remembering and repositioning
• Reframe the meaning
• Self-talk, Cognitive Distortions
• Guilt/Shame/Complex Trauma
• Parts Work

• Existential Shattering: Crisis of faith/belief/Spirituality
• Reinvest in a Life Worth Living: Rekindle the Desires of the Heart
• The PIE of life - brainstorm possibilities of growth