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Exploring the Essential Features of “Claire Bidwell Smith – Mother Loss: Interventions for Clients with Relationships from Unbreakable to Fractured”
Speaker: Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Format: Audio and Video
Copyright: Apr 14, 2023
Media Type: Digital Seminar
Description
From clients who’ve lost the biggest source of support in their lives, to those with broken maternal bonding from neglect, abuse, or abandonment, mother loss affects clients’ sense of identity, relationships, and overall sense of place in the world. In this session, view therapist and best-selling author Claire Bidwell Smith as she combines her personal experience of losing her mother as a teenager with almost two decades of working closely with this population to give you clinical tools and interventions you need to help clients feel whole, restore their sense of worth, and heal.
Speaker
Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC
Recognized as one of today’s foremost experts on grief, Claire Bidwell Smith is a licensed therapist, international speaker, and the author of five books published in 22 countries. Led by her own experience in grief and fueled by her work in hospice and private practice, Claire strives to provide support for all kinds of people experiencing all kinds of loss.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Claire Bidwell Smith maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Conscious Grieving Inc. She receives royalties as a published author. Claire Bidwell Smith receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Claire Bidwell Smith is a board member of The End Well Foundation.
Objectives
- Analyze how estrangement can complicated the grieving process for clients and identify associated clinical implications.
- Utilize narrative strategies to support clients in managing reactivated grief years or decades after a loss.
- Apply mindfulness interventions to help clients manage health anxiety that can emerge after losing their mother.
Outline
- How losing a mother impacts attachment, identity and sense of place in the world
- What most therapists miss
- How estrangement complicates grief
- Practical narrative strategies for working with reactivated “old” grief
- Imposter syndrome in women who’ve experienced mother loss
- Mindfulness interventions for health anxiety and more
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Nurse Practioners
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professions
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