ACT for Grief and Loss FAQs

8 CE/CME Credits are available for ACT for Grief and Loss. View the Learner Notification to see the boards and jurisdictions, learning objectives and speaker disclosures.

Participants will also receive at certificate of completion at the end of their course, which can be submitted to registration bodies for CPD.

No. If you’re a relative newcomer to ACT, it’s wise to do the ACT For Beginners course first, to build your foundational knowledge and develop the core skills.  But it’s not absolutely essential.

ACT for Grief and Loss helps you look at grief and loss through an ACT lens: not as a disorder, or something that needs treatment – but as a profound, transformative human experience. You’ll learn how to provide a safe, compassionate space where clients can acknowledge and allow their painful emotions, learn values-based strategies to cope with loss, develop self-compassion, and find ways to move forwards in life while taking their pain with them. 

You’ll gain confidence in helping your clients to move flexibly between accepting their loss, honouring and making sense of it,  and rebuilding their life around it. Also, you'll gain a clear framework for guiding clients through a compassionate, meaningful grief process.

Yes, for sure. Every significant trauma involves loss, and most clients with trauma-related disorders have some degree of complicated grief. This course is also applicable to ‘traumatic grief’, which usually follows a sudden, unexpected, or violent loss: a complex combination of  grief with post-traumatic stress symptoms. That’s why we recommend this course as an extension to our training on Trauma-Focused ACT.

Absolutely! ACT for Grief and Loss covers normative grieving in depth, but it doesn’t stop there. You’ll learn skills and strategies to work effectively with all common presentations of complicated grief: ambiguous, delayed, masked, absent, disenfranchised, traumatic, and PGD (prolonged grief disorder).

Yes, definitely! The course does not follow outdated models such as Kübler-Ross’s ‘five stages’. Although it’s an ACT approach, the course aligns well with modern grief frameworks such as Worden’s ‘Four Tasks of Mourning’, Stroebe and Schut’s ‘Dual Process Model’, and Klass's ‘Continuing Bonds Theory’ - which are touched on in the course.