Maegan P. Brooks

Maegan P. Brooks, PhD, is Associate Professor and Chair of Civic Communication & Media at Willamette University, where she teaches Death and Grief Communication, Autoethnography, and Artful Communication for Wellbeing courses.  Brooks serves the bereaved as co-founder of the Diversity of Loss Arts-Based Grief Support Group at Willamette and as a facilitator at The Dougy […]

Christina Zampitella

Christina Zampitella, PsyD, FT, is a licensed clinical psychologist, Fellow of Thanatology, and the founder of The Center for Grief and Trauma Therapy.  She frequently serves as an adjunct professor and internationally recognized professional speaker, and has a particular passion for training emerging mental health professionals.  She hosts her podcast, Phoenix Rising with Dr. Z., where […]

Jakob van Wielink

is a grief counselor and executive coach.  He is founder and co-owner of The School for Transition, a training institute based in The Netherlands focusing on attachment, bonding, loss, grief and meaning reconstruction in the face of professional and life transitions. Jakob is a published author in the field of change and loss in leadership […]

Sarah Vollmann

Sarah Vollmann, DSW, MPS, ATR-BC, LICSW, is a registered, board-certified art therapist, licensed clinical social worker, and researcher. She is a faculty member of the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, and the Associate Director of the Young Widowhood Project. She maintains a private practice specializing in grief and traumatic loss, and is the Lead […]

Doris Vaughans

is a licensed professional counselor in Alabama and Georgia and a Clinical Assistant Professor in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, The University of Alabama, where she also maintains an active clinical practice.  She has more than 30 years of experience working with patients and clients in oncology, end of life, hospice, and palliative care settings.  Vaughans […]

Barbara Thompson

Barbara E. Thompson, OTD, LCSW, is a Professor of Occupational Therapy, Russell Sage College in Troy, NY, where she also maintains an active psychotherapy practice.  She founded the Hospice Day Program and ALS Regional Center at St. Peter’s Hospice in Albany, NY and has published  articles, book chapters and two books on use of contemplative […]

Edith Steffen

is a BPS-Chartered and HCPC-Registered Counselling Psychologist in private practice and a Lecturer on the Counselling Psychology doctorate programme at the University of Roehampton, London, UK. Edith has been involved in a pilot project researching the Meaning in Loss Group protocol for complicated grief and has a special interest in continuing bonds with the deceased, […]

Donna Schuurman, PhD

is the Sr. Director of Advocacy & Training at the Dougy Center for Grieving Children & Families in Portland, Oregon, where she has served in various roles since 1986, including 25 years as Executive Director.  She writes and trains internationally on bereavement issues, and has authored numerous articles, book chapters, and the book, Never the Same: […]

Lies Scaut

a Belgian social worker, marital and family therapist, and hypnotherapist with extensive training in complex trauma, grief, and themes of separation.  She has developed a series of creative, arts-based techniques for grief counseling with children, families, teachers, and helping professionals.  Lies has more than a decade of experience in crisis and disaster response in schools […]

Edward K. Rynearson

is a clinical psychiatrist and researcher from Seattle, Washington where he founded the section of psychiatry at the Mason Clinic.  In addition to full-time clinical practice, he has served on the clinical faculty of the University of Washington as a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry.  He maintains a particular focus on the effects of violent death […]