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Life Transitions Specialist Certificate: Clinical Skills for Life Changes that Cause Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Identity Shifts & More

Become the trusted specialist clients turn to when life shifts beneath them

As a therapist, you know change is constant.

You're the one clients turn to when "normal" transitions — like a breakup, a move, retirement, becoming a parent, or aging — stir up everything underneath.

Old traumas resurface. Grief that was tucked away rushes back in waves. And what once felt steady — roles, relationships, sense of self — suddenly dissolves.

These transitions aren't just changes. They're psychological earthquakes that shake the very foundations of your clients.

But with the right support, these transitions become transformative opportunities for growth, resilience, and renewal.

That's exactly what you can offer clients as a Life Transitions Specialist.

In this truly one-of-a-kind Life Transition Specialist Certificate course, you'll learn from some of the most distinguished experts in the field of psychotherapy — including Dr. Sara Kuburic, "The Millennial Therapist," leading traumatologists Dr. Janina Fisher and Dr. Arielle Schwartz, plus you'll hear from grief expert Claire Bidwell Smith and bestselling author on relationships, Dr. Alexandra Solomon.

These experts will equip you to show up ready in pivotal, tender moments to help clients move forward. Skillfully…

  • Understand and identify the emotional patterns that arise during major life transitions
  • Work with grief, anxiety, and identity shifts through a non-pathologizing lens
  • Provide stabilization, structure, and hope when clients feel lost or overwhelmed
  • Differentiate between clinical symptoms and normal human responses to change
  • Build treatment plans that honor your clients' stories and promote self-awareness

PLUS, you get TWO free bonus trainings on helping clients through medical trauma, injuries, illness, and breakups or divorce — over $199, FREE!

By the end of this course, you'll be able to meet clients exactly where they are and guide them through life's hardest chapters with clarity, warmth, and clinical integrity.

Because when your clients are going through life changes, they don't need a label…

They need a healer who gets it. Become a Life Transitions Specialist now!

Life Transitions Specialist Certificate
Clinical Skills for Life Changes that Cause Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Identity Shifts & More
$899.90 Value — Only  $299.95 (GST Inclusive)!
ENROLL NOW
Earn up to 17.0 CPD Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for CPD details | Click here for course objectives and outline
What therapists are saying…
Five Stars

"Enlightening! — Brandi D., Social Worker - Community Mental Health

"Dr. Arielle Schwartz was a wealth of information and I felt as though I could not learn enough from her.— Jeanne R., Counsellor

"Creative approach.— Jill L., Counsellor/Psychotherapist

"Very informative and interesting. Really enjoyed the material. Absolutely loved this presentation. Can also be applied in the everyday life of a clinician as well.— Lisa B.,

"This course was incredibly enlightening and significantly impacted my perspective.— Shelia P., Nursing Education

Life Transition Specialist Certificate Outline
Start by learning how to help clients coming in with life's "biggest questions" and identity shifts. Then, learn how to lay the foundation for growth and resilience with neuroplasticity-based strategies. In module three, you'll learn to treat grief in its many forms, a part of almost any transition. Next, learn concrete strategies for anxiety and worry to help clients feel grounded during life changes. In the final modules, you'll learn skills for shame, regret, and forgiveness — so clients can move on to life's next chapter.
Module 1: Identity Shifts, Disconnection, and Finding Existential Meaning
Featuring Dr. Sara Kuburic

Confidently guide clients in exploring their sense of self, uncovering who they truly are, and living with greater authenticity. Be able to…

  • Differentiate between mental health struggles and broader existential concerns
  • Develop an effective treatment plan that addresses both mental health and existential issues
  • Skillfully address life's big questions and break them down into achievable therapeutic goals
  • Navigate your own existential and identity concerns
Module 2: Processing Grief and Ambiguous Losses with Narrative Therapy
Featuring Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC

Gain grief-focused Narrative Therapy techniques to help clients through almost any life transition. You'll learn…

  • Manage grief-related anxieties with targeted writing exercises
  • Use journaling and grief letters to help promote continuing bonds in grieving clients
  • Cope and empower them to construct meaning following loss with specific writing prompts
Module 3: Enhancing Neuroplasticity for Growth and Resilience
Featuring Dr. Arielle Schwartz

Equip your toolbox with 'the six pillars of resilience' to facilitate a strength-based approach to trauma recovery. You'll learn to:

