He works with all kinds of bereaved people but specializes in helping those who have experienced a traumatic death (a death caused by a person, misfortune, catastrophe, or acute affliction, such as suicide, homicide, accidental injury, medical emergency, or natural disaster). The sessions he facilitates are not “counseling” or “treatment,” and he is not a mental health clinician. The Personal Grief Coaching approach to helping traumatically bereaved people is described below, and source documents are cited that further explain the principles on which it is founded: