About the webinar

Grieving clients present unique, complex challenges in therapeutic settings, requiring focused and immediate intervention, especially given the common reality of brief client contact. This essential webinar equips practitioners with the foundational knowledge and specific therapeutic approaches needed to effectively support grieving individuals within a single session framework.

Led by counselling psychologist Lefteris Patlamazoglou, this training explores the strengths and difficulties of applying Single Session Thinking (SST) specifically with grieving clients. The session provides essential basic skills to translate SST knowledge into practice, ensuring you deliver compassionate, impactful, and appropriately brief support to clients experiencing loss and trauma.

Secure your registration to gain specialist brief therapy competence in grief work, enabling you to deliver focused, trauma-informed support that acknowledges clients' multiple identities and experiences of loss. 

Learning outcomes

Participating in this online professional training will enable you to:

• Gain foundational knowledge of the key features of Single Session (SST) and specific approaches for working effectively with grieving clients.
• Understand the strengths and difficulties of utilising Single Session Thinking in clinical practice with individuals experiencing grief.
• Acquire basic skills to translate knowledge of SST and specific approaches into practical, compassionate intervention.
• Apply an intersectional framework to acknowledge and address how clients' multiple identities influence their experience of grief and wellbeing.

Who should attend

This webinar is highly relevant for professionals delivering brief therapeutic services who want to enhance their specific skills in working with clients experiencing grief, loss, or trauma.
The target audience includes:

• Professionals delivering brief therapy services to grieving clients
• Counsellors and Clinicians
• Psychologists
• Social Workers and Community Organisation Workers
• Health Professionals and Youth Workers
• Professionals in Therapeutic and Care Settings

About the presenters

The webinar is presented by an expert counselling psychologist and academic specialising in intersectionality and trauma:

Lefteris Patlamazoglou – A counselling psychologist and a lecturer in psychology and counselling at Monash University. In his practice, teaching, and research, Lefteris adopts the framework of intersectionality to understand how clients' multiple identities create novel experiences of mental health and illness. He has worked extensively with clients dealing with migration, grief, trauma, and LGBTQIA+ identities, and is the course leader of the Master of Counselling at Monash University.

Purchase access

Use the purchase button to process your payment through our secure gateway. As soon as your purchase is complete, we’ll email you the details for immediate access to the recording within our Moodle Learning Management System.

System requirements for online training

To ensure you can participate in this webinar, please have access to the following:

• Desktop or laptop computer
• A reliable, stable internet connection
• Working microphone and speakers
• Webcam (either built-in or external to your computer)
• Headphones (recommended for optimal audio clarity)

Contact us

For further details or questions, please contact our Centre for Learning and Innovation:

Phone: (03) 8573 2222

Email: [email protected]