Presenter: Mary Martineau, LCSW
Mary Martineau is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in private practice, working primarily with Medicare clients and individuals seeking therapy for grief and trauma using Body/Mind modalities.
Experience as a Hospice Social Worker and Care Manager in a geriatric clinic has helped in providing care to this underserved population.
Master of Social Work with an emphasis in Gerontology from the University of Utah in 2011.
Grief group facilitator for over 15 years for Caring Connections: A Hope and Comfort in Grief Program at the U of U College of Nursing. Facilitating grief groups for adults grieving the death of a family member or friend to disease, suicide, substance use, or homicide.
Co-educator with Kathie Supiano, director of Caring Connections, providing grief training to practitioners and clinics throughout Utah for four years.
Level 2 certified – Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Natural Processing.
Level 2 trained – EMDRIA-trained Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Level 1 certified – Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
A lifelong Utahn (with a stint in Paris, France). Interests include painting, sculpture, and gardening. Spending time in Red Rock country and spoiling her grandcats.
Presentation: Grief and Trauma – It’s Complicated
Loss is a natural part of life; we are made to grieve and survive our losses with the help of community.
Sometimes, because of difficult or traumatic events, we need the help of a professional to assist us in navigating our grief, especially if it is a violent or sudden death.
Grief takes many different forms.
We don’t see clients who are fine. Those who come to us for help almost always have traumatic or complex grief.
We, as clinicians, have to begin by understanding what is underneath their grief.
Sometimes we assume we are treating acute or traumatic grief, but often, there is also underlying long-term trauma that must be attended to.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the grief expression and mechanics. Types of grief and the interaction of grief and trauma, both acute trauma and chronic trauma. Learn to recognize and treat trauma reactions within grief.
- Explain the therapeutic benefits of trauma-informed protocols in treating trauma to allow natural grieving to occur.
- Identify key integration strategies for combining grief therapy and EMDR and IFS within the therapeutic process, with an emphasis on optimizing emotional processing and memory reprocessing for clients with complex grief.
- Develop understanding for implementing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) in the grieving process in clinical practice, enhancing client outcomes, and fostering compassionate care for individuals dealing with complex trauma and the grieving journey.