Laurie Burke is a licensed clinical psychologist who maintains an active private practice in Portland, OR that is dedicated to serving grieving individuals, with a primary focus on assisting traumatically bereaved adults (e.g., individuals grieving losses from homicide, suicide, or fatal accident). She received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Memphis where she continues to conduct bereavement research. Her research and publications bear on death, dying, loss, and grief processes, with an emphasis on violent death bereavement, complicated grief, and complicated spiritual grief (CSG), which refers to a spiritual crisis following loss reflected in the griever’s struggle with God and/or his or her spiritual community. Burke, who is one of the leading experts in the study of CSG, led the development and validation of the Inventory of Complicated Spiritual Grief (ICSG), and its revised version, the ICSG 2.0.
