Kelly Daugherty, LCSW, PLLC

10/27/2025

10/27/2025

Part of the Transforming Grief Virtual Symposium | November 5–7, 2025

Many parents are unprepared for the emotional complexity of an empty nest. What’s often seen as a normal life transition can actually surface deep feelings of grief, identity loss, and disconnection.

In this session, I’ll explore Empty Nest Syndrome through a grief-informed lens, helping clinicians recognize the nuanced grief that arises when children leave home. We’ll discuss:

-How to distinguish between adjustment, grief, and clinical depression

-The role of ambiguous and disenfranchised grief in the empty nest experience

-Practical, evidence-informed interventions to support parents in transition

-Compounded grief when parents have experienced the death of a child

This is a virtual event open to mental health professionals, educators, and anyone supporting families through transition. Check out the other workshops being presented as well.

Register or learn more- Link is in the comments

10/24/2025

Tomorrow we welcome our participants to our Fall Induced After Death Communication Retreat. It is such an honor to allow space for our clients to grieve together in community. They will receive After-Death Communication Therapy, Reiki, rituals, and more. So grateful to be a part of their grief journey and look forward to the weekend of healing and connection.

10/22/2025

Grief doesn’t ask us to forget — it asks us to evolve.

In this week’s episode, Kelly and Karyn unpack how grief reshapes who we are, how we see ourselves, and what self-compassion really looks like in the process.
💬 Listen now to Evolving Through Grief: Embracing Change and Complexity — a conversation about growing, not “getting over.”

🎧 Available now on all podcast platforms.

10/22/2025