Pathways to Resilience after Suicide Loss: A Restorative Approach to Healing and Posttraumatic Growth
Pathways to Resilience after Suicide Loss: A Restorative Approach to Healing and Posttraumatic Growth
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Educational Goal
Participants will gain competency in working with clients who are grieving after suicide loss.
Description
The path of grief after suicide loss can be uniquely challenging and complicated for those left behind. The bereaved often feel shattered and at a loss as to how to restore their resilience and wellbeing. In this interactive session, we will explore a restorative, trauma and bereavement-informed approach to supporting individuals, children, and families as they navigate the rocky terrain of grief after suicide. Prominent themes of suicide bereavement and the impact of stigma on the grieving process will be addressed. We will look at creative, restorative interventions and mind/body strategies that aim to help the bereaved cope with the interplay of trauma and grief reactions; process their stories of loss, and envision a path toward healing and hope.
Target Audience
- Addiction Professional
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
Presenters
Christine Linnehan, LCPC, BC-DMT, FT is a licensed clinical professional counselor in private practice in Scarborough, Maine specializing in grief, loss, and trauma. She has been a clinical consultant at The Center for Grieving Children in Portland, Maine since 2004. Previously, she worked in a partial hospitalization trauma treatment program and co-founded a Women’s Wellness Center in Portsmouth, NH. Drawing from her training as a board-certified dance/movement therapist, she utilizes mind/body and expressive arts practices in her clinical work designed to promote resilience and well-being. Christine is also certified in Thanatology (FT)® and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy. She is trained in several trauma and bereavement-informed approaches including Restorative Retelling, The Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM)®, TF-CBT, and EMDR. She is active in suicide postvention efforts in Maine and has a special interest in creative approaches to healing after traumatic loss.