Claudia Coenen, CGC, FT, MTP, is a grief counselor and a fellow in thanatology with a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology with a focus on creativity.  She maintains a private practice in Hudson, NY, helping bereaved clients coping with the death of someone close, or with other grief related issues, such as divorce, transitional losses or illness.  Claudia presents workshops and talks on the benefits of a creative approach to grief, and on anxiety, vicarious trauma and pandemic grief.  Claudia is the author of The Karuna Cards, a deck of creative ideas for grief and difficult life transitions, Shattered by Grief: Picking Up the Pieces to Become WHOLE Again and The Creative Toolkit for Working with Grief and Bereavement: A Practitioners Guide.