In conversations with thousands of mental health professionals over the past 35 years, they tell of a common thread that affects most of their clients. It is the accumulation of unresolved grief that limits and restricts their clients from being successful in many life areas—including their careers and their romantic relationships.

Starting with the assumption that unresolved Grief is the underlying and overarching cause of unhappiness in many clients, here are five positive benefits of adding the Grief Recovery Certification specialization ang grief training to your practice.

1. Completing underlying grief helps clients see themselves more honestly, leading to better results in therapy.

The baggage of the past tends to clog our vision of ourselves and others. The freedom to see events and feelings as they really were—though sometimes painful—opens the pathway to emotional completion.

2. In a crisis we go back to old beliefs and old behavior. Effective Grief Recovery coupled with therapy makes changes to new beliefs and new behavior possible.

This is similar to the famous, “Doing the same old things and expecting a different result.” It’s nearly impossible to do anything new and better unless you complete your relationship to your old ways.

3. Dealing with past grief allows clients to re-build a sense of

Losses of trust, safety, and control are some of the major by-products of unresolved grief. Since those losses don’t repair themselves, it’s important to take the actions that help restore what has been lost.

4.Completion of old relationship losses ensure that clients don’t sabotage future relationships.

Nothing guarantees failure of new relationships more than dragging the unfinished business of each former relationship into the next. Proof: 1^st marriage divorce rate = 50%; 2^nd = 67%; 3^rd = 73%.

5. Clients will be much better prepared to deal with life’s inevitable losses as and when they happen.

When we don’t know how to deal with past losses, we won’t know how to deal with future losses. Worse than not knowing, we drag the wrong tools we acquired about dealing with grief and loss with us. Ending the cycle of non-knowing is life-affirming for your clients.

A Grief Recovery Specialty Helps You Attract Clients

Since everyone experiences losses of varying kinds and emotional intensity, grief is a universal topic with which any potential client can identify.

Therapists and Social Workers who have been trained in the Grief Recovery Method can take their clients through the actions of Grief Recovery, and then utilize the skills of their profession to help their clients make the life and behavior changes they seek.

Some people may think we believe that Grief Recovery is the be-all, end-all answer to everything, but that’s not the way we see it. We believe that dealing effectively with grief is the best new beginning you can give your client.

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