Using Writing as a Grief Tool
A monthly 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)
August 22nd: Letter Writing
This month’s session centers on the use of unsent letters as a powerful and flexible tool in grief therapy. Whether a client is writing to someone who has died, a person they’re estranged from, or to parts of themselves they’ve abandoned or forgotten, letter writing offers a structured way to surface complex emotions and support meaning-making. It invites clients into an intentional space where they can express what was left unsaid—love, anger, regret, forgiveness, or anything in between.
In this training, we’ll explore how to introduce, adapt, and process unsent letter practices within a grief-sensitive framework. You’ll learn:
How to introduce letter writing in a way that feels safe and purposeful
Why this practice can be especially helpful in grief that is complicated, unresolved, or disenfranchised
Ways to hold space for what emerges during and after the writing process
How to tailor this intervention across a range of grief experiences, including anticipatory loss, ambiguous loss, and non-death losses
We’ll explore clinical examples, letter-writing prompts, and reflection strategies you can bring directly into your sessions. This is a chance to expand your toolkit with a practice that is both simple and profoundly effective.
Upcoming Sessions
Month 5 - September 26th: Putting It Together
In September, we’ll reflect on how to help clients make sense of what has surfaced in their grief journey so far—memories, regrets, identities, and relationships. You’ll learn clinical strategies for weaving narrative threads, recognizing moments of shift or insight, and supporting clients as they carry their grief forward.
Month 6 - October 24th: Special Cases
Grief is never one-size-fits-all. October’s session focuses on the complexities that can arise in grief. Therapists will deepen their understanding of how to validate and hold space for grief experiences that are layered, stigmatized, or socially invisible, and will leave with tools for navigating these cases with nuance and care.
Details
🗓️ Next Session: Friday, August 22nd, 2025
🕣 Time: 8:30–10:00 AM PST
💻 Where: Online via Zoom
💵 Cost: $75 per session
📅 Ongoing: Every 4th Friday of the month
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.