Working with grieving clients can bring unique challenges to the counseling process. The Counseling Strategies for Loss and Grief book provides a comprehensive look inside an often unpredictable and challenging journey. Dr. Keren Humphrey offers counselors a unique perspective on grief and loss, including the historical understanding of grief and loss, relevant models, and appropriate strategies to fit various counseling styles and approaches. This book addresses several types of losses that highlight grief as an experience unrestricted by a timeline or having one correct way to grieve. Instead, Dr. Humphrey covers an integrated approach that helps counselors understand the characteristics of grief and how best to work with grieving clients. Further, she recognizes that counselors are not immune to loss and grief and offers strategies for stronger self-awareness and accountability for counselors to process their own grief.

Readers can utilize this book as a tool to productively work with clients to manage their grief in healthy ways. Whether counselors have extensive knowledge and experience in grief and loss or are curious about how to best connect with a grieving client, counselors can refer to this book when they are looking for best practices. This book provides in-depth but flexible guidelines that any counselor can adopt to fit their client’s developmental level, along with cultural considerations that may influence the grieving process. Dr. Humphrey provides examples of several interventions that are clear and practical for counselors with different specialties and backgrounds. In addition to finding strategies that are adaptable to the client, Dr. Humphrey covers several counseling approaches, such as Cognitive-Behavioral and Solution-Focused Therapy that can help counselors view grief through a theoretically based lens. This sets this book apart from other grief and loss materials and make it relatable to counselors. Because grief is a universal experience, it is essential for counselors to enhance their understanding of grief and loss. This book fulfills that necessity while enriching readers with a holistic overview, theoretical models, and intentional strategies to assist all clients grieving many types of losses.