Grief and Trauma Recovery Support
The 7 Stages of Grief for The Living © Grief to Growth: Grief becomes growth by the response, not the event. Grief is the natural response to profound change.
Your first session offers a safe space for a comprehensive assessment and a one-hour session focused on Grief and Trauma Recovery Support. During this time, Christine, your compassionate guide, will work closely with you to understand your unique journey and determine the best approach for your healing. Grief is a natural response to profound change, but with the right support, it can become a pathway to growth. Christine's approach helps you navigate the grief of loss and the impact of trauma, showing that healing comes not from the event itself, but from how you respond to it. With her by your side, you’ll receive heartfelt guidance as you move forward, transforming grief into growth and finding renewed strength.
Grief and Trauma Recovery Support One Hour - FREE Discovery Session
🌿 Grief & Trauma Reiki Sessions 🌿
Are you seeking peace in the midst of grief or trauma? Allow the healing energy of Reiki to guide you toward balance and emotional restoration.
✨ What to Expect:
Gentle, calming energy to soothe your mind, body, and soul
A safe, supportive space to release emotional blockages
A unique focus on grief and trauma recovery
An introduction to the Forever Collection, an interactive healing tool.
Discover More About Grief and Trauma Recovery Support
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Grief and Trauma Recovery Coaching
is a supportive, personalized process designed to help individuals navigate the emotional and psychological impacts of grief and trauma. Through guided coaching, you are empowered to understand your responses to loss, process difficult emotions, and find strategies to move forward with healing. This approach focuses on helping you rebuild your life and rediscover your strength, offering tools to cope with grief and trauma in a way that fosters growth and resilience.
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Grief and Trauma Recovery Support
provides a safe and compassionate space for you to process your emotions, gain clarity, and heal from the effects of loss and trauma. It helps you understand and work through your grief, offering practical tools and emotional guidance to cope with the overwhelming feelings you may be experiencing. With this support, you can begin to rebuild your sense of self, restore balance in your life, and develop resilience, all while moving toward a place of healing and growth.
How can Grief and Trauma Recovery Support Consulting transform the well-being of my business, organization, and employees?
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Grief and Trauma Recovery Support Consulting can have a profound impact in the corporate world by helping businesses address emotional well-being and resilience among their employees. In the fast-paced environment of modern workplaces, grief, trauma, and personal loss can significantly affect employee morale, productivity, and overall mental health. Here’s how this support can benefit businesses:
Enhancing Employee Well-being: Offering grief and trauma recovery support fosters a compassionate workplace culture, where employees feel valued and supported during challenging times. This can reduce absenteeism, stress, and burnout.
Boosting Productivity: When employees are given tools to process and manage grief and trauma, they are better equipped to refocus on their tasks, resulting in improved performance and engagement.
Building Emotional Resilience: Recovery support helps employees build emotional resilience, which is critical for coping with stress, change, and unexpected challenges, ultimately making teams more adaptable.
Strengthening Leadership: By providing recovery support, businesses show strong leadership that prioritizes employee well-being, which improves trust and loyalty within the organization.
Improving Workplace Relationships: Helping employees navigate their grief can lead to better communication, cooperation, and teamwork, creating a more harmonious work environment.
Incorporating grief and trauma recovery support into the workplace reflects a progressive approach that prioritizes both employee well-being and organizational success. By addressing the emotional and mental health needs of employees, companies can foster a more supportive and resilient work culture. This not only enhances productivity and teamwork but also creates a sustainable environment where individuals feel valued and empowered to thrive, even in the face of personal challenges.
Testimony :
" I can't thank you enough for your support and assistance during that summer of 2009-10 when I was at my lowest. You truly helped in saving my life and I can't thank you enough for that. Since that time, I went on to get a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science with Honours from Brock. In September of 2019, my life and career trajectory changed forever when one of my best friends lost their battle with substance use. Dealing with that grief was one of the most difficult things that I've had to endure, as I was just finishing my undergrad and had so many questions about what my life was going to look like. I feel blessed to have all of my lived experience to inform my approach to psychotherapy, and who I am as an individual. Again thank you for being there when I really needed it.”
