(WC 94745 MARTINEZ 2025) Ritual in Therapy Clinical Tools for Grief, Transition & Transformation

Course overview

Ritual offers a language beyond words - one that helps clients hold grief, trauma, and identify shifts with depth and meaning. In therapy, ritual can create powerful moments of meaning-making, mark important transitions, and foster emotional integration in ways that feel deeply resonant. Drawing on her clinical experience as a marriage and family therapist, licensed psychoanalyst, and educator on ritual and healing, Rebecca Brau Martinez will show you how to integrate ritual into practice in ways that are culturally responsive, clinically ethical, and emotionally transformative. You'll learn how to: Spot the key moments when ritual can move clients past stuck grief, trauma, or identify struggles Use culturally responsive frameworks to reframe life's tensions as sources of growth and meaning Co-create rituals that honor spiritual and cultural traditions while supporting healing and transformation