The professional literature on grief focuses extensively on identification, diagnosis, and treatment, offering evidence-based models for reducing distress, processing loss, and strengthening adjustment. However, the issue of ending care often receives less attention, despite its clinical importance—especially in grief therapy, where separation is at the heart of the experience.

• When is it appropriate to end treatment for loss and grief?

• How can we work with the experience of separation - without reliving or avoiding further loss?

• What does a "good ending" look like in grief treatment? One that allows for continuity and not just separation?

This evening, we will consider the end of treatment as a transitional space for reviewing the path taken, strengthening the ability to move, and creating continuity and integration of grief and mourning into the fabric of life. We ask that you think of the end not as an endpoint, but as a transition – to the possibility of living alongside the loss, while maintaining a continuous inner connection with the deceased and a renewed turn to a life that has meaning and connection.

Miad Morag , a clinical psychologist and instructor. Specializes in treating crisis situations, loss and bereavement and is a recognized therapist by the National Insurance Institute and the Ministry of Defense. Facilitates therapy groups for processing bereavement and traumatic loss. Lectures and trains therapeutic teams throughout the country in the field of grief and loss processing, as part of the 'Nafshim' Institute for Research and Teaching of Psychotherapy at the School of Integrative Psychotherapy at Ben-Gurion University and at the 'Clinical Applications' School of Psychotherapy.

Dr. Avital Gershfeld Litwin , a medical psychologist and instructor. Engages in treatment, research, teaching, training and mentoring of care professionals in the fields of illness, disability, loss, grief and bereavement. Serves as head of the medical psychology department at the Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic and coordinator of the loss and grief unit at the Mifarashim Institute for Psychotherapy Research and Teaching. Since 2018, she has served as chair of the professional committee for medical psychology on behalf of the Ministry of Health.