Episode 6: The Many Faces of Grief in Healthcare

In this resonant episode of The Symptom Media Podcast: Bridging the Divide in Mental Health, host Dr. Lindi van Niekerk is joined by grief clinicians Danielle Glorioso, LCSW, and Amanda VerWys, ACSW, to examine a constant, yet unseen companion in healthcare: grief. Opening up about their own personal bereavement and sharing their clinical experience, Danielle and Amanda take on common myths and help us define the difference between grief and mourning. Through this conversation we’ll explore the myriad ways grief can arise, not only from a loss, but identity shifts, moral distress, and systemic failures.

Most importantly, their experience offers tangible practices for clinicians and institutions: psychoeducation, peer support, gentle self-disclosure, and simple embodied routines to help integrate rather than suppress grief. This is a call for all of us to remember that only together can we reduce isolation and stigma, and build cultures where everyone, including the caregiver, can heal.

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For more information about the resources shared in this episode you can visit:

• Danielle Glorioso’s Grief Therapy Site  

• Columbia University Center for Prolonged Grief

• UC San Diego Stein Institute for Research on Aging

• UCSD’S Health & Physician Wellness Infrastructure