Join me to explore the relationship between grief and attachment theory—and how a Gestalt lens can help us understand both.

Grief, Attachment and Gestalt

January 15th 8:30-10:30am

Smoky Mountain Highschool, 100 Smoky Mountain Drive, Sylva, NC 28779

Jamie Oxendine, LCMHCS, owner of Songbird Counseling & Consultation, PLLC in Sylva, NC, has practiced since 2005 and supervised since 2008. Her mother’s death inspired Songbird’s name and deepened her understanding of grief as a pathway to growth, aliveness, and authentic connection. With experience across the lifespan, six years of Appalachian Gestalt Institute training, and EMDR training, Jamie brings a present-moment, body-centered approach to helping supervisors, therapists and other helping professionals explore themselves and their impact on others.

The Training Focus

Participants will be able to identify and describe how grief is deeply rooted in attachment styles, as we explore the many facets of grief in the lives of our clients and ourselves. Gestalt therapy will be a lens for which grief and attachment can be accessed and explored.

Objectives:   

1. Participants will be able to identify how grief responses are directly correlated with one’s attachment style

2. Participants will be able to utilize principals of Gestalt therapy to access “unfinished” business, as it relates to grief responses both in clients and within self

3. Participants will recognize the importance of integration as it pertains to the grieving process, through a Gestalt lens, as well as with increased awareness of attachment and connection to self and with others.