Training Details

• Date: Thursday, October 22, 2026
• Location: Virtual/Zoom
• Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
• Continuing Education: 2 CEUs approved for Pennsylvania and New York LSWs, LCSWs, LPCs, and LMFTs.
• CEU Requirements: To receive continuing education credit, participants must attend the training and complete both the post-test and training evaluation. A link will be emailed immediately following the session. Both must be submitted within seven (7) business days to receive your CE certificate.

Overview

Grief is a universal human experience, yet many helping professionals receive limited training on how to confidently assess, understand, and support individuals navigating loss.

Helping professionals regularly work with clients experiencing the death of a loved one, cumulative losses, traumatic grief, or significant life transitions while also navigating their own emotional responses.

This interactive training provides a practical, trauma-informed framework for understanding grief across the lifespan while strengthening assessment skills, intervention strategies, and community resource knowledge. Participants will explore how grief presents differently across individuals and cultures, learn approaches that foster meaningful clinical conversations, and leave with practical tools they can immediately integrate into practice.

Training Outline

• Section 1: Understanding Grief
  Explore the many ways grief presents across individuals, families, and communities while building a foundation for grief-informed clinical practice.
• Section 2: Assessment and Initial Intervention
  Develop practical assessment skills and learn strategies for initiating compassionate, effective conversations with grieving clients.
• Section 3: How Do We Look at Grief?
  Examine personal beliefs, clinical perspectives, and cultural influences that shape how grief is understood and supported.
• Section 4: Grief and Community Resources
  Identify community-based supports, referral options, and collaborative resources that strengthen client care beyond the therapy setting.

What You’ll Learn

Participants will:

• Recognize diverse experiences and expressions of grief.
• Strengthen assessment and grief-informed clinical conversations.
• Apply practical intervention strategies to support grieving clients.
• Explore personal and professional perspectives that influence grief work.
• Identify community resources that support individuals and families experiencing loss.

Target Audience

This session is ideal for:

• Social Workers
• Licensed Professional Counselors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Psychologists
• Case Managers
• Healthcare professionals
• Students and other helping professionals interested in strengthening grief-informed practice

About the Facilitator

Gina M. Goth, M.Ed., CAC, LPC is a licensed professional counselor with more than 40 years of experience specializing in trauma, grief, loss, physical and sexual abuse, and suicide postvention. She maintains a private practice in Pittsburgh’s Oakland/Shadyside area and provides consultation, supervision, and professional training throughout the region.

Gina holds a Master of Education from Pennsylvania State University and has completed extensive advanced training in trauma, Gestalt therapy, grief treatment, dementia care, racial equity, and disaster response. She has worked extensively with family members affected by suicide loss and served for five years with the 10.27 Healing Partnership, supporting individuals impacted by the Tree of Life synagogue shooting and subsequent trial.

She provides continuing education through the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work on trauma, grief, loss, and suicide postvention and has served as Co-Chair of the Physical and Behavioral Health Action Team for HEAL PA. Gina also received specialized training through the Israel Trauma Coalition and has completed nationally recognized certificate programs in evidence-based grief treatment and Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. She currently serves on the Area Agency on Aging Advisory Board.

Drawing on more than four decades of clinical practice, consultation, and teaching, Gina brings a thoughtful, compassionate, and deeply practical approach to helping professionals strengthen their confidence in grief-informed care.

Register

Join us for this engaging virtual training to strengthen your knowledge, enhance your clinical confidence, and deepen your ability to support individuals and families navigating grief and loss.