Lara Krawchuk has been practicing as a clinical social worker for over 30 years, specializing in grief, living losses and trauma in her psychotherapy practice. She has an intimate connection to the losses people suffer and is an expert in holding the "tough stuff" for her clients. Lara has a tremendous capacity for helping her clients maintain hope and move towards healing.
Lara offers trainings and continuing education classes through her clinical practice and in affiliation with The Portland Institute for Loss and Transition. She is passionate about teaching helping professionals how to exquisitely listen, help heal burdens and make our broken-hearted world a better place. She shares her wisdom using a potent mix of scholarly knowledge, creativity, compassion, and wit in her many CEU classes, podcast interviews and book chapters.
Lara has been a beloved adjunct professor at the MSW program at the University of Pennsylvania for almost two decades where she teaches courses on clinical practice and loss and grief. She simply adores the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model! She is a certified IFS therapist and Level 1 Consultant. She has done countless hours of training with many highly respected lead trainers and absolutely loves helping clients and helping professionals find their way to this magnificent model of care.
Listeners, if you'd like to get in touch with Lara, visit the Healing Concepts website!
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