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Digital Seminar

Transforming Traumatic Grief: New Strategies for Meaningful Healing from Traumatic Loss


Speaker:
Kate Truitt, PhD, MBA
Copyright:
Jan 29, 2026
Product Code:
POS059977
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Digital Seminar | Live Webinar



Description

Watch renowned trauma and neuroscience expert, Dr. Kate Truitt for an exciting new 12-hour recording designed for mental health professionals. Explore the neurological underpinnings of grief with a special focus on the role of trauma in healing grief. Don’t miss this opportunity to build your own neuroscience-based toolkit for healing traumatic grief, and learn to foster posttraumatic growth and resilience in your clients. This recording seamlessly blends the latest innovations in mental health with practical interventions to support clients navigating grief and loss. intertwines scientific rigor with heartfelt narrative, equipping mental health professionals with the tools to guide clients from mourning to meaningful recovery. Elevate your practice and empower your clients to heal and thrive amidst profound loss. 

An immersive experience featuring: 

  • Comprehensive Exploration of Traumatic Grief: Learn about the types and implications of traumatic grief, including ambiguous and disenfranchised grief. Understand how these differ from normal grief and why they require specialized approaches. 

  • Neuroscience of Grief and Trauma: Explore how the brain responds to grief, including the roles of the amygdala and prefrontal cortex. Gain insights into the somatic and physiological responses to loss and how these impact the grieving process. 

  • Building a Neuroscience-Based Toolkit: Develop practical skills in applying neuroscience-informed interventions such as Compassion-Focused Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Interventions. Learn how to integrate these tools into your practice to enhance emotional regulation and resilience in your clients. 

  • Fostering Posttraumatic Growth and Resilience: Discover strategies to facilitate posttraumatic growth, helping clients transform their grief into a source of strength and meaning. Utilize exercises like the Rainbow of Grief to promote healing and reconciliation. 

  • Addressing Regret, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Equip yourself with techniques to help clients navigate feelings of regret and survivor’s guilt. Learn to foster forgiveness and self-compassion as part of the healing process. 

  • Self-Care for the Grief Professional: Learn strategies to prevent compassion fatigue and burnout. Develop a personal self-care practice to maintain your well-being as you support clients through their grief. 

This is not just about acquiring new knowledge—it's about transforming your therapeutic approach to provide deeper, more effective care for those grappling with traumatic grief. Join us on this journey of professional and personal growth, and empower your clients to heal and thrive amidst profound loss. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to enrich your practice with cutting-edge, neuroscience-based interventions.

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.




Speaker

Kate Truitt, PhD, MBA's Profile

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Dr. Kate Truitt & Associates


Dr. Kate Truitt, a clinical psychologist, applied neuroscientist, and international bestselling author, is an expert in trauma, stress, and resilience. She is the founder of the educational platform Truitt Institute and leads her award-winning clinical team at Dr. Kate Truitt & Associates. As a member of the Goldie Hawn Foundation’s MindUP Scientific Advisory Committee and a co-developer of the Havening Techniques®, as well as an expert contributor to the Kevin Love Fund and Girl Scouts of America, Dr. Truitt passionately advocates for mental health literacy and personal empowerment globally. Her voice in the mental health arena extends to her role as a speaker and media consultant, including being featured in BBC and Today, and speaking at prestigious platforms like the United Nations and the United States Department of Defense. Dr. Truitt founded and is the chairman of the board for the Amy Research Foundation, a 501c3 organization focused on advancing research into the innovative treatment realm of neuroscience-based mental health and wellness interventions. As the author of her memoir, #1 top new release Keep Breathing: A Psychologist’s Intimate Journey Through Loss, Trauma, and Rediscovering Life and the international bestseller Healing in Your Hands: Self-Havening Exercises to Harness Neuroplasticity, Heal Traumatic Stress, and Build Resilience, she is dedicated to advancing the treatment of traumatic stress while making significant strides in destigmatizing mental health and fostering resilience worldwide.  

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Kate Truitt maintains a private practice. She is the CEO of the Trauma Counseling Center of Los Angeles. Dr. Truitt is the executive director and founder of Viva Excellence and Amy Research Foundation. She is the executive director to American Cognitive Training Association. She is the Chief Strategy Officer to The Havening Techniques. Dr. Truitt is a scientific advisor and board member to Anti-AgingGames.com and Goldie Hawn Foundation. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Dr. Kate Truitt is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the American Cognitive Training Association, and the American College of Healthcare Executives.


