THE HEAL SERIES – Hope, Empathy, Acceptance & Learning
Session 3: Caring, Grief and Living in Limbo
Date: Tuesday 17 November
Time: 11.00AM – 12.30 PM
Location: Zoom online
Facilitators: Lainie Terbogt and Kathryn Eberly Family Therapy – Restoring Families
About the HEAL Series
The HEAL series—Hope, Empathy, Acceptance and Learning—focuses on the impact of caring. Each session combines psychoeducation, group facilitation, shared lived experience, and practical tools and strategies that carers can apply in their caring role.
Carers may choose to participate in one, two, three, or all four sessions.
Session Overview
Caring creates deep attachment, connection and love. Alongside these meaningful relationships, carers may also experience grief, ambiguous loss and ongoing uncertainty that often goes unseen or unrecognised. This workshop validates the hidden impact of caring-related grief, explores how it can be understood through an attachment lens, and offers practical strategies to support healing, resilience and emotional wellbeing.
Presenters
Lainie Terbogt and Kathryn Eberly are highly experienced social workers and family therapists. They have worked in the out-of-home care system for more than 20 years and, through their private practice, Restoring Families, have supported more than 500 carer families.
Over the past six years, more than 300 kinship and foster carers have participated in their training sessions. Lainie and Kathryn have presented at the national Kinship and Foster Carer Conference, as well as other summits and symposiums, and have previously delivered training for Carer Kafe.
The session is designed for kinship, foster and permanent carers.
