Beth's Qualifications
Counselling
- Advanced Diploma of Meaning Centred Therapy (Logotherapy) Studies
- Advanced Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling
- Seasons of Growth Children and Young People’s program facilitator
- Mental Health First Aid
- Managing Wellbeing and Recognising Vicarious Trauma – Blue Knot Foundation
- Gabor Mate – International Childhood Trauma lectures
- 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
End Of Life Care
- International Death Doula Training, Quality of Life Care
- Essentials of Palliative Care Chaplaincy Certificate – USA
- End of Life Doula Professional Certificate – University of Vermont
- International Death Doula Training, Doorway into Light
- Understanding Dementia (University of Tasmania) Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre
- Midwifing Death – Michael and Ann Barbato, and Judith Hunt
- Dignity Therapist
- Stillbirthday Doula (USA)
- Foundation for Infant Loss Training (UK)
- Reiki I
- Meeting Death and Dying Consciously (Brisbane)
- Deathwalking Training – Natural Death Care Centre by Zenith Virago
Spiritual Care
- MA in Existential and Humanistic Pastoral Care (in progress) UK
- Clinical Pastoral Education (Humanist) – Queensland Institute of Clinical Pastoral Education
- Attended Spiritual Care Conference Gold Coast 2017
- Guest speaker at Queensland Institute of Pastoral Education, the topic was “End of Life conversations for the not so religious”.
- Perinatal Loss and Bereavement Workshop – Gold Coast University Hospital
- PD Health Care Ethics – Applied Ethics, Multifaith Academy
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 12 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
- The Intimacy of Death and Dying – by Zenith Virago
- Greening the funeral
- Writing the Soul Home workshop
- Carnival of Life and Death – Natural Death Centre Australia
In Grief And Loss
- 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
- Author of Animal Companion Celebrant Course and Animal Companion Doula course
- Palliative Care Training Program Hopewell Centre
- International Funeral Celebrant Trainer
- Grief Educator
- Internationally Certified Funeral Celebrant
Other Qualifications
- Owner of celebrant training company Australian Celebrations Training
- Master of Business (Marketing) QUT
- Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing) Griffith University
- Post graduate certificate in Educational Marketing (Southhampton University)
- Commonwealth Registered Marriage Celebrant (Australia)
- Certificate IV in Celebrancy (marriage and funeral)
- Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
- Certificate IV in Small Business Management
- Rotary Scholar GSE 2001
From Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
- The physical, psychological and spiritual processes of death
- Loss and Grief Relating To Ability, Ageing and Dementia
- Helping Grieving Children and Adolescents
- Grief and Loss in palliative care settings
- Supporting and Communicating with the bereaved
- Understanding and responding to prolonged grief disorder
- An integrative person-centred approach to counselling for Grief and Loss, Dr Dale Larson
- Helping grieving children and adolescents
- Strategies for supporting bereaved and grieving adults
- Exploring the many facets of grief following the death of a parent
- Engaging in effective brief contact or single-session grief and bereavement support
- Grief and Loss across the lifespan
- Techniques of Grief Therapy: Accessing the Back Story of the relationship by Dr Robert Neimeyer
- Techniques of Grief Therapy: Processing the Event Story of the Death by Dr Robert Neimeyer
- Mindfulness, Spirituality and Transilience: In the context of bereavement support
- Understanding and supporting Perinatal Loss
- Iceberg Theory: Counselling below the surface presented by Benjamin Wolfe
- A Practitioner’s Guide to Care of the Dying presented by
Dr Louis A Gamino - Counselling Clients with Complicated Grief presented by
Dr Louis A Gamino - Therapeutic self, mindfulness and self care in bereavement support
Infant Loss
- Stillbirth Doula (USA)
- Holding Space for pregnancy loss (Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death)
- Foundation for Infant Loss Training (UK)
- Clinical Pastoral Education (Aus)
Supporting Children
- Seasons of Growth Children and Young People’s program facilitator
- Good Grief, This Hurts, supporting children and young people to manage the impact of death on their lives (QLD health dept)
Business
- Since 2003 owner and trainer of Australian Celebrations Training (www.australiancelebrations.com.au)
- Approved contractor for professional development for celebrants by the Attorney-General’s Department of Australia
- Author of 2 Certificate IV Qualifications – nationally recognised – Celebrancy and Small Business management
- Author of 97 E-Books on professional development for celebrants
- Author of course – Directing Life’s Ceremonies
- Author of Funeral Celebrancy qualification – nationally recognised