Ambiguous Loss in Narcissistic Relationships: Clinical Skills to Process the Unresolved Grief of Estrangement – Amy Marlow-MaCoy

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Grief and loss hit clients recovering from narcissistic abuse on multiple levels. From grieving a childhood of abuse and neglect to mourning the loss of the rosy-colored glasses that allowed victims to stay in a cycle of abuse — grief echoes through all corners of the adult child of a narcissist’s life. In this session, you’ll view narcissistic abuse expert and best-selling author Amy Marlow-MacCoy, LPC as she gives you the skills and tools you need to recognize grief in a client’s anger, help them identify the losses of the past, present, and future, and come to terms with the ambiguity of grieving a person or relationship that may never be peacefully resolved.

Speaker

Amy Marlow-MaCoy, LPC 
Amy Marlow-MaCoy, LPC, focuses her practice on treating complex and developmental trauma in adults raised in narcissistic, emotionally immature, and toxic families of origin.

She is the author of the Amazon best-selling book The Gaslighting Recovery Workbook: Healing from Emotional Abuse (Callisto Media, 2020), a workbook designed to help individuals identify, understand, and begin to heal from emotional trauma and abuse caused by gaslighting in interpersonal relationships.

Amy has been trained in Level 1 Internal Family Systems therapy. She also provides supervision to LPC candidates and regularly consults with other clinicians regarding treatment of adult children of narcissists. She earned her Mast of Education in counseling psychology degree from Temple University.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Amy Marlow-MaCoy maintains a private practice. She receives royalties as a published author and receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Amy Marlow-MaCoy is a member of the American Counseling Association.

Objectives

1. Differentiate ambiguous loss from other losses and identify relevant clinical implications.
2. Apply the theory of ambiguous loss to clinical cases involving emotional abuse and estrangement.
3. Support clients in exploring all dimensions of grief work, coping with past, present and future losses.
4. Analyze how guilt and shame can complicate grief, particularly when a client’s estranged loved one dies and they are unable to achieve resolution.
5. Employ a past, present and future perspective to treatment to help clients manage the pain of the past, find closure, and envisions a future after the “death” of a relationship.
6. Apply evidence-informed techniques for promoting resilience in circumstances of ambiguous loss in the context of estrangement or the end of abusive relationships.

Outline

• Ambiguous losses in the context of abuse
• The grief of the past – the childhood that happened and the one that didn’t
• Grieving the present and future – helping clients come to terms with what is
• Clinical skills to process grief that occurs in relationships that end or change due to estrangement
• Risks, limitations and challenges

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Nurse Practioners
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Other Mental Health Professions

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