Events

Past Event

Practice-Focused Training in PGDT – June 2025

June 6, 2025 - June 7, 2025
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
America/New_York
Online Event

In this two-day workshop, you will learn how to implement a short-term, evidence-based treatment using active empathic listening, brief personalized interventions, companionship alliance, and a series of targeted procedures to help clients:

  • understand and accept grief and optimize their ability to manage emotional pain
  • think about the future
  • strengthen relationships with loved ones and others in their community
  • tell the story of the death
  • live with reminders of the loss
  • connect with memories of the deceased

Clips from actual treatment sessions are used to highlight core procedures.

Presenters

Bonnie Gorscak, PhD & Kim Gordon, LMHC

Learn more about our workshop faculty: https://prolongedgrief.columbia.edu/about-us/our-team

Target Audience

Licensed mental health professionals who are actively working with clients and want to use PGDT to help bereaved people. This includes psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, and nurses.

If you are not licensed to provide therapy or are a health or mental health program graduate student, contact us at [email protected] before registering to determine if this workshop is an appropriate fit. 

Level of Programming 

Intermediate to Advanced

Fee

$487.50 – Registration includes attendance to the workshop, certificate of completion**, and complimentary addition of PGDT Treatment Manual, Therapist Forms, Client Forms and Handouts, and PGD Assessment Measures (valued at $85)

Contact Information

Center for Prolonged Grief