Beth's Qualifications
Counselling
- Internationally Certified Thanatologist – Certified in Thanatology: Death, Dying and Bereavement. This is an international accreditation with The Association for Death Education and Counseling.
- Advanced Diploma of Meaning-Centred Counselling Therapy (Logotherapy) Studies
- Advanced Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling
- Certification in Grief Therapy as Meaning Reconstruction with Robert Neimeyer, Portland Institute (in progress)
- Attachment Informed Grief Therapy
- Mental Health First Aid
- Managing Well-being and Recognising Vicarious Trauma – Blue Knot Foundation
- Gabor Mate – International Childhood Trauma lectures – series at International Childhood Trauma Conference
- Bessel van der Kolk conference – Trauma, Neuroscience and the evolving therapy of traumatised children and adults
- Moving beyond theory: Practical counselling skills for working with children – Child Aware Group
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
- Living Hope suicide bereavement training program
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy workshops with Dr Russell Harris
- Cultivating a compassionate presence (Authentic Presence Institute – Ireland)
- Mindfulness and awareness (Authentic Presence Institute – Ireland)
- Foundations of Courage and Renewal Approach – Centre for Courage and Renewal
- Applications of the Adult Attachment Interview with Daniel Siegel
End Of Life Care
- Author of End of Life Companions (TM) training
- Author of End of Life Planning course for community members
- Postgraduate Certificate in Existential and Humanistic Pastoral Care (NSPC- UK)
- International Death Doula Training, Quality of Life Care
- Introduction to LGBTIQ+ Communities (LGBTIQ+ Palliative Care Project)
- End of Life Doula Professional Certificate – University of Vermont
- International Death Doula Training, Doorway into Light
- Doulagivers’ End of Life Training with Suzanne O’Brien
- Understanding Dementia (University of Tasmania) Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre
- Midwifing Death – Michael and Ann Barbato, and Judith Hunt
- Dignity Therapist
- Reiki I
- Meeting Death and Dying Consciously (Brisbane)
- Deathwalker training – Natural Death Care Centre by Zenith Virago
- Principles, Theory, and Practices – Conscious Dying Institute
- End of Life Law for Clinicians
- The physical, psychological, and spiritual processes of death (ACGB)
- A Practitioner’s Guide to Care of the Dying presented by Dr Louis A Gamino (ACGB)
Animal Companion Training
- Author of online course Animal Companion Celebrant and Animal Companion Doula
- Grief Recovery Specialist – Pet Loss
- Companion Animal End of Life Doula professional certificate – The University of Vermont
- Member of The Association of Pet Loss and Bereavement
- Companion Animal Loss (4 series course) – Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
- Animal Chaplain Training
- Pet Loss and Integration – Pet Loss Professional Alliance
- Deciding to Euthanize Your Pet and A Holistic Approach to Pet Death – Sacred Death Centre
- Ethics and Essential Boundaries – “Animals in Our Hearts”
In Grief And Loss
- 20 years’ experience as Grief Educator
- Grief and its complications – conceptualising and diagnosis – Dr Robert Neimeyer (Portland Institute)
- Grief and its complications – Loss and search for meaning – Dr Robert Neimeyer (Portland Institute)
- Creative personal ritual for loss and trauma transition – Dr Terri Daniel (Portland Institute)
- Seasons of Growth TM facilitator (Good Grief) Australia (childrens’ program)
- Grief Recovery Specialist® Grief Recovery Institute
- Certified Creative Grief Support ® Creative Grief Studio
- Traumatic Grief and Complicated Loss, with David Kessler
- Bereavement Counselling (Summer School) Bereavement Care Centre, with Mal and Dianne McKissock
- Grief Resilience Skills Training
- Palliative Care Training Program Hopewell Centre
- International Funeral Celebrant Trainer
- Healing Loss through prescriptive memory-marking and dyadic creativity (Dreamscaping)
- Loss and Grief Relating To Ability, Ageing and Dementia (ACGB)
In Grief And Loss Cont’d
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- Grief and Loss in palliative care settings (ACGB)
- Supporting and Communicating with the bereaved (ACGB)
- Understanding and responding to prolonged grief disorder (ACGB)
- An integrative person-centred approach to counselling for Grief and Loss, Dr Dale Larson (ACGB)
- Strategies for supporting bereaved and grieving adults (ACGB)
- Exploring the many facets of grief following the death of a parent (ACGB)
- Engaging in effective brief contact or single-session grief and bereavement support (ACGB)
- Grief and Loss across the lifespan (ACGB)
- Techniques of Grief Therapy: Accessing the Back Story of the Relationship by Dr Robert Neimeyer (ACGB)
- Techniques of Grief Therapy: Processing the Event Story of the Death by Dr Robert Neimeyer (ACGB)
- Iceberg Theory: Counselling below the surface presented by Benjamin Wolfe (ACGB)
- Counselling Clients with Complicated Grief presented by Dr Louis A Gamino (ACGB)
Death Education
- Internationally Certified Thanatologist – Certified in Thanatology: Death, Dying and Bereavement”. This is an international accreditation with The Association for Death Education and Counseling. One of the 16 Certified Thantaologists in Australia.
- Die Wise – Making Meaning of the Ending of Days – Stephen Jenkinson
- Eldership ( 5 day immersion) – Stephen Jenkinson
- Death Café Facilitator (Brisbane)
- Deathwalking Training – Natural Death Care Centre by Zenith Virago
- Mortals: How the fear of death shaped human society Dr Rachel Menzies
- Greening the funeral
- Writing the Soul Home workshop
- Carnival of Life and Death – Natural Death Centre Australia
Spiritual and Pastoral Care
- Postgraduate Certificate in Existential and Humanistic Pastoral Care (NSPC- UK)
- Essentials of Palliative Care Chaplaincy Certificate – USA
- Humanist representative on Social Health Australia working on Wellbeing Officer Project for Royal Australian Navy
- Paediatric Death Course – USA
- Clinical Pastoral Education (Humanist) – Queensland Institute of Clinical Pastoral Education
- Guest speaker at Queensland Institute of Pastoral Education, the topic was “End of Life conversations for the not-so-religious”.
- PD Health Care Ethics – Applied Ethics, Multifaith Academy
- Guiding clients through Palliative Care – Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement (ACGB)
- Holistic counselling for Meditation Teachers – Inspire Holistic Training
- Induced after-death communication: A powerful and innovative tool for Grief Therapy – (ACGB)
- Mindfulness, Spirituality and Transilience: In the context of bereavement support (ACGB)
- Shared Death Experience – William Peters, Shared Crossing Project
- Soul Psychology – Dr Thomas Moore
- Guiding clients through Palliative Care certificate four modules (ACGB)
Supporting Children
- Seasons of Growth Children and Young People’s program facilitator
- Helping Grieving Children and Adolescents (ACGB)
- Good Grief, this hurts, anticipatory grief (Quality of Care Collaborative Australia QuoCCA)
- Good Grief, This Hurts, supporting children and young people to manage the impact of death on their lives (Quality of Care Collaborative Australia QuoCCA)
- Supporting Children, Teens, and Young Adults who are grieving – Dougy Centre USA