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Objectives

  1. Differentiate between acute, integrated, and complicated grief.  
  2. Identify the neurobiological underpinnings of traumatic grief, including the role of the amygdala in the emotional processing of traumatic grief.  
  3. Evaluate the impact of survivor's guilt from a neuropsychological perspective.  
  4. Evaluate the neurobiological changes that occur due to the Gone-But-Also-Everlasting Model in the context of traumatic grief.  
  5. Evaluate the concept of secondary grief and its implications for clients.  
  6. Assess the role of posttraumatic growth in the recovery process after a loss.  
  7. Relate the principles of neuroplasticity to the treatment of traumatic grief.  
  8. Compare grief counseling and grief therapy, including their scope and methodologies.  
  9. Examine the role of separation anxiety in the development and perpetuation of prolonged grief disorder  
  10. Identify the differences between normal grief reactions and symptoms of depression.  
  11. Determine risk factors for prolonged grief disorder.  
  12. Determine how stress-induced structural plasticity influences memory and cognitive functions in grieving individuals. 

Outline

Grief Overview: The Types of Grief & Implications for Treatment 

  • Types of Grief and Their Implications for Treatment 

  • Bereavement – Life Loss 

  • Ambiguous Grief 

  • Disenfranchised Grief 

  • Challenging Traditional Assumptions About Grief Progression 

  • Meaning-Making: The critical 6th Stage of Grief 

  • How meaning-making is a protective factor for grief clients 

  • Normalizing What Feels Abnormal for Clients in Grief 

  • Grief Counseling vs. Grief Therapy: 

  • Scope of Practice 

  • Ethical Considerations 

  • Special Considerations When Working with the Terminally Ill, Minors, and Families 

Grief and Loss Intake and Assessment Process 

  • Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan 

  • Integrating Multicultural and Spiritual Considerations 

  • Public vs. Private Mourning 

  • Impact of the Family System & Community 

  • Personal Development 

  • Comorbid Symptom Presentations 

  • Depression vs. Grief 

  • PTSD and Prolonged Grief Disorder 

  • Assessing for Complicated Grief, Depression, PTSD, and Suicidality 

Neuroscience of Traumatic Grief & Recovery: Amygdala, Prefrontal Cortex, and Beyond 

  • The Brain’s Response to Grief: Amygdala, Prefrontal Cortex, and Beyond 

  • Cognitive, Emotional, Somatic and Physiological Responses to Loss 

  • The role of separation anxiety in the grieving process  

  • Dr. Mary O’Connor’s Gone-But-Also-Ever-Lasting Model 

Partnering with the Brain through Harnessing Neuroplasticity 

  • The Role of Psychosensory Interventions for Neuroplastic Engagement 

  • Review of the literature: 

  • Tactile Mechanisms of Action: Butterfly Taps/Therapeutic Touch/Tapping 

  • Auditory and Visual Mechanisms of Action: Bilateral stimulation  

  • Demonstration and Practice Session: Techniques for Practitioner Self-Care 

  • The Sigh Breath Practice Plus Psychosensory Engagement 

  • Ethical Issues and Considerations - Integrating Psychosensory Interventions into Clinical Practice 

Treating Traumatic Encodings in Prolonged Grief Disorder/Traumatic Grief 

  • Trauma-Informed Protocols for Psychosensory Trauma-Reprocessing 

  • Review of the literature – Tapping, Adapted Information Processing Model, Thought Field Therapy, etc. 

  • Toolkit of Psychosensory Interventions Adapted for Prolonged Grief Disorder/Traumatic Grief 

  • Protocol and Targeting Sequence for Trauma Reprocessing in Prolonged Grief Disorder 

  • Protocol and Targeting sequences for the Development of Cognitive Resilience and Meaning-making in the Treatment of Trief and Bereavement 

Survivor’s Guilt Through a Neuropsychological Perspective with Clinical Application 

  • Understanding Survivor’s Guilt: Context and Manifestations 

  • Neuropsychological Perspective on Survivor’s Guilt 

  • Clinical Techniques for Addressing Survivor’s Guilt 

  • Navigating Regret and Resentment to Find Forgiveness 

Secondary Grief & Exploring the Ripple Effects of Loss 

  • Exploring the Ripple Effects: The Concept of Secondary Loss 

  • Identifying and Therapeutic Interventions for Secondary Losses in Therapy 

  • Role Changes and Identity Shifts Post-Loss 

Healing Ambiguous Loss with Neuroplasticity 

  • The Impact of Ambiguous Loss 

  • Family Systems 

  • Frozen Grief 

  • Specialized Neuroscience-Based Interventions for the Treatment of Ambiguous Grief 

Thriving After Loss: Posttraumatic Growth, Resilience, and Recovery 

  • Beyond Survival: Defining and Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth 

  • Empowerment in Grief: Tools for Building Strength and Resilience 

  • The Rainbow of Grief Exercise for Reconciliation and Healing 

Self-Care for the Grief Professional 

  • Strategies for Preventing Compassion Fatigue and Burnout 

  • Personal Self-Havening Practice 

  • The Resilient Brain Care Program 

Target Audience

  • Counselors  
  • Social Workers  
  • Marriage and Family Therapists  
  • Psychologists  
  • Psychiatrists  
  • Case Managers  
  • Addiction Counselors  
  • Nursing Home Administrators  
  • Pastoral Counselors  
  • Chaplains/Clergy  
  • Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners  
  • Mental Health Nurses  
  • Thanatologists  

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