This course isn't just about renewing your certification — it's about advancing your skills. You'll gain powerful, up-to-date techniques that will elevate your practice and provide even more value to your clients. It's the easiest, most cost-effective way to enhance your grief work skills while ensuring you stay current in the field. Plus, with 2 full years before you need to recertify, you can focus on doing what you do best—helping your clients heal—without worrying about certification renewal.
One Course. One Low Price.
Two Whole Years of Re-Certification as a CGP or CACGS.
Two Whole Years of Re-Certification as a CGP or CACGS.
Here's what you'll
get:
✓ Earn up to 13.5 CE
Hours
✓ FREE certification
renewal fees
✓ 2 YEARS of
recertification
✓ Unlimited access to
videos and materials
$669.94
Value
Just $199.99!
Certification isn’t just a credential — it’s a promise to clients. A promise that you have the most effective, up-to-date tools to guide them through their grief journey.
And we believe keeping that promise shouldn't be a hassle.
That's why we created the Grief Certification Renewal Course — renew your certification for 2 years while mastering new, evidence-based grief support skills — all in one simple, affordable package.
Here’s what you get when you register:
- Over 13 Hours of Best-Selling Self-Paced Training: Dive deep into the most current grief techniques, research advances, and more!
- Top approaches including IFS Therapy, EMDR, Somatic Therapy, and Narrative Therapy
- Top interventions for the most pressing issues in grief today: Get tools for traumatic grief, anticipatory grief, disenfranchised grief, and more.
- Streamlined Re-Certification Process with No Additional Costs: No hidden fees, just finish the training, complete the post-test, and follow the simple directions.
Taught by a team of world-leading grief experts, including Dr. Kate Truitt, Dr. Erica Sirrine, and Dr. Christina Zampitella, this course is tailored for grief professionals who want to refresh their knowledge and add new, evidence-based techniques to their practice.
Normally, the combined cost of the training and recertification fees would be valued at over $600, but you can get both for just $199.99.
Register now and renew your certification the simple way — no hidden fees, no extra hassle, just more tools to help your clients heal.
Grief Certification Renewal Course
Get Recertified and Stay Current with Today's Best Grief Care Practices$669.94 Value
Just $199.99 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Plus, earn up to 13.5 CE Hours
included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Here's What People Are Saying About This Training
This is so much than a 'meet your requirements' CE course. This is a compilation of some of our very best grief trainings. The kind that add real value to your work, inspire you, and help you to make a bigger impact than ever before.
"Great course and a definite asset to my professional career."
"What I've been looking for, tangible strategies to help people live through and past grief."
"Amazing. I felt engaged the whole time."
"I absolutely loved this training!"
"I learned a great deal and plan to use what I've learned in my practice."
"I did not realize how much I needed this course!"
"Extremely inspirational."
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Not only will you leave this course with everything you need to get recertified as a Certified Grief Informed Professional (CGP) or a Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist (CAGCS) for 2 full years…
Dr. Erica Sirrine
Navigating Tomorrow's Loss:
Anticipatory Grief Training for Mental Health Practitioners
Dr. Erica Sirrine
In this top-rated session, you'll get the insight and tools you need to support individuals and families as they navigate the unique pain of grieving what hasn't yet been lost. Learn to identify anticipatory grief, guide clients through shifting roles and emotions, and build resilience in the midst of uncertainty. Grounded in the latest grief research and therapeutic best practices.
Quick Outline
Dr. Erica Sirrine
In this top-rated session, you'll get the insight and tools you need to support individuals and families as they navigate the unique pain of grieving what hasn't yet been lost. Learn to identify anticipatory grief, guide clients through shifting roles and emotions, and build resilience in the midst of uncertainty. Grounded in the latest grief research and therapeutic best practices.
Quick Outline
- Anticipatory and preparatory grief: key concepts and applications
- How anticipatory grief reactions look across age groups
- How to engage in sensitive conversations about anticipatory grief
- Tips for discussing end-of-life matters
- Preparing clients for a return to normal life
- Legacy-building interventions and meaning-making
Tiffani Dilworth, LCPC, CAGCS, FT
Disenfranchised Grief: Supporting
Diverse Cultures and Immigrants
Tiffani Dilworth, LCPC, CAGCS, FT
When it comes to treating grief in clients from diverse cultures, the last thing you want to do is minimize their experiences. Join Tiffani Dilworth, LCPC, CAGCS, FT, for this crucial session that explores how culture, migration, and identity shape the grieving process. You'll gain practical strategies for honoring cultural mourning practices, addressing stigma, and creating inclusive spaces where every client's grief is seen, validated, and supported with cultural humility and clinical skill.
Quick Outline
Tiffani Dilworth, LCPC, CAGCS, FT
When it comes to treating grief in clients from diverse cultures, the last thing you want to do is minimize their experiences. Join Tiffani Dilworth, LCPC, CAGCS, FT, for this crucial session that explores how culture, migration, and identity shape the grieving process. You'll gain practical strategies for honoring cultural mourning practices, addressing stigma, and creating inclusive spaces where every client's grief is seen, validated, and supported with cultural humility and clinical skill.
