Meghan Riordan-Jarvis

Clinical Social Worker

Meghan Riordan-Jarvis, MA, LICSW, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who has spent the past 20 years working in the field of grief and loss providing trauma informed care to hundreds of clients in her private psychotherapy practice.

A former teacher, Meghan advocates for grief education through her lectures, writing and online courses. After losing both her parents within two years of each other, she started the popular blog “Grief is My Side Hustle.”

Despite being a trauma therapist, Meghan was hospitalized herself due to the emotional after-effects and PTSD triggered by her mother’s death in 2019.

Meghan is working on a memoir due out in 2021 about growing through grief rather than recovering from it.

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Participant Testimonials

“I signed up to the Shapes Of Grief Training Programme last year and it is the best learning that I have come across, both personally and professionally, in the seven years since my daughter died. For us professionals working with grief and loss, it is crucial that we are grief-educated.”

Kathy Lapsley

"The Shapes of Grief course is honestly more than just a worthwhile CPD experience. The quality of the content, the depth of the topics covered, the wealth of material and the emotional integrity at the centre of all of the modules - it is a course that has deepened my knowledge of grief and the grieving process".

Mary-Kate Kelly, Psychotherapist, Cancer Care West

“This is the most comprehensive and thorough Grief Education Programme that’s out there, I know, because I’ve tried them all! The bereaved deserve our best support and this training will help you to provide that.”

Kathy, Psychotherapy Student, UK