Programs

The Mourning After

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When someone we love dies, it can feel as though an important part of ourselves has suddenly vanished.  It is often hard to imagine continuing to live through the pain and turmoil of grief.  This grief counseling program uses a wide range of interactive and creative interventions to assist in the healing process.  It is designed to help participants:

  • Understand predictable reactions to loss.
  • Express powerful emotions such as anger, guilt or a sense of abandonment.
  • Cope with the demands of new roles.
  • Learn relaxation skills.
  • Initiate positive personal growth.
  • Find comfort learning that they are not alone.

Humanity Players

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Humanity Players is a dramatic, interactive community education program that utilizes original educational dramatizations by actors along with audience members to highlight normal and complicated emotional responses to loss. The dramatizations pertain to areas such as death of a loved one, extreme change in financial resources, life threatening illness, changing residences, divorce, empty nest and immigration loss.

GIERS: Grief Information, Education & Recovery Services is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization founded and directed by Bernice Garfield-Szita, MS, LPC, TEP and Robert Szita, MS, LPC, TEP, 9 South Main Street, Marlboro, NJ.  GIERS will provide services to assist individuals, families, and organizations recovering from a wide range of losses.  Using a variety of therapeutic modalities including creative arts and action techniques, these services will include education and counseling that will help develop coping skills to facilitate a successful transition toward a healthy recovery.  GIERS will also educate and train helping professionals and other community members to understand and aid people experiencing grief.

CONTACT US:
PH: 732-577-1076
EMAIL: [email protected]