Grief Counselor

You help people process loss — death, divorce, job loss, terminal diagnoses — the kind of pain that rearranges a person's entire sense of the world. You'll sit with people in their worst moments, validate feelings that scare them, and gently challenge the ones that are keeping them stuck. There's no fixing grief; there's only moving through it. Your job is to make sure nobody has to do that alone.

Learn the skills

Courses and certifications to get you job-ready

What you'll actually do

• 01Provide individual counseling to people experiencing loss that has fundamentally altered their daily existence
• 02Facilitate grief support groups where strangers share the most painful moments of their lives with each other
• 03Help clients distinguish between healthy grief and complicated grief that needs more intensive treatment
• 04Support hospice families before, during, and after a loved one's death because grief doesn't start at the funeral
• 05Practice self-care with the discipline of someone who absorbs human suffering for a living and needs to not bring it home
• 06Create bereavement resources and programming for organizations — hospitals, schools, workplaces — navigating collective loss