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A new way to tend to grief, together (enrolling now)

Published 2 months ago • 1 min read

Hello Reader,

It's been a while since you've heard from me in this format — but I'm glad to be back in your inbox with something I've been building: a new grief integration group for therapists and care workers, open for applications now.​

You may be thinking…

  • I am a burnt out therapist / caring professional with a heavy heart, looking for space to get to know my grief without being swallowed by it.
  • I am processing a complicated, unacknowledged or invisible/ambient loss. I'm aware I'm grieving, but in ways that don't fit the typical grief group.
  • I want to integrate my personal losses and the grief I witness daily into my life and healing practice.

If any of that resonates, I built this for you.

​Shaping Grief: An Integration Group for Care Workers is an 8-session group guiding therapists and helping professionals into a deeper, more intentional relationship with change and loss. We'll use writing, ritual, guided practice, and reflective conversation to meet the web of grief connecting us to one another — exploring the layers of ambiguous, disenfranchised, vicarious, unresolved, or complicated grief that have gone unacknowledged.

This group is:

  • A community for therapists and care workers in the practice of shaping grief
  • A virtual space to explore grief across many layers of your experience: personal, intergenerational, professional, embodied & systemic
  • A place to ritualize, play, and shape your own grief-tending practice in supportive community

This group is not a typical bereavement group, or a space focused on processing the death of a loved one.

The details: 8 live sessions · 1st & 3rd Wednesdays · September 2 – December 16, 2026 · 2:45–4:30pm EST

All the details on participation, schedule and finances can be found on my Shaping Grief webpage.

Cohort membership is capped at 12 members, and applications close August 1. I hope you join us.

Know a therapist, body worker, care provider or helping professional that is shaping their relationship to grief? Send this email their way!

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Feel free to reply directly if you have questions about this offering—or just want to say hello 🩵

With deep care,
Dani

Dani Sullivan, LCSW (they/them)

Licensed Therapist, Coach & Author

Founder and CEO, Intentions Therapy​

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