Quick Outline
- Ways subcultures experience Disenfranchised Grief
- Immigrant experiences that can lead to Migratory Grief
- Immigrants vs. refugees
- Acculturation
- Migration Trauma
- Validating language to combat Disenfranchised Grief
Dr. Kate Truitt
Traumatic Grief: Neuroscience-Based
Therapy Tools for Transforming Loss into Meaningful Recovery
Dr. Kate Truitt
When loss is sudden, violent, or deeply traumatic, the grief that follows isn't just emotional — it's neurological. But where do we start? How do we help clients in such complex, deep grief? Join Dr. Kate Truitt, neuroscientist and clinical psychologist, for a guided exploration into the science of loss, the neurological foundations of traumatic grief that can often override healing — and the strategies you can use to get your clients on a path toward healing and growth.
Quick Outline
Dr. Kate Truitt
When loss is sudden, violent, or deeply traumatic, the grief that follows isn't just emotional — it's neurological. But where do we start? How do we help clients in such complex, deep grief? Join Dr. Kate Truitt, neuroscientist and clinical psychologist, for a guided exploration into the science of loss, the neurological foundations of traumatic grief that can often override healing — and the strategies you can use to get your clients on a path toward healing and growth.
Quick Outline
- Challenging traditional assumptions about grief progression
- Neuroscience of Traumatic Grief: Amygdala, Prefrontal Cortex, and Beyond
- Grief compared to mourning: neurological underpinnings and external expressions
- Self-Havening: The Science of Mindful Touch and Emotional Relief
- Simple Self-Havening techniques to use right away
- How to work with survivor's guilt, resentment, and regret
- Role and identity shifts, building support systems, and more
- Tools to use: narrative reconstruction, reflective storytelling and memory anchoring
Dr. Christina Zampitella
Complicated Spiritual Grief
Dr. Christina Zampitella
Faith, religion, and spirituality can be a supportive and comforting resource following the loss of anyone or anything that leaves a sense of deprivation and yearning. But for some people, their relationships to a higher power and/or spiritual community are painfully wounded, leading to spiritual crisis. In this session, you'll learn what you can do to help clients rebuild trust, restore connection, and find renewed meaning within—or beyond—their faith or spiritual framework.
Quick Outline
Dr. Christina Zampitella
Faith, religion, and spirituality can be a supportive and comforting resource following the loss of anyone or anything that leaves a sense of deprivation and yearning. But for some people, their relationships to a higher power and/or spiritual community are painfully wounded, leading to spiritual crisis. In this session, you'll learn what you can do to help clients rebuild trust, restore connection, and find renewed meaning within—or beyond—their faith or spiritual framework.
Quick Outline
- Clarifying how religion and spirituality differ
- How complicated spiritual grief is experienced and expressed
- The impact on one's connection to a higher power or meaning
- How one's spiritual community may exacerbate complex spiritual grief
- Complex spiritual grief and the impact on religious practices
- How to help clients who are struggling with religious and spiritual crises
Rita Schulte, LPCE
Surviving Suicide Loss: Making Your
Way Beyond the Ruins
Rita Schulte, LPC
In this compassionate and deeply human training, Rita Schulte, LPC, draws on both professional expertise and personal experience to guide you through the complex terrain of suicide grief. Learn how to help clients navigate guilt, anger, and unanswered questions while fostering resilience, meaning-making, and post-traumatic growth. Equip yourself with the tools to walk beside survivors as they rebuild life—one step, one breath, one moment at a time.
Quick Outline
Rita Schulte, LPC
In this compassionate and deeply human training, Rita Schulte, LPC, draws on both professional expertise and personal experience to guide you through the complex terrain of suicide grief. Learn how to help clients navigate guilt, anger, and unanswered questions while fostering resilience, meaning-making, and post-traumatic growth. Equip yourself with the tools to walk beside survivors as they rebuild life—one step, one breath, one moment at a time.
Quick Outline
- The crisis of belief & existential shattering
- Making meaning and the importance of “why”
- The neurobiology of the traumatized brain for clinicians
- Assessment strategies for complex grief
- Tools for managing guilt
- Expressive and somatic interventions
Dr. Erica Sirrine
Forever in My Heart: Expressions of
Continuing Bonds in Childhood and Adolescent Grief
Dr. Erica Sirrine
Children and teens don't just "move on" after loss—they need to find ways to stay connected. In this session, Dr. Erica Sirrine explores how continuing bonds can promote healing and healthy development in young clients. Learn practical, evidence-based interventions to help children express ongoing love, honor memories, and integrate their loss into a meaningful life story.
Quick Outline
Dr. Erica Sirrine
Children and teens don't just "move on" after loss—they need to find ways to stay connected. In this session, Dr. Erica Sirrine explores how continuing bonds can promote healing and healthy development in young clients. Learn practical, evidence-based interventions to help children express ongoing love, honor memories, and integrate their loss into a meaningful life story.
