Trainings from Debi Jenkins Frankle (CE Hours Available)

Every Client Carries Grief: A Foundational Training for Clinicians

This evidence-informed training is designed to help therapists build confidence and clinical clarity in grief work. You’ll learn to recognize and differentiate types of grief, apply contemporary grief theory beyond outdated stage models, understand grief’s impact across emotional, cognitive, physical, social, and spiritual domains, and work skillfully with unfinished business, regret, and relational pain—without pushing closure.
6/13/26 at 8am-12pm PT. 4 CE hours. $175.

Traumatic Grief in Practice: Tools for Complex Loss

An online training for mental health clinicians exploring how trauma, stigma, and the body shape grief after complex losses—including suicide, substance-related death, and violence. Learn to differentiate grief from trauma, recognize disenfranchised and ambiguous loss, and apply targeted, clinically sound interventions that support both nervous system regulation and meaning-making.
8/1/26 at 8am-12pm PT. 4 CE hours. $175.

Estrangement Grief Self-Paced Course

This training examines estrangement, grief, and family dynamics through case studies. Participants will explore therapeutic strategies and practical tools like narrative exercises, timeline mapping, and expressive frameworks to support healing.
Self-paced: Access sent immediately to your email. 3 CE hours. $150.

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Other Offerings

Individual Virtual Consultations

Consult with Debi Frankle, an expert in grief psychology, with over 25 years of experience in the field to deepen your understanding of grief and make a meaningful difference in the lives of your clients.

Grief Skills Training for Private Practice Groups

Online grief skills trainings to mental health clinicians in group practices designed to bridge the gap in your training, ensuring you are fully prepared to support clients in their most vulnerable moments.

Every Client Carries Grief: A Foundational Training for Clinicians

Cost: $175
4 CE Hours
Self-paced: Immediate access sent via email.

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Every Client Carries Grief: A Foundational Training for Clinicians is designed for mental health professionals seeking a deeper, more practical understanding of how grief shows up in clinical work. This course explores the wide range of grief experiences, integrates contemporary grief theories into case conceptualization and treatment planning, and equips clinicians to identify grief-related symptoms across multiple areas of functioning, while offering practical tools and resources to support effective, meaningful care.

Traumatic Grief in Practice: Tools for Complex Loss

Cost: $175
4 CE Hours Available
Self-paced: Immediate access sent via email

Traumatic Grief in Practice: Tools for Complex Loss is a clinically rich training designed to help therapists navigate the intersection of grief and trauma in complex loss, including stigmatized and disenfranchised experiences. Participants will gain practical tools to assess what clients are experiencing in the moment and respond with interventions that align with both emotional and physiological needs.

Estrangement Grief Self-paced Training

Cost: $150
3 CE Hours
Self-paced training: Immediate access sent via email

The Estrangement Grief Training is a clinically grounded course that explores estrangement as a complex and often overlooked aspect of grief, with a focus on its impact on loss and family dynamics. Participants will gain practical tools—including narrative and timeline techniques—to help clients process unresolved emotions, navigate boundaries, and move toward meaningful healing.

Individual Consultations

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Are you a dedicated therapist looking to enhance your understanding of grief and provide even more compassionate support to your clients? Look no further than our Virtual Individual Consultations for Therapists. With decades of experience in the field of grief counseling and a commitment to helping therapists like you excel, Debi is your trusted guide on your journey toward mastery.

Does not qualify for CE credit

Grief Skills Training for Private Practice Groups

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Unresolved grief is one of the top 3 reasons people are seeking help these days. I provide online grief skills trainings to mental health clinicians in group practices. My program is designed to bridge the gap in your training, ensuring you are fully prepared to support clients in their most vulnerable moments.

May qualify for CE credit

Continuing education

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Counselors: Private Practice Grief has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7071. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Private Practice Grief is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

  • Licensed in Another State: Private Practice Grief has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP) #7071, so all of our workshops should satisfy your CE requirements, but please check your state rules regarding live webinars vs. live workshops.

Social Workers: The Estrangement Grief in Families workshop has been approved for 3 CE hours, Every Client Carries Grief: A Foundational Training for Clinicians has been approved for 4 CE hours, and Traumatic Grief in Practice: Tools for Complex Loss has been approved for 4 CE hours by the CAMFT (Approval # 134631).

  • Licensed in California: The Estrangement Grief in Families workshop has been approved for 3 CE hours, Every Client Carries Grief: A Foundational Training for Clinicians has been approved for 4 CE hours, and Traumatic Grief in Practice: Tools for Complex Loss has been approved for 4 CE hours by the CAMFT (Approval # 134631). Now in California, Live Webinars count the same as a Live In-Person Workshop.

  • Licensed in Another State: Please see the red section below.*

Marriage & Family Therapists:

  • Licensed in California: The Estrangement Grief in Families workshop has been approved for 3 CE hours,Every Client Carries Grief: A Foundational Training for Clinicians has been approved for 4 CE hours, and Traumatic Grief in Practice: Tools for Complex Loss has been approved for 4 CE hours by the CAMFT (Approval # 134631). Live Webinars count the same as a Live In-Person Workshop.

  • Licensed in Another State: Please see the red section below.*

*Licensed in another state as a social worker or marriage & family therapist? Many states will accept CEs for Social Workers & MFTs if that workshop has approved status from another state, which this one has been CAMFT (Approval # 134631). Additionally, we have national approval for all our courses through NBCC. Many states accept NBCC approved workshops, but please check your specific state rules & regulations.