Grief Counselling Training
Created for Mental Health Professionals addressing grief, our grief counselling training courses are designed to deepen your understanding of the complexities of loss to help you further support your clients through their grief.
Our pre-recorded Grief Counselling Training provides flexible, on-demand access to advanced training sessions, allowing you to engage at your own pace and fit them into your professional schedule. Each course includes:
- 2 – 2.5 hours of pre-recorded sessions to learn at your own pace
- Free grief counselling resources including handouts and meditations
- One year online access
Course pricing ranges from £59.99 – £74.99
Included FREE with our training courses…
“The toolkit is a collection of the most relevant psychologically informed resources for bereavement, so I would highly recommend other psychologists and therapists make use of these too.”
– Dr Emily Shaw, Clinical Psychologist
“She was so passionate about her work… which made learning from her interesting.” – Training Delegate
Dr. Erin Hope Thompson MBE, Founder and Director of The Loss Foundation, leads the content creation and delivery of our bereavement training.
As a Clinical Psychologist, she has extensive experience across the NHS, private, and third sectors. In 2022, Dr. Thompson was awarded an MBE for her services to bereaved families.
Grief Counselling Courses
Formulating Grief – Psychological Models
Price: £79.99 Sale price: £59.99
6 Videos – 2 Hours | 4 Resources | One year online access
Learn how to use a range of psychological models in working with bereavement and supporting grief.
Chapter 1: Introduction to webinar and grief
Chapter 2: Anticipatory Grief
Chapter 3: Psychological models
Chapter 4: Case studies
Chapter 5: Continuing the Bond
Chapter 6: What support is recommended?
+ Workshop Resources
Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) in Grief Work
Price: £104.99 Sale price: £74.99
9 Videos – 2.5 Hours | 3 Resources | One year online access
Learn about embracing CFT in supporting people who are grieving, covering: theory, exercises and what the evidence tells us is helpful in supporting grief with compassion.
Chapter 1: Introduction to webinar
Chapter 2: Introducing Compassion Focused Therapy
Chapter 3: Why use CFT in grief?
Chapter 4: Self-compassion model and formulation
Chapter 5: Compassionate Reasoning / Thinking
Chapter 6: Compassionate Attention
Chapter 7: Compassionate Imagery
Chapter 8: Compassionate Behaviour
Chapter 9: When to use compassion in grief work?
+ Workshop Resources
Meet Your Grief Counselling Course Leader
Dr. Erin Hope Thompson MBE, Director of The Loss Foundation, the UK’s national cancer-loss charity, led the design of our Grief Counselling Training and Handouts.
After founding the charity in response to the lack of support following her father’s death, Erin was awarded an MBE in October 2023 for her outstanding contributions to bereaved families.
Grief Counselling Course Resources
Included FREE with the above bereavement training courses…
Grief Workbook
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£10.00
Your purchase will allow someone to attend an Online Grief Support Group with The Loss Foundation, the UK’s dedicated cancer bereavement charity. Thank you ❤️
“This group has given me more relief, release, and comfort than anything else since my wife passed away” – Support Group Attendee
Our comprehensive Grief Counselling Handouts, developed by Clinical Psychologists, will support you in guiding clients through the complexities of grief.
- Included FREE with our grief counselling courses.
- Practical, evidence-based tools to help clients navigate their emotions.
- Empower your clients to reclaim a sense of hope and control as they process their grief.
- Includes 7 bonus audio meditations designed to enhance self-compassion and emotional regulation.
📝13 Grief Worksheets
A Home for Grief: Create a mental space to process your grief.
Coping Tools: Reflect on your coping methods + support networks.
Explore Your Identity After Loss: Understand your identity changes.
Healing Goals: Set personalised healing objectives.
Letters to Your Loved One: For processing emotions.
Taking it Day by Day: Small steps + daily coping strategies.
The Ball of Grief: Imagine grief as a tangible object.
The Box + Ball: Visualise grief as a box + ball to understand the process.
The Grief Wave: See grief as a wave to navigate its unpredictable nature.
The Jar Model: Illustrates how your world can grow.
Treasured Memories: Recall memories to support healing.
Understanding Your Loss: Reflect on the impact of your loss.
Dual Model of Grief: Explore loss-oriented and restoration-oriented coping mechanisms.
🎧7 Grief Meditation Files
One Minute Meditation (1 min) – Begin your practice with a brief, 1-minute meditation.
Two Minute Meditation (2 mins) – A grounding meditation to pause and reconnect.
Mindful Breathing Short (6 mins) – A guide to mindful, non-judging awareness.
Lower Belly Meditation (9 mins – Focus on lowering your consciousness to your belly.
The Compassionate Hand Exercise (5 mins) – Promotes relaxation and self-care.
Soften Soothe Allow Meditation (13 mins) – Cultivate self-compassion.
Compassionate Image Exercise (5 mins) – Generate feelings of kindness and warmth.
Grief Meditation
Included FREE in our grief training courses…
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Guided Grief Meditation£15.00
With gentle guidance and reflective practices, these eight audio tracks cultivate self-compassion, connection, and gratitude while honouring the complex emotions that arise in grief.
Other Grief Counselling Resources
Also included FREE in our grief training courses…
Anxiety + Sleep Handouts
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£10.00 -
£10.00
📢 Holiday Grief Workbook
Compassionate support to navigate loss this Christmas.
🎯 Grief at Christmas – Wellbeing plan, coping & crisis plan, 5-min daily journal
🗓️ Mindset & Finding Meaning – Plan the holidays, positive affirmations, gratitude
🤝 Connecting with Others – Social plan, boundary setting, talking about grief
💌 Celebrating Your Loved One – Honour traditions, ways to remember, write a letter to a loved one
🧘♀️ Self-Care & Stress – Stress journal, mindful moments, anxiety affirmations, daily self-care checklist
😴 Restful Nights – Holiday sleep goals, sleep tips, sleep diary, brain dump to declutter the mind
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Holiday Grief Workbook£15.00