  • Guide clients in revising their trauma narratives in a way that supports growth
  • Help clients attend to the impact of traumatic events on the body so they can build vagal tone and vagal efficiency—an embodied experience of safety and receptivity
  • Harness the client's inherent resilience by building on protective factors that help prevent PTSD
  • Help clients integrate new movement resources and release traumatic activation
Module 4: Making Sense of Anxiety & Stress in the Face of Change
Featuring Dr. Ellen Vora

Skillfully help clients eliminate unnecessary anxiety and guide them toward meaningful action. Be able to…

  • Discern avoidable from purposeful anxiety
  • Understand 'the fear response' and reframe thoughts in affirming ways
  • Know how nutrition, blood sugar, GI health, and more impact nervous system health
Module 5: Transforming Regret to Create Self-Forgiveness
Featuring Dr. Jelena Kecmanovic

Help clients find relief from regret that often leads to shame, rumination, self-criticism, and a host of other problems. Be able to…

  • Increase self-compassion using meditation, guided imagery, somatic techniques, and expressive writing
  • Guide clients toward making amends to find peace
  • Improve emotional awareness and reduce rumination by expanding emotional vocabulary, differentiating emotions, locating them in the body, and enacting them
  • Stimulate radical acceptance of both feelings and reality while boosting flexibility
  • Use regret to clarify what's important in life, make amends, and improve future actions
Module 6: Undoing Shame, Self-Criticism, & Self-Doubt
Featuring Dr. Janina Fisher

Discover how to help clients navigate the paradox of progress — where growth can trigger new layers of shame. Explore how to…

  • Accept the role of shame in life and as part of traumatic events
  • Undo negative beliefs that fuel feelings of inferiority and unworthiness
  • Connect with and move through feelings of shame to make space for more pride and self-love
Confidently help clients coming in with life's "biggest questions" and identity shifts. Lay the groundwork for resilience with neuroplasticity-based strategies. Transform grief into healing, help clients find calm in the midst of anxiety and worry, and equip them to feel grounded during change. Refine your skills in addressing shame, regret, and forgiveness — so every client you work with can step forward into their next chapter with strength and clarity.
Life Transitions Specialist Certificate
Clinical Skills for Life Changes that Cause Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Identity Shifts & More
$899.90 Value — Only  $299.95 (GST Inclusive)!
ENROLL NOW
Earn up to 17.0 CPD Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for CPD details | Click here for course objectives and outline
BONUS! $199.95 Value, TWO FREE Trainings!
Medical Trauma, Injury and Illness: Strategies and Supports for Coping and Adaptation
Featuring Dr. Sacha McBain

In this timely session, Dr. Sacha McBain will show you how clinicians can work with the grief that often follows medical trauma, help clients cope with and adapt to their losses, and support them as they shape a new sense of identity and purpose for themselves. You'll discover:

  • The ecological model of medical trauma and how to do case formulation
  • Trauma-informed interventions to address unique losses and grief from injury, illness, and more
  • How to help clients adapt to changes and avoid perpetuating complicated grief
Helping Clients Navigate Ending Relationships, Breakups, and Divorce
Featuring Dr. Alexandra Solomon

Learning relational meta skills can help clients approach endings—and new beginnings—with more integrity and Relational Self-Awareness. Discover an integrative approach for helping your clients better understand the thoughts, feelings, and common issues that arise during a breakup, as well as integrating the loss and preparing to begin dating again. You'll explore:

  • How to teach Relational Self-Awareness as an essential meta skill to navigate, clarify boundaries, and make sense of relationship endings
  • How to help clients advocate for their relational needs with romantic partners
  • An integrative approach to helping clients move from fear and relational ambivalence toward empowerment and clarity
Meet Your Course Experts
Sara Kuburic
Dr. Sara Kuburic, The Millennial Therapist

Dr. Kubric is an existential psychotherapist, consultant, former columnist for USA Today, and the author of It's On Me. She's also known as the millennial therapist — a title inherited as a result of her Instagram account, where she has a community of over 1.7m followers.

Click here for information about Sara Kuburic
Janina Fisher
Dr. Janina Fisher, Pioneer in Trauma Treatment

 Working with individuals, couples, and families since 1980, Dr. Fisher is a pioneer in the field of trauma treatment and co-founded Bessel van der Kolk's Boston Trauma Center. Dr. Fisher is best known for her work in sensorimotor psychotherapy, neurobiology, and integrating newer trauma paradigms into traditional trauma modalities.

