Expert Category: Course presenter

Sonya Lott has been a licensed psychologist for more than three decades. She maintains a multistate online private practice, specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD). She is a frequent presenter on PGD at professional conferences, and often shares information about acute and prolonged grief and the impact of the pandemic…

Pamela Malone maintains a private clinical practice in which she provides individual, couples, and family therapy. Her clinical experience spans 40 years in a variety of settings. She is a clinical supervisor for master’s level clinicians and provides supervisor training to LCSWs and LMFTs. Malone’s research, presentations, and publications focus on loss and grief, adolescence,…

Maria Georgopoulos is a licensed mental health counselor and Fellow in Thanatology, whose work focuses on grief, loss, and trauma. She is founder of Roula’s Kids: A Space for Grieving Families, Inc., which provides free grief groups in New York for children and their families that have experienced the death of someone significant in their…

Jennifer McKenna has been with the Gift of Life Donor Program since 2012. She worked as a Team Leader for the Transplant Information Center for nine years and is currently a Clinical Night Supervisor. She works with donor families and oversees clinical activity for both organ and tissue donation, from referral to recovery. Throughout her…

Kenneth Doka is Senior Vice President of Grief Programs at Hospice Foundation of America (HFA) and the recipient of the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Death Education and Counseling (ADEC). He is professor emeritus, the Graduate School of The College of New Rochelle. A prolific author and editor, Doka serves as editor of HFA’s Living…

Matt Metevelis has served as a Chaplain at Nathan Adelson Hospice in Las Vegas for 15 years.  Metevelis studied at the Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota to train for ordination in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. During his preparation for ordination, Matt completed Clinical Pastoral Education in the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio…

Patti Anewalt is founder and previous director of the Pathways Center for Grief & Loss with Hospice & Community Care. The focus of her clinical practice, writing and teaching is on issues related to end of life, grief, compassion fatigue and crisis response, presenting at the national, state and local level. Anewalt is a Fellow…

Author of The New York Times bestseller Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End, Alua Arthur is the most visible death doula in America today. She is a recovering attorney and the founder of Going with Grace, a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization. Her TED Talk titled,…

Jacquelyn Benson is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Palliative Medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Benson is a family gerontologist whose program of research has a translation focus aimed at enhancing the psychological and social lives of older adults and their caregiving families. Much of…

Joy Berger is Editor in Chief for Hospice & Palliative Care Today, a national newsletter for executive leaders. Additionally, she is the Founder/Owner of Composing Life Out of Loss, equipping hospices with caregiver/family video libraries for their needs through the continuum of care.  Berger’s 30 years of hospice service span providing direct patient care; leading…

Susan Bluck is Director of the Life Story Lab and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. Bluck is a lifespan developmental psychologist with an emphasis on adult development, aging, and the end of life. Her research examines the ways that individuals use memories of life’s experiences (i.e., autobiographical remembering, life stories) to serve…

Jillian Blueford is a Clinical Associate Professor for the school counseling program at the University of Denver, a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Colorado, and is certified and a Fellow in Thanatology (Death, Dying, and Bereavement). Over the years, she has provided grief counseling to individuals of all backgrounds in various settings, including…