From Unthinkable Loss to Unbreakable Resilience

In Keep Breathing, Dr. Kate Truitt, a renowned psychologist, applied neuroscientist, and trauma expert, shares her story of unimaginable loss, trauma, and ultimately, healing. Faced with the sudden gut-wrenching death of her fiancé just one week before their wedding day, Kate found her world shattered, catapulting her into a deep void of profound grief, trauma, shock, and guilt.

Part memoir and part scientific exploration, Keep Breathing uses Kate's own account as a case study to illuminate the common experiences in our human brain – deep love and devastating loss, exhilaration and pain, life and death – that have the power to both derail our lives and ignite us to rebuild, heal, and grow. Her deeply personal loss sheds light on the human spirit's extraordinary ability to persevere and thrive in the face of suffering – providing readers with a roadmap to navigate their own paths to healing and self-discovery. With its raw yet warm candor, Kate's brave storytelling exemplifies what it means to truly come back to ourselves.

Join Dr. Truitt for this 12-hour workshop filled with demonstrations, guided practices, skill building, hands-on strategies and more!

Her interactive teaching style and ability to break down the science of trauma while intertwining it with heartfelt storytelling and case examples will be your guidebook for navigating traumatic grief.

PLUS, along with these transformative treatment techniques, you'll get the opportunity to earn your Certified Grief Informed Professional (CGIP) certification through Evergreen Certifications. Professional standards apply.

Don't miss this opportunity to enrich your practice with cutting-edge, neuroscience-based interventions.

Register Today!

Grief Overview: The Types of Grief & Implications for Treatment 

• Types of Grief and Their Implications for Treatment
• Bereavement – Life Loss
• Ambiguous Grief
• Disenfranchised Grief
• Challenging Traditional Assumptions About Grief Progression
• Meaning-making: The critical 6th Stage of Grief
• How Meaning-making is a Protective Factor for Grief Clients
• Normalizing What Feels Abnormal for Clients in Grief
• Grief Counseling vs. Grief Therapy
• Scope of Practice
• Ethical Considerations
• Special Considerations When Working with the Terminally Ill, Minors, and Families

Grief and Loss Intake and Assessment Process 

• Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan
• Integrate Multicultural and Spiritual Considerations
• Public vs. Private Mourning
• Impact of the Family System & Community
• Personal Development
• Comorbid Symptom Presentations
• Depression vs. Grief
• PTSD and Prolonged Grief Disorder
• Assess for Complicated Grief, Depression, PTSD, and Suicidality

Neuroscience of Traumatic Grief & Recovery: Amygdala, Prefrontal Cortex, and Beyond 

• The Brain's Response to Grief: Amygdala, Prefrontal Cortex, and Beyond
• Cognitive, Emotional, Somatic and Physiological Responses to Loss
• The Role of Separation Anxiety in the Grieving Process
• Dr. Mary O'Connor's Gone-But-Also-Ever-Lasting Model

Partnering with the Brain through Harnessing Neuroplasticity 

• The Role of Psychosensory Interventions for Neuroplastic Engagement
• Review of the Literature:
• Tactile Mechanisms of Action: Butterfly Taps/Therapeutic Touch/Tapping
• Auditory and Visual Mechanisms of Action: Bilateral Stimulation
• Demonstration and Practice Session: Techniques for Practitioner Self-Care
• The Sigh Breath Practice Plus Psychosensory Engagement
• Ethical Issues and Considerations - Integrate Psychosensory Interventions into Clinical Practice

Treating Traumatic Encodings in Prolonged Grief Disorder/Traumatic Grief 

• Trauma-Informed Protocols for Psychosensory Trauma-Reprocessing
• Review of the Literature – Tapping, Adapted Information Processing Model, Thought Field Therapy, etc.
• Toolkit of Psychosensory Interventions Adapted for Prolonged Grief Disorder/Traumatic Grief
• Protocol and Targeting Sequence for Trauma Reprocessing in Prolonged Grief Disorder
• Protocol and Targeting Sequences for the Development of Cognitive Resilience and Meaning-making in the Treatment of Grief and Bereavement

Survivor's Guilt Through a Neuropsychological Perspective with Clinical Application 

• Understand Survivor's Guilt: Context and Manifestations
• Neuropsychological Perspective on Survivor's Guilt
• Clinical Techniques for Addressing Survivor's Guilt
• Navigate Regret and Resentment to Find Forgiveness

Secondary Grief & Exploring the Ripple Effects of Loss 

• Explore the Ripple Effects: The Concept of Secondary Loss
• Identify and Therapeutic Interventions for Secondary Losses in Therapy
• Role Changes and Identity Shifts Post-Loss

Healing Ambiguous Loss with Neuroplasticity 

• The Impact of Ambiguous Loss
• Family Systems
• Frozen Grief
• Specialized Neuroscience-Based Interventions for the Treatment of Ambiguous Grief

Thriving After Loss: Posttraumatic Growth, Resilience, and Recovery 

• Beyond Survival: Define and Facilite Posttraumatic Growth
• Empowerment in Grief: Tools for Building Strength and Resilience
• The Rainbow of Grief Exercise for Reconciliation and Healing

Self-Care for the Grief Professional 

• Strategies for Preventing Compassion Fatigue and Burnout
• Personal Self-Havening Practice
• The Resilient Brain Care Program