Monthly Group Consultation:
Using Writing as a Grief Tool
A 6-month series of online gatherings for mental health professionals supporting clients through grief and loss.
A Space for Clinicians Who Hold Grief—Theirs and Others’
Grief lives in the body, in memory, and often in the unspoken. Writing can help bring shape to what feels formless. It can regulate, reveal, release, and remember. This 6-month consultation group is designed for clinicians who want to deepen their understanding of grief while exploring the therapeutic potential of writing—for their clients and for themselves.
In each session, we will explore how written expression can be used as a tool for insight, connection, and healing. You’ll gain new ways to integrate writing into your grief work, and you’ll also have space to reflect on your own relationship with loss. Writing is used not only as an intervention, but as a bridge between clinical theory and human experience.
Each session includes clinical application, shared discussion, and personal/clinical writing exercises.
This is not a “writing group” in the traditional sense—it’s a space where clinical wisdom, personal truth, and expressive practice meet.
What to Expect
Duration: 6 Months
Frequency: Monthly Sessions
Meetings via Zoom
Session Length: 90 Minutes
Cost: $75 per session
Cap: 10 people max in each meeting
Format:
Welcome & Check-in (15 min)
Clinical Concept & Writing Technique (30) min)
Case Consultation or Peer Dialogue (30 min)
Closing Insights & Resources (15 min)
*These consultation meetings are not available for CE credits.
June 27th: What’s Your Client’s Storyline? Try a Timeline Map
Timeline maps are a powerful, visual tool therapists can use to help clients trace the landscape of their lives—through losses, transitions, identities, and relationships. More than just a chronological list of events, these maps invite clients to see their experiences laid out across time, making patterns, ruptures, and turning points more accessible and speakable.
In grief and trauma work, timeline mapping can:
Surface hidden or cumulative losses that may not be fully acknowledged
Help clients situate a particular loss within the broader context of their life story
Support narrative integration by connecting memory, emotion, and meaning over time
Offer a grounded alternative to linear models of “stages” or “closure”
Used with intention, timeline maps become more than a worksheet—they become a co-created portrait of survival, adaptation, and ongoing identity.
Upcoming Sessions
Month 3 - July 25th: Unfinished Conversations
Many grieving clients carry unspoken words—regret, love, anger, apology. This session explores how writing letters, dialogues, or imagined exchanges can help clients express the unsaid and renegotiate the bond.
Month 4 - August 22nd: The Unspeakable and the Unwritable
Some griefs defy language—those that are disenfranchised, stigmatized, or ambiguous. Here, we’ll experiment with metaphor, symbol, and visual language to give form to the “unsayable.”
Month 5 - September 26th: Grief in the Therapist’s Chair
How do our personal losses shape the way we show up as clinicians? This month we reflect on moments when clients’ stories have stirred, mirrored, or transformed our own grief experience.
Month 6 - October 24th: Rituals, Meaning, and Integration
As the series comes to a close, we’ll explore how writing can become part of ritual and meaning-making. You’ll be invited to reflect on what you want to carry forward—and what can be laid to rest.
Note: These are not available for CE credits.
Details
🗓️ Next Session: Friday, June 27th, 2025
🕣 Time: 8:30–10:00 AM PST
💻 Where: Online via Zoom
💵 Cost: $75 per session
📅 Ongoing: Every 4th Friday of the month
📌 No CE credits available
Who It's For
This group is open to licensed therapists, pre-licensed associates, counselors, and mental health professionals who:
Support grieving individuals in their clinical practice
Are curious about incorporating reflective or creative writing in their therapeutic approach
Seek a space to process their own professional or personal grief experiences
Value peer dialogue, experiential learning, and depth-oriented consultation
Are drawn to narrative, meaning-making, or expressive arts in healing work
You do not need to consider yourself a “writer” to join this group. The writing exercises are used for exploration and integration—not critique.
We’re Holding a Seat for You
Join a growing community of mental health professionals who believe in showing up—fully, honestly, and together—for the grief work we do. Whether you’re a seasoned grief therapist or new to this terrain, your presence matters.
Let’s hold space for each other, so we can continue holding space for those who need us.
Please note: This consultation group is not approved for continuing education (CE) credits by the NBCC or CAMFT. No CE credit is available for participation.