Robert A. Neimeyer – Grief Therapy Masterclass: Advanced Skills in Working Through Loss

Grief Therapy Training with Robert Neimeyer and Carolyn Ng

Many therapists struggle emotionally and clinically when working with clients grieving traumatic or violent losses. Most lack formal training in grief therapy, despite the universality of loss.

This video series offers powerful tools and demonstrations from grief experts Robert Neimeyer and Carolyn Ng, working with clients who’ve experienced devastating losses — from infant death, murder, and suicide, to long-term spousal loss.

Neimeyer introduces a three-part model addressing areas where grief becomes stuck:

1. The event story (how the person died),

2. The relationship backstory (who the person was),

3. The personal identity (who the griever is now).

Each session blends clinical techniques with compassionate presence, guiding clients to reframe their experiences and rediscover meaning.

You’ll meet seven diverse clients, including:

• A man who lost two children in separate tragedies,

• A mother who lost two triplets and has a third with brain damage,

• An elderly widow after 56 years of marriage,

• A mother whose son was murdered without explanation,

• A military spouse coping with her husband’s suicide,

• A woman still grieving the death of her mother decades later,

• A daughter processing unresolved trauma over her father’s death from COVID.

Through these real cases, therapists will learn to:

• Address stuck points in grief,

• Support clients through “bracing, pacing, and facing”,

• Reconstruct grief narratives for healing,

• Use techniques like visualization, journaling, role-play, and narrative therapy.

This course equips therapists to meet grieving clients with empathy, skill, and clarity, helping them move from sorrow to renewal.