Click here for information about Janina Fisher
Alexandra Solomon
Dr. Alexandra Solomon, Bestselling Relationship Expert

Recognized as one of today's most trusted voices in relationships, Dr. Solomon's Relational Self-Awareness framework has reached millions around the globe. Dr. Alexandra is passionate about translating cutting-edge research and clinical wisdom into practical tools. She translates her academic and therapeutic experience to the public through her popular Instagram page, which has garnered over 220k followers.

Click here for information about Alexandra Solomon
Claire Bidwell Smith
Claire Bidwell Smith, LPCP, Leading Grief Expert.

Recognized as one of today's foremost experts on grief, Claire Bidwell Smith is a licensed therapist, international speaker, and the author of five books published in 22 countries. Led by her own experience in grief and fueled by her work in hospice and private practice, Claire strives to provide support for all kinds of people experiencing all kinds of loss.

Click here for information about Claire Bidwell Smith
Arielle Schwart
Dr. Arielle Schwartz, World-Leading Traumatologist

Dr. Schwartz is among the most important voices in psychotherapy today. She's renowned for her expertise in various areas of trauma resiliency and treatment. Trained in EMDR, somatic psychology, and yoga, among other areas, Dr. Schwartz has authored more than four books, and her trainings are sought after internationally.

Click here for information about Arielle Schwartz
Sacha McBain
Dr. Sacha McBain, Crisis & Recovery Expert

Dr. McBain provides training and consultation on the implementation of trauma-informed care practices and health care worker wellness initiatives designed to prevent PTSD. She is known for her work in mental health care following traumatic medical events, injuries, and illnesses.

Click here for information about Sacha McBain
Jelena Kecmanovic
Dr. Jelena Kecmanovic, Renowned Anxiety Expert

Dr. Kecmanovic is a clinical psychologist known for her frequent contributions to The Washington Post and other popular outlets. She is also the founding director of the Arlington/DC Behavior Therapy Institute.

Click here for information about Jelena Kecmanovic
Ellen Vora
Ellen Vora, MD, Bestselling Anxiety Author

Dr. Vora is a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, and yoga teacher, and she is the author of the bestselling book The Anatomy of Anxiety. She takes a functional medicine approach to mental health — considering the whole person and addressing imbalance at the root.

Click here for information about Ellen Vora
Life Transitions Specialist Certificate
Clinical Skills for Life Changes that Cause Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Identity Shifts & More
$899.90 Value — Only  $299.95 (GST Inclusive)!
ENROLL NOW
Earn up to 17.0 CPD Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for CPD details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Frequently Asked Questions

Therapists who specialize in life transitions work with a wide variety of clients in almost any clinical setting to help guide clients through life changes. Many clients come to therapy during periods where there are lots of changes in life, whether in roles or responsibilities, or simply internal feelings. Specializing in this area means enhancing your skill set with understanding and concrete clinical tools to help clients going through anything from moving in with a romantic partner to having an existential crisis, getting promoted at work, or losing a family member.

The incredible faculty in this training teach from integrative and practical modalities that are easy to use in your practice. You'll learn strategies from Narrative Therapy, neuroscience, somatic psychology, sensorimotor psychotherapy, existential therapy, trauma-informed care, behavior science, and more. This course helps you to build a diverse clinical toolset so you can truly help any client coming through your door.

A certificate is a document issued upon the completion of a training program. It signifies that you have trained on specific skills, have trained with a particular individual, or have acquired knowledge in a particular subject.

Certification, on the other hand, often requires you to meet specific standards, pass rigorous exams, and many even include additional practice, consultation, supervision, evaluations, and ongoing continuing education requirements. While you will need to pass an exam, this course does not include many of these elements — making this a "certificate" program.

So while there are a lot of "certifications" out there — including some that are not endorsed by an actual certifying body or even taught by a licensed trainer — you need to be the judge of what adds value to your work and your ability to help your clients.

This certificate does distinguish you as a professional who has trained more extensively in the area of guiding clients through life transitions with experts… and it's an acknowledgment that can set you apart in the eyes of clients and peers.

You'll have access to all modules immediately, including the bonus training, all slides, resources, and more!
 
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Life Transitions Specialist Certificate
Clinical Skills for Life Changes that Cause Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Identity Shifts & More
$899.90 Value — Only  $299.95 (GST Inclusive)!
ENROLL NOW
Earn up to 17.0 CPD Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for CPD details | Click here for course objectives and outline
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