Therapist Training Manual + Worksheets – Digital Download (PDF)
This resource gives mental health professionals an actionable, trauma-sensitive approach to integrating grief work into substance use disorder treatment. Whether addressing disenfranchised loss, complicated grief, or unspoken trauma, this guide provides a clinical framework, grief mapping tools, and targeted worksheets to support deep emotional processing in recovery.
📘 What’s Inside:
- Overview of grief types in SUD populations
- Grief-informed clinical strategies for group and 1:1 settings
- Guided writing tools and client-ready grief processing exercises
- Letter-writing templates, memorial integration, and timeline mapping
- Discussion tools for emotional processing and reattachment work
- Grief-stage language for SUD settings
🛠️ Who This Is For:
- SUD counselors and therapists
- Clinical directors and group facilitators
- Grief-informed care providers
- Residential, IOP, and MAT program staff
🎯 Why It Matters:
Grief is a common but under-addressed relapse trigger. This guide brings emotional loss into the therapeutic conversation, helping clients make sense of pain while moving toward connection and recovery.
Trauma
, Emotional Regulation
, Addiction Recovery
, Journaling-Based
, Modality-Based
, Psychoeducation