Quick Outline
- Continuing bonds' relevance to childhood and adolescent bereavement
- Using attachment theory to assess continuing bonds in your clients
- How continuing bonds change over time
- Commonly expressed continuing bonds
- Intervention strategies that support the establishment of healthy continuing bonds
Grief Certification Renewal Course
Get Recertified and Stay Current with Today's Best Grief Care Practices$669.94 Value
Just $199.99 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Plus, earn up to 13.5 CE Hours
included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
FREE Re-certification with This
Course
That's Right, There's No Additional Fees! Here's Your Next Steps...
- Step 1: Watch your email for your order confirmation and get instant access to the video training.
- Step 2: Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You'll have unlimited access to all course videos and materials online.
- Step 3: Complete the post-tests and evaluations.
- Step 4: Follow the simple steps on screen, submit the Certification Questionnaire, and get re-certified for 2 FULL YEARS* as a Certified Grief Informed Professional (CGP) or a Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist (CAGCS)
That's it! No hidden
fees. No catch. Just re-certification made EASY.
Click here to learn more about GCP renewal
Click here to learn more about CAGCS renewal
Your World-Class Grief Training Instructors
You're not just learning… you're learning from some of the best in the field.
Dr. Erica Sirrine
Erica H Sirrine, PhD, LCSW, FT, currently serves as the director of social work at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. She is a licensed clinical social worker with over two decades of experience in the field of death, dying, and bereavement who has been awarded the distinction of Fellow in Thanatology by the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Dr. Sirrine has conducted and published research on grief and bereavement, and is the author of Sammy's Story, an anticipatory grief counseling book for young children experiencing the serious illness of a parent. Dr. Sirrine has extensive expertise providing individual and group therapy to children, adolescents, adults, and families experiencing illness and loss. She has implemented numerous interventions and programs aimed at improving the emotional health of clients. Dr. Sirrine frequently presents seminars on bereavement and loss throughout the United States and is known for her interactive and engaging workshops.
Click here for information about Erica H Sirrine
Click here for information about Erica H Sirrine
Tiffani Dilworth LPC, CAGCS, FT
Tiffani Dilworth, LPC, CAGCS, FT, is a successful psychotherapist, author, and sought-after speaker on grief-related topics. She's a Fellow in Thanatology and a Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist who's worked with various organizations, schools, universities, and corporations across the globe to bring awareness to the grieving process and to teach countless people how to live alongside their grief. 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 book 11 Tools to Help Manage the Aftermath of Trauma and Types of Grief, and is the host of the Managing My Grief podcast.
Click here for information about Tiffani Dilworth
Click here for information about Tiffani Dilworth
Kate Truitt, PhD
Kate Truitt, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, applied neuroscientist, expert in trauma, stress, and resilience, and international bestselling author. 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 the BBC and Today, and speaking at prestigious platforms like the United Nations and the United States Department of Defense. 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.
Click here for information about Kate Truitt
Click here for information about Kate Truitt
Christina Zampitella, PsyD, FT
Christina Zampitella, PsyD, FT, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a Fellow of Thanatology through the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC). She is the founder and owner of The Center for Grief and Trauma Therapy, co-owner and Director of Clinical Services at Integrative Psychology Group, and a professional speaker. She teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels in psychology programs at several universities, focusing her courses and publications on death, loss, grief, and trauma. She served as the chair for the Continuing Education Committee for the San Diego Psychological Association from 2007-2009 and the Delaware Psychological Association from 2018-1019. Dr. Zampitella specializes in death, loss, bereavement, integrative psychology, and nature-based therapy. She is the former resident psychologist on Fox 5 News in San Diego and often appeared on NBC News in California and Philadelphia. She has been featured in Elle magazine, BuzzFeed, Washington Post, and The Huffington Post.
Click here for information about Christina Zampitella
Click here for information about Christina Zampitella
Rita Schulte, LPC
Rita Schulte, LPC, is a licensed professional board-certified counselor. 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 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.
Click here for information about Rita Schulte
Click here for information about Rita Schulte
Frequently Asked Questions
No. While this course fulfills renewal requirements for certified professionals, it's also open to anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of grief and loss. Even if you're not renewing a certification, you'll gain up-to-date tools, research, and interventions to strengthen your grief care practice.
Once enrolled, you will have unlimited access to the course materials. You can revisit the training as many times as you like, whenever it fits your schedule.
Yes! The training is completely self-paced and accessible online 24/7 — so you can complete it on your schedule and revisit materials anytime.
It's simple! After completing the training, you just need to complete a post-test and follow the straightforward steps to submit for recertification. No complicated paperwork, no hidden fees — just an easy, streamlined process to get recertified.
Grief Certification Renewal Course
Get Recertified and Stay Current with Today's Best Grief Care Practices$669.94 Value
Just $199.99 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Plus, earn up to 13.5 CE Hours
included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
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