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 or $65 per session if you sign up for all 6 sessions
Cap: 10 people max in each meeting

Format:

  • Welcome & Check-in (10 min)

  • Clinical Concept & Writing Technique (20 min)

  • Experiential Writing & Reflection (25 min)

  • Case Consultation or Peer Dialogue (25 min)

  • Closing Insights & Resources (10 min)


*These consultation meetings are not available for CE credits.

May Topic - Writing Across Time: Unfinished Conversations and Shifting Identity

Date: May 23rd at 8:30-10am PST via Zoom

This session explores how writing can help clients process grief and identity shifts through two key practices:

  • Timeline and narrative writing

    • Explore “who I was before” vs. “who I am now”

    • Reflect on identity changes and values shaped by grief

    • Identify parts of the self or relationship that feel frozen in time

  • Letter-writing to the deceased or symbolically lost

    • Express regrets, unspoken gratitude, anger, or longing

    • Imagine future conversations or unmet needs

Clinical focus includes:

  • When writing helps—and when it may overwhelm

  • Supporting grief linked to trauma or betrayal

  • Encouraging meaning-making without rushing acceptance

Upcoming Sessions

Receive a $10 discount per session if you sign up for all 6 sessions ($60 off)

Month 2 - June 27th: Writing the Relationship — Before, During, After

We’ll use timelines and reflective writing to trace the arc of a relationship—not just the loss. This session invites you to consider how identity, attachment, and shared meaning evolve before, during, and after a death.

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.

Receive a $10 discount per session if you sign up for all 6 sessions ($60 off)

Details

🗓️ First Session: Friday, May 23, 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.