Title: Counseling Leaders and Advocates: Strengthening the Future of the Profession

Title: Prolonged Grief and Existential Counseling

Description: Counselors need to understand prolonged grief through a phenomenological, holistic, and relational lens so they can develop a blueprint for understanding and effectively treating it (Ivers et al., 2024). The authors of this professional development explore how existential perspectives and principles provide a clinically useful explanation for the presence and etiology of many of the symptoms of prolonged grief. Counselors who register for this continuing education will learn about the historical and contemporary conceptualizations of and treatment for prolong grief. They will also understand prolong grief from a phenomenological, holistic and relational lens and apply existential conceptualizations of prolonged grief to formulate integrated, flexible, and culturally responsive treatment plans.