Family Therapy Best Practices: The Near-Death Experience and Spiritual Emergency’s – How to Listen and Support intact Crucial Conversations

Abstract

As clinicians, there is often a struggle as to how to help family members understand the needs of someone who has had a near-death experience or a spiritual emergency. Learn the four elements to help you navigate this unknown territory with your clients. The four elements will enable you to listen with clarity, help them curate and identify their narratives, clarify how their perspectives have changed and how they presently interact, and respond to the here and now. The triangle of Grief, Fear, and Joy interacts with the triangle of family, friends, and professional relationships. From isolation to secrets learn 3 specific interactive tasks to help break through the misunderstandings that lead to isolation, and the sense that secrets are the only way to be safe.

Presenter Bio

Edy Nathan, MA, LCSW, CST is a licensed psychotherapist and certified sex therapist with over 20 years of experience specializing in the integration of psychotherapy and the world of spirituality. She is a certified EMDR practitioner, regression therapist, and certified Hypnotherapist. In her expertise as a grief therapist, she interweaves her formal training as a psychotherapist with her views on trauma, abuse, and death. She believes that everyone experiences grief throughout their lives. Grief is not just about the death of a loved one, but the losses we experience in life. Having trained with renowned past life therapy regressionist, Brian Weiss, MD, spiritual leader Thomas Moore, PhD, and shamanic healer, Hank Wesselman, PhD.

Edy draws on her training to create a wide repertoire of tools that help people learn to live with their grief. Edy Nathan MA, LCSWR is an author, keynote speaker, workshop leader. She combines her works as a therapist with her work within the spiritual realm. As a licensed therapist, AASECT certified sex therapist, hypnotherapist, regressionist and certified EMDR practitioner with more than 20 years of experience. She has degrees from New York University and Fordham University, with post-graduate training at the Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy. She practices in New York City. She was the therapist on A&E tv’s Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal. She specializes in grief, loss and trauma throughout the life cycle and spiritual awakenings.