-Best, A. McCartney
Meet Christine: Your Grief and Trauma Recovery Support Specialist
Christine Dernederlanden C.B.T.,C.T.S.S., IAC-MP Grief and Bereavement Trauma Specialist, Reiki Master, IAC Masteries Practitioner Coach
Christine, is a down to earth humanitarian who has worked the front lines and is not afraid to be real in the field of grief, trauma and bereavement. Christine holds a certification in Bereavement Trauma with the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and is a Certified Trauma Services Specialist, with the Association Of Traumatic Stress Specialists. Christine is a member of the Toronto International Coaching Federation and the International Association of Coaching holding an IAC Masteries Practitioner. Her academic affiliations include Niagara University, Oklahoma Traumatology, Brock University, the University of Wisconsin and National Centre for P.T.S.D. Christine is a professional Coach, Author and Speaker for clients such as communities, Indigenous, Armed Forced, healthcare, educational in-stitutes, corporations, small businesses, individuals, government agencies, and non-profits.
Christine has been recognized internationally. A personal loss early in life led Christine to write her very first book entitled Where is Robert?.
The Where is Robert? grief kit aided more than 6,000 families affected by the 9/11 terrorist attacks and earned Christine a certificate of appreciation from former U.S. Secretary of Defence, Donald. H Rumsfeld. Her second publication, H.U.G.S.: Helping Children Understand Grief Sessions, was inspired by her work at the grief camps that she co-facilitated with the Friendship Ambassadors a group which fosters dialogues with the United Nations and Lions International. Christine also authored the article "Putting All My Problems In Perspective", for which she was awarded the 2001 Standard Literary Prize. In 2000, she founded Robert’s Press, Canada’s Grief Resource Centre. In 2014 she took over her families corporation within the trucking industry. As a corporate business woman and a creator and leader of a social enterprise, she was named one of Niagara’s most successful business-women, as well as a 2001 finalist for Woman of The Year and Entrepreneur of The Year.
“You are not defined by what happens to you in life, it is how you handle the trauma that defines who you are.”
In 2002, Christine was awarded the Leadership and Communication Award by the Toastmasters Public Speaking Organization for her exceptional communication and professional speaking skills. Seeing a need for the exploration of empathy and courage, she later created the Empathy Bear which is used worldwide to bring comfort and compassion to the grieving. Her claymation story entitled, Where is My Courage? supported the families of the 2016 Fort McMurray, Alberta wild-fires. In 2017, she earned the Distinguished Alumni of the Year Award and was also selected as finalist for the 2019 Community Impact Award.
Two decades of working in the field of grief and trauma inspired the author to write Thank You:
The Power of Presence with the Grieving and Dy-ing. In 2020, responding to losses due to Covid-19, Christine released Cora and the Corona. More than 7,500 copies of the book were donated to mental health essential services, and a follow up program was created to foster dialogues about children’s mental well-being during the pandemic.
In 2020 the release of Dying to Live, Learn To Live A Full Life From Your Lived Ex-periences, expanded Christine’s career to explore the roots of addiction, generational grief and ancestral grief. In 2023 Christine worked along side with Indigenous Communities and Reserves in creating and facilitating full day grief camps. Through this collaboration the publication and facilitator training Camp S.O.A.R. Spirits Our Ancestors Rekindled A Community Grief Camp was released. The success of the grief camps inspired the 2024 release of The podcast Grief Up-rooted an open discussion about grief, courage and resiliency.
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Professional Grief & Empowerment Coaching are not to be used as a substitute for professional advice by legal, medical, financial, business,
spiritual or other qualified professionals. All our products and services are designed for grief, empowerment through learning and sharing of lived experiences.