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Dr. Jennifer R. Levin: Workplace Trauma Strategist and Author of ‘The Traumatic Loss Workbook’
Helping organizations and leaders reduce disruption and foster resilience after sudden loss.
Jennifer R. Levin, PhD, LMFT, FT, is a nationally recognized expert in unexpected loss, traumatic grief, and workplace trauma. As founder of Traumatic Grief Solutions, she helps companies, schools, and communities respond effectively to sudden loss and disruptive change — including suicide, health events, violence, overdose, accidents, and other crises.
Her new book, “The Traumatic Loss Workbook: Powerful Skills for Navigating the Grief Caused by a Sudden or Unexpected Death” (New Harbinger Publications, July 2025), and online course, “A Guided Path to Healing," provide practical tools to help readers cope with grief, process trauma, and find meaning again. She developed these resources over a decade of working with clients in Therapy Heals, Inc., her private therapy practice supporting individuals living with sudden or unexpected loss.
Each year US businesses lose over $100 billion from employee absenteeism, reduced productivity, and employee turnover related to grief in the workplace, according to “The Cost of Dying 2024” from Empathy.com. Through Traumatic Grief Solutions, Dr. Levin provides crisis response consulting and proactively engages leadership in training and preparedness strategies for unexpected loss and traumatic events within their communities.
Consultant | Podcaster | Founder of Traumatic Grief Solutions
For over 30 years, Dr. Levin has helped organizations and individuals recover from the chaos of unexpected loss. Through Traumatic Grief Solutions, she helps leaders:
- Respond confidently and compassionately to sudden employee deaths.
- Support teams after layoffs or collective trauma.
- Build trauma-informed policies that promote resilience.
- Create psychologically safe environments where healing is possible.
- Turn disruption into long-term cultural strength and adaptability.
She is also the host of “Untethered: Healing the Pain From a Sudden Death,” a podcast that explores how individuals navigate traumatic loss and build resilience. Her new podcast “Traumatic Grief: The Human Side of Business," explores how business leaders face loss, trauma and adversity within the workplace.
Fellow in Thanatology | Clinical and Organizational Expertise
With 30+ years of experience in thanatology (the study of death, dying, and bereavement), Dr. Levin is one of fewer than 300 mental health professionals worldwide recognized as a Fellow in Thanatology — the highest professional credential in the field. Her specialized focus is traumatic grief — the kind that destabilizes individuals, fractures teams, and challenges institutional leadership.
Traumatic Grief Solutions supports organizations with proactive grief planning, crisis response training, and post-traumatic growth strategies that help leaders and teams adapt after sudden loss. Dr. Levin’s proprietary five-step model equips organizations to respond to traumatic events with structure and compassion — minimizing disruption, restoring safety, and reengaging employees.
Through her therapy practice, Dr. Levin offers compassionate, trauma-informed care rooted in both evidence-based psychology and the science of thanatology. She specializes in holding hope when clients feel none and helps them move from raw trauma toward a life that still holds meaning. Over the years, she has developed a unique treatment model and practical clinical tools that blend emotional regulation, CBT, mindfulness, and meaning-making to support post-traumatic growth.
‘The Traumatic Loss Workbook’: A Practical Roadmap for Healing & Growth
“The Traumatic Loss Workbook: Powerful Skills for Navigating the Grief Caused by a Sudden or Unexpected Death” offers a first-of-its-kind guide specifically created for those navigating grief after a sudden or traumatic loss. Whether the loss was due to suicide, overdose, accident, medical crisis, or violent event, this book addresses the unique emotional, psychological, and physiological challenges that arise in the aftermath.
“Jennifer Levin’s workbook provides guidance and assurance: You are not alone. You can find your way through grief and uncertainty.”
— Donna Schuurman, EdD, Dougy Center, The National Grief Center for Children & Families
The workbook is organized into 12 skill-building chapters that gently guide readers through trauma stabilization, emotional regulation, grief integration, and meaning-making. Early chapters help readers understand the nature of traumatic grief, process their shattered assumptions, and regain a sense of safety and control. Later chapters explore grief attacks, anniversaries, long-term triggers, and how to rebuild a meaningful life in the presence of ongoing pain. Key tools include trauma symptom assessments, guided journaling, grief goal setting, and exercises that can be done solo or with a therapist.
Her online course, “Traumatic Loss Companion Course: A Guided Path to Healing,” is more personal and supportive. In this course, participants can connect with her directly as both the narrator and author: seeing and hearing her explain key concepts, guiding them through new exercises, and offering a steady voice to return to when the weight of grief feels unbearable. They also gain valuable insights from other health professionals and hear real experiences from individuals learning to live life after an unexpected loss.
A licensed therapist for almost 14 years, Dr. Levin is based in Whidbey Island, Washington, and works nationally as a speaker, educator, and crisis responder. Her mission is to help people feel seen, supported, and empowered to live with their loss — not in spite of it, but alongside it.
PRESS RELEASE 9/17/25 Podcast Episode Explores Suicide Awareness and Prevention
PRESS RELEASE 7/1/25 The Traumatic Loss Workbook
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For business support, please visit TraumaticGrief Solutions.com.
One-on-one support? Visit TherapyHeals.com.