Digital Seminar
IFS Therapy for Grief and Loss
A Step-by-Step Program to Support Grief Processing and Meaning Making
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- Faculty:
- Lara Krawchuk, LCSW
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 03 Minutes
- Copyright:
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Feb 03, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS150567
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Loss leaves your client’s inner world in disarray. Overwhelmed and fragmented, some parts shut down entirely. Others try to protect them by avoiding the pain. Still others carry the raw hurt – desperately needing to be seen, heard, and held with compassion. But the inner conflict between these parts can leave clients stuck, unable to fully experience, express, or process their grief. That’s why if you work with grieving clients you need to be using Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy. Because IFS offers a compassionate, structured approach to help clients connect with their inner parts, restore internal balance, and safely navigate the grieving process. In this one-day training, you’ll join nationally recognized grief and loss expert and Certified IFS Therapist Lara Krawchuck, MSW, LCSW, MPH. She’ll show you step by step how to apply the IFS model to any type of loss – including traumatic losses, living losses, attachment injuries, and more. You’ll learn: This program will give you practical, hands-on IFS tools to help clients process grief safely, resolve internal conflicts, and move toward meaningful healing. Don’t wait – register now to transform the way you work with grief. This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
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Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - IFS Therapy for Grief and Loss (4.8 MB) | 75 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - IFS Therapy for Grief and Loss - French (4.8 MB) | 75 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - IFS Therapy for Grief and Loss - Italian (4.8 MB) | 75 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - IFS Therapy for Grief and Loss - German (4.8 MB) | 75 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - IFS Therapy for Grief and Loss - Spanish (4.8 MB) | 75 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Lara Krawchuk, LCSW Related seminars and products
Lara Krawchuk, MSW, LCSW, MPH, is an internationally recognized grief and trauma expert, certified IFS therapist, and IFS consultant. She specializes in supporting individuals and families navigating death, dying, bereavement, ambiguous loss, attachment injuries, trauma, and professional compassion fatigue.
Lara brings more than two decades of experience helping people heal from grief and “living losses” with warmth, creativity, and evidence-based care. She integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy into her practice and is passionate about training and mentoring other therapists to use the model.
Lara has been an adjunct lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice for over 20 years, teaching advanced clinical social work practice, IFS-informed social work and loss across a lifecycle.
She authored chapters for both volumes of Techniques of Grief Therapy edited by Robert A. Neimeyer and serves as practicum faculty with the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lara Krawchuk is the Co-Founder and CE Director of Healing Perspectives and the Founder and President of Healing Concepts. She has employment relationships with the University of Pennsylvania and West Chester University. She receives speaking honoraria from the Portland Institute for Loss & Transition and PESI, Inc., and a consulting fee from the University of Pennsylvania Health System. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lara Krawchuk has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Additional Info
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Please Note
This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
Objectives
- Examine evidence-based practice knowledge for grief and loss.
- Summarize the foundational concepts, key assessment perspectives, optimal intervention principles and evidence-base of meaning-oriented grief models
- Evaluate the impact of disenfranchised grief on clients.
- Choose trauma-informed regulation skills to ensure safety in working with highly distressed clients.
- Identify the benefits and limitations of applying IFS to support healing and growth with grieving clients.
- Determine the role of creative interventions grounded in contemporary grief theory and the IFS model of care.
- Choose self-care techniques to support helping professionals in navigating the compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatization frequently associated with grief work.
Outline
Evidence-Based Practice & Creativity in Grief Work
- Defining bereavement, ambiguous and nonfinite losses
- Grief as crisis of meaning
- Loss of the assumptive world
- Re-Examining the goals of grief work
- Moving Beyond the stages of grief
- Becoming self-led leaders
The Impact of Disenfranchised Grief
- Honoring the influence of culture, religion, and community
- Tending to disarticulated and suffocated grief
- Endless Mourning
- Understanding grief fatigue
- Building Trust when grief is disenfranchised
- Celebrating cultural wisdom
Contemporary Grief Theories and Principles to Guide Intervention
- Grief specific assessment
- Role of compassion in grief work
- Overview of the Meaningful Grief Model
- Dual-process model of grief
- Sustaining continued bonds
- Skills of meaning orientation
- Post-traumatic growth and healing
- Meaning reconstruction
The Backstory of Grief: Attachment, Prior Losses and More
- Assessing attachment histories
- Understanding the impact of prior losses and traumas
- Skills for resourcing in times of dysregulation
- Safety & titration with grieving clients
Internal Family Systems (IFS) for Grief
- Role of protector parts in grief
- Exploring internal resources: Protector parts & true self
- Demonstration of radical welcoming for grieving parts
- Maintaining safety in IFS grief work
- Navigating trauma triggers
- Unbraiding past and present
- Preventing grief exiles
- Research, risks and limitations
Self-Care for Grief Professionals
- Compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma
- Countertransference in grief work
- The power of YouTurns
- Moving towards being a SELF-led healer
Target Audience
- Social Workers
- Counselors
- Psychologists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Registered Psychotherapists
- Nurses
- Thanatologists
- Chaplains/Clergy
- Case Managers
- Physicians
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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