Creative Interventions for Griefwork

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Creative Interventions for Griefwork

DATE: Thursday, July 24, 2025

TIME: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. ET // 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. CT // 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. PT // 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. MT

PLATFORM: Via Zoom Webinar

COST: $39

FEATURES:

Live & Interactive Webinar
Presentation Slides PDF & Additional Resources Included
Provides for 2 CE hours of Clinical

This webinar is for clinicians seeking to expand their therapeutic toolkit for working with grief and loss. This training will explore creative, expressive-arts-based approaches to grief therapy, such as art, journaling, movement, ritual, and music, to help clients express and process their emotions in ways that go beyond verbal expression. You will learn how these creative interventions can facilitate emotional release, deepen self-awareness, and support clients in finding meaning and transformation through their grief. Through experiential exercises and practical strategies, you will leave with new tools to integrate into their practice to help clients heal and honor their grief in unique and empowering ways.

Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

Identify the clinical benefits of creativity and expressive arts for managing grief
Analyze how creative interventions address symptoms
Implement creative strategies with clients

$39.00

Categories: Clinical, Live Webinars, Substance Specific

2 CE Hours of Clinical Continuing education
NBCC #7091 & ASWB #1770 Approved Provider

Target Audience: Mental Health Counselors, Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialists, Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselors, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists

Course Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

NBCC ACEP # 7091, CE Training Workshops has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP #7091. Programs that do not qualify are clearly identified. CE Training Workshops is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. CE Training Workshops designates this continuing education activity for 2 continuing education hours.

CE Training Workshops, LLC, #1770, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 07/02/2022 – 07/02/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 Clinical continuing education credits.

Purchase Instructions

Registration Deadline: Register up until the start time!

Cost Includes: A PDF of the presentation slides/supplemental training materials and a certificate of completion.

Evaluation / Certificate: Within 4 hours of completing the webinar, participants will receive an email with a link to complete an evaluation. Once completed, the participant can download/print the certificate.

System Requirements: Internet and the ability to log into Zoom webinars when provided a meeting link, which will be sent upon registration.

Interactive Webinar: This is a live & interactive webinar, which means that participants can interact with other participants and the instructor in live time. Participants must be signed in by the webinar start time, attend the entire course, and complete the course evaluation to receive CE credit. Partial credit is not provided.

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Meet Your Facilitator

Dreya Blume is a licensed clinical social worker, with her MSW from Radford University and an MA in anthropology from the University of Hawaii. Dreya has twenty years of experience working in mental health, from case management to intensive in-home services to leading groups for addicts in recovery. Dreya began a part-time counseling practice in 2004, and as a psychotherapist, her focus has been on serving the LGBTQ+ community. Dreya also has been a teacher for thirty years. Prior to her career in social work, she taught English in places such as Japan, Thailand, Australia, and Hawaii. Since 2010, Dreya has been an adjunct professor for Virginia Western Community College, preparing future social workers for the field.

In her spare time, Dreya loves to write. She is the author of a number of books (published under her former name, Andy Matzner), including “Everyone Has a Story: Using the Hero’s Journey and Narrative Therapy to Reframe the Struggle of Mental Illness,” “The Tarot Activity Book: A Collection of Creative and Therapeutic Ideas for the Cards,” and “The Buddha Diet: A Guide to Creating a Positive Relationship with Food and Eating.”