Expert Qualifications
This expert has over 25 years of experience as a grief counselor, specializing in parental grief, child and adolescent grief, suicide bereavement and other complicated grief issues. He is author of a book covering grief and loss and numerous professional and popular publications. He is currently an international keynote speaker, consults to law firms, human service professionals, schools, businesses, hospitals and hospices, and maintains a private grief counseling practice.
Bio Snapshot
- Location: Massachusetts
- B.S., State University of New York New Paltz
- M.A., Counseling Psychology, Child and Family Counseling, Antioch University New England Graduate School
- Active License: MA
- Board Certification, Clinical Social Worker
- Fellowship, Thanatology, Association for Death Education and Counseling
- Former, Chairperson, Suicide Bereavement Taskforce
- Former, Member, Western Mass Coalition to Improve End-of-Life Care
- Former, Chair of Board of Directors, Cove-Northampton
- Former, Co-Chair, ADEC Specialty Workshops Committee
- Former, Co-Chairperson, Counseling and Support Committee, Hampden AIDS Task Force
- Former, Counselor in Psychotherapy, River Valley Counseling Center
- Former, Bereavement Program Director, Baystate Medical Center
- Former, Coordinator, Bereavement Services, Mary Washington Hospice
- Former, Coordinator, Bereavement Services, Hospice of the South Shore
- Current, Seminar Leader in Bereavement at a national academy of bereavement
- Current, Grief counselor at a private counseling practice firm
