Carla Archuletta is a licensed professional counselor, Tennessee Approved Supervisor, National Certified Counselor, Fellow in Thanatology, educator, and end-of-life doula whose work focuses on grief and bereavement, serious illness, caregiving, dementia, medical trauma, and end-of-life care.
Carla is an instructor with the University of Vermont’s End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate and Grief & Bereavement Specialist Certificate programs and an Affiliate of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at UVM. She also developed and teaches UVM’s End-of-Life Dementia Care Professional Certificate, which integrates dementia-informed care, caregiver support, grief and loss, communication, and ethical considerations. Her professional background includes hospice grief counseling, oncology-related counseling, trauma-informed care, end-of-life doula work, biomedical research, and hospice and hospital volunteering. She is a Certified Dementia Practitioner, EMDRIA Certified Therapist and Approved Consultant, and serves as an EMDR Basic Training Facilitator and educator with ConnectEMDR Training & Consulting.
Carla is co-author of “Health-Medical Challenges and Grief: Group EMDR Therapy for Patients and Caregivers,” published in EMDR Group Therapy: Emerging Principles and Protocols to Treat Trauma and Beyond (Springer, 2023).
