Professional Grief Support
using the CIRCLE method
Specialisation: Adults
How to truly support your clients through grief—without ever feeling powerless again
You’re a skilled mental health counselor, but when you’re faced with guiding someone through a major loss… doubts start to creep in.
Learn the language of grief
Supporting someone through loss has its own language – it requires specific questions and frequent moments of silence. This is something we’re rarely taught in training programs. What many of us have learned is that the client should be in control – that as a professional, you only ask questions and provide tools, while the client discovers where the pain and solutions lay. In many areas, that approach works well, but not with loss. Time and again, it turns out that in cases of death, divorce, or serious illness, standard methods are not effective. What does work, is that you take the client by the hand and guide them through the landscape of grief.
To lead someone through grief you need to know the route. You learn that route in this post-graduate training Professional Grief Support.
The CIRCLE Method
The model that brings theory and practice together
The CIRCLE method supports reshaping life after loss by circling back to one’s own strengths, values, and identity. It provides a guide to creating a lasting connection with the loss and forming a new connection with life, so that step by step, a person regains a grip on a changed reality and can look ahead with renewed strength.
Grief is not a linear process; the CIRCLE method reflects this reality. As a professional, you learn to assess which part of the CIRCLE method the client is in, making clear what needs to happen and the kind of support that is required. At the same time, the client gains insight into the process through the CIRCLE method, enabling them to (re)take control over their life.
Make an appointment for a no-obligation consultation with Leoniek to discuss your bespoke training package
Grief Training with Personal Guidance
This is not a course lasting years, but an 8 to 12-week training during which you receive one-on-one bespoke coaching from Leoniek. Afterwards you know exactly how to take your client by the hand and guide them lovingly and expertly back to the path of life.
A toolbox of interventions and knowledge at the Grief Training Centre
With the knowledge and tools from the Grief Training Centre, you’ll see results immediately. Your clients become active participants in their own grieving process, regain energy faster, improve their ability to maintain social connections, and can once again show up for their children, partner, friends, and work in an upward spiral.
That builds confidence! You no longer need to refer clients elsewhere or send them away.
An extensive toolbox of interventions and knowledge ensures you know when to take the client by the hand and when they need to take the lead themselves. No more feeling stuck or doubting if you’re doing the right thing. With a satisfied feeling, you can confidently send your invoice and your clients will enthusiastically recommend you to others. You become the specialised professional that grieving clients seek! This way, you can help more and more clients with loss; both individually or in group sessions.
Your client-base will grow, and you’ll be ready for it!
Why choose this Professional Grief Support training?
Loss makes people vulnerable and you want to support your clients well, without making the trauma any bigger than it already is.
Professional Grief Support means bringing depth to your conversations, peeling back the layers to reach the deepest parts of your grieving clients. It means descending into the darkest corners of their being, where so much pain lives. It means carrying that pain with them and knowing, at the right moment and in the right way, how to help them move forward, exactly when they are ready. That is expertise. That is professional grief support.
The Professional Grief Support Training for Adults is practice-oriented. Theoretical knowledge is combined with countless examples drawn from over 25 years of experience, so you truly understand what the journey with your client is, and should be, about.
You may have explored or completed other trainings or courses, but the Grief Training Centre is unique in its personal guidance, allowing you as an experienced professional to find exactly what you need.
I completed a one-year training in Grief Studies, which mainly focused on theory and body-oriented work. I thought this would be enough to adequately support clients in their loss.
However, during the Professional Grief Support Training with Leoniek van der Maarel, I realised that I had missed depth in my previous training. Leoniek’s knowledge and skills, combined with her extensive experience in guiding clients, have given me far more than what I gained from my initial course.
I now confidently call myself a grief specialist and can help clients with their loss better than ever before.
Anne-Mieke Zweers | Alles Is Relatie
Professional Grief Support for Adults
In this training, we cover the following themes:
- Why death, divorce, and serious illness require a loss-focused approach
- The impact of loss on the individual: cognition, behavior, emotions, and the body
- Different perspectives on loss and grief
- Key grief theories and how they support our daily work
- How to guide clients through exceptionally complex situations
- How to recognize and address complicated grief
Case studies and reflection
Together we grow – you don’t have to do this alone.
During the masterclasses, we discuss case studies and reflect on your own role as a professional, what this work might evoke in you personally, and how to cope with it. Leoniek facilitates these conversations, drawing on her 25+ years of experience as a renowned grief and loss therapist.
Imagine moving beyond feelings of powerlessness, working with confidence and watching your client-base grow.
- Do you want practical tools you can use during your sessions to effectively help clients carry their loss?
- Do you want to develop skills and learn creative ways to support grieving clients, so you truly make an impact on their lives?
- Are you ambitious to grow your grief counseling client-base and establish yourself as a specialist in the field of loss?
- Do you feel the need to build more confidence in your knowledge and skills, so you can end your workday with a sense of fulfillment?
- Do you believe it’s valuable to encourage your clients to stay actively engaged outside of sessions, for example by experiencing and sharing the benefits of meditations?
- Do you need deeper insight into how people uniquely process loss and how to connect with their individuality while also considering social dynamics?
- Are you drawn to learning how to take care of yourself in this challenging profession, and eager to network and learn from other professionals who share your passion?
If so, join this training and let’s grow, learn, and make an impact together. Together, we make a difference.
Our money back guarantee
We are so convinced of the quality of this program that we are happy to give a guarantee. If you are not convinced of the content quality after 14 days, you will get your money back minus €125 administration costs (excluding 21% tax).
With great enthusiasm and individuality, Leoniek managed to convey all the theory easily and effortlessly, which also allowed me to absorb it effortlessly.
With her good training skills, practical examples and experienced knowledge, training with Leoniek really adds a lot!
Evelien de Gier | de Hartenwerkplaats
Why work with Leoniek?
The Grief Training Centre offers practical, hands-on training for coaches, social workers, general mental health care assistants, psychologists, and other mental health care professionals.
The centre is led by Leoniek van der Maarel, who has helped thousands of people cope with loss for more than 25 years.
At the Grief Training Centre, you’ll find the practical training and personal guidance that was missing from your formal education.
In addition to being confronted with adults who have suffered or will suffer a loss, you may also be asked to help young people who are experiencing a loss. This requires a different approach than the one you can apply to adults.
Discover here what the Grief Training Centre can do for you with the training Professional Grief Support for Children.
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