The Clinic
Deepen your practice at The Clinic, a series of specialized workshops designed to hone your skills and capacity as a practitioner. Inspired by the focused training methods used in sports clinics, these sessions are facilitated by seasoned practitioners who offer teaching on their modality of focus, bring these concepts to life with a live session with a client volunteer, and hold space for integration through honest discussion and group consultation.
Each clinic will focus on an approach to the work, providing you with advanced techniques, practical tools, and new perspectives to integrate into your work. Whether you’re looking to refine your approach, deepen your capacity to drop into the human experience of this work, or renew your imagination for what’s possible in the in between, these clinics offer a unique opportunity for growth and connection.
What Cannot Be Fixed: A Framework for Working with Grief & Loss
This Clinic will support practitioners who work with any and all manifestations of grief and loss. Shelley Green, a traumatic loss and grief specialist, will articulate a framework for working with grief which supports practitioners in navigating presentations of suffering which cannot be “fixed.” This framework will support practitioners working with the full spectrum of loss experiences: ambiguous/abstract loss (“I didn’t have the parents I needed”) through concrete traumatic loss (unexpected death of a precious loved one). We will discuss important distinctions between pain which can be alleviated vs pain which must be endured. We will discuss the implications of clients’ and practitioners’ cultural orientation and how it informs working with grief and loss. We will discuss the clinical challenges of working with this kind of suffering, as well as develop skills for supporting clients in enduring grief. Whether you “work with grief” or encounter grief in your natural course of work in other areas, this workshop will support you in holding clients in whatever losses they are navigating.
Through this workshop, participants will be able to:
Distinguish between pathological and nonpathological suffering
Develop skills for noticing, working with, and tolerating practitioners’ distress when facing client distress
Develop skills for building client capacity to endure own pain
Container
This is a hybrid offering. We will gather in person at Shelterwood’s home base in Pioneer Square and virtually via Zoom. You’ll receive the link to join the morning of the offering
Exchange
Members — included in monthly membership fee
General Public — $55 with CEUs / $25 without CEUs
Authorization
Participation includes 2 [Professional Roles and Boundaries / Professional Ethics and Law / Health Equity]-applicable continuing education units, if desired. These CEUs are authorized and approved by the NASW Washington State Chapter. Our provider #1975-507. Licensed social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors are eligible.
Shelley Green
PMH-C LMHC
she/her
Hello! I’m Shelley Green, a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and counseling educator in private practice since 2012. In my practice I am a perinatal mental health therapist, and also have a specialist certificate in traumatic grief to support my work with bereaved parents. I work from a distress-tolerance perspective, helping clients to endure a sometimes enormously challenging landscape of reality. In addition to this area of work I have worked in community mental health in a variety of settings.
Learn more Shelley