Dr. Dillon is available to speak at your engagements or for educational programming. Dr. Dillon draws on the personal loss of her daughter and her 11 years of professional practice in grief to speak with understanding, candor, and humor on the experience of loss. Her educational offerings aim to help all in the community of grief, from those grieving to those who support and work with them.

Topics include:

Foundational Understanding of Grief

• Grief 101: What Every Human Should Know
  A compassionate primer on what grief is—and what it isn’t. Covers emotional, physical, and social dimensions of grief.

• Navigating the Path of Grief
  Explores the non-linear and lifelong nature of grief, including how we carry loss across time.

• How Society Misses the Mark on Grief
  A critical look at cultural grief norms, timelines, and how we misunderstand grief. Includes practical alternatives.

• Historical Lessons on Grief
  Examines how death, mourning, and remembrance practices have changed—and what we’ve lost along the way.

Grief Across Life Events & Contexts

• Pregnancy Loss & Stillbirth
  Offers a trauma-informed lens for understanding grief after miscarriage, or stillbirth. Addresses disenfranchised grief, medical retraumatization, and support strategies for families and providers.

• Grieving Through the Holidays
  Strategies for facing culturally loaded seasons while grieving.

• Anticipatory Grief & Ambiguous Loss
  Distinguishing between types of grief that arise before death or in the context of uncertain or social loss (e.g., dementia, estrangement, medical trauma).

• Parenting While Grieving
  How to support surviving children while mourning the death of another.

• Traumatic Deaths & the Grief That Follows

  Understand how sudden, violent, or unexpected losses affect trauma processing, trust, and meaning-making. Offers guidance for both professionals and loved ones.

Supporting Others Through Grief

• How to Show Up for the Grieving
  Teaches friends, families, and professionals how to support someone in deep pain without trying to “fix” it.

• Working with Bereaved Clients: A Trauma- & Grief-Informed Approach
  Designed for therapists, medical teams, educators, clergy, or anyone in a support role. Includes real-world scripts and scenarios.

• Creating a Culture of Grief Literacy in Your Organization
  Tailored for HR teams, leadership, schools, or healthcare orgs seeking to build more compassionate systems.

Meaning-Making & Legacy

• Building Legacy in Grief
  Explores legacy-building as a form of ongoing connection, not closure.

• Creative Tools for Grief: Writing, Art & Storytelling
  Hands-on workshop using reflection and artistic practices to process loss and honor loved ones.

Specialized & Professional Offerings

• Grief-Informed Healthcare
  For medical providers and staff. Covers how language, environment, and systems retraumatize or support grieving families.

• Supporting Families After a Sudden & Traumatic Death
  Deep dive into child loss, SIDS/SUDC, and acute grief responses. Designed for first responders, ME offices, hospital teams, etc.

• When the Provider is the Griever
  Supporting healthcare professionals grieving their own losses while doing emotionally demanding work.

• Differentiating Grief from Other Mental Health Disorders

  Clarifies common clinical misunderstandings and offers tools for more accurate assessment and compassionate care.

To schedule a workshop with Dr. Dillon, please contact us