Workshop Overview  

Trauma and Grief is a one day workshop designed for counsellors, support workers, educators, health professionals, and anyone supporting individuals through loss or overwhelming experiences. This training explores the unique characteristics of trauma and grief, how they influence each other, and how to recognise when someone is navigating both.

What You Will Learn

• The key differences between trauma and grief, and why they matter in practice
• How trauma and grief affect the mind, body, emotions, and sense of self
• How trauma and grief can overlap, trigger, or complicate one another
• Ways to recognise trauma responses versus grief responses
• Trauma‑aware and grief‑informed strategies for supporting clients safely
• Practical tools for communication, grounding, assessment, and referral

Learning Outcomes  

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Distinguish between trauma and grief and understand their unique impacts
• Identify when a client is experiencing trauma, grief, or both
• Support emotional regulation and safety using trauma‑aware principles
• Apply grief‑informed approaches that honour individual meaning‑making
• Use language and communication strategies that reduce harm and build trust
• Integrate practical tools to support clients navigating complex emotional experiences
• Recognise when specialist support is needed and refer appropriately

Facilitator/Counsellor: Mandy Cox 

Dip. Miss.; CPE; Spiritual Director (WellSpring, Vic); B.Min; M.Couns; Grad Cert Supervision.

Mandy is a registered clinical Counsellor and Supervisor and has worked in the field of grief and loss for 20 years, working in a range of counselling roles, including palliative care, coronial counselling, maternal loss, victims of violent crime, and co-founded Canberra Grief Centre.  Mandy also facilitates workshops and retreats focussing on grief, loss and change.

For more information contact:

NALAG Centre for Loss & Grief
Email: info@nalag.org.au
Phone: 02 6882 9222