Expert Category: Living with Grief book author

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…

Robert Neimeyer is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, maintains an active consulting practice, and directs the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, which provides global online training in grief therapy. Neimeyer has published 35 books, including Living Beyond Loss: Questions and Answers about Grief and Bereavement and New Techniques of…

Dr. O’Connor is a Professor at the University of Arizona Department of Psychology, where she directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab. She earned a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona in 2004 and following a faculty appointment at UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, she returned to the University of…

William Feigelman is an emeritus professor of sociology at Nassau Community College, where he taught for 50 years. Since his son’s suicide in 2002, Feigelman has focused his professional writings on suicide and suicide bereavement, with his writings appearing in most all leading bereavement journals. He is a co-author of Devastating Losses: How Parents Cope…

Ryan Pferdehirt is the Vice President of Ethics Services at the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioethics at Kansas City University. He supports healthcare organizations in the development of ethics committees and departments and works to grow competencies of member ethics committees, individual consultants, and the general…

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…

Holly Prigerson is the Endowed Professor of Diagnostics in Radiology, the Professor of Sociology in Radiology and in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Director of the Cornell Center for Research on End-of-Life Care. Her current research interests include targeting psychosocial factors influencing end-of-life care and bereavement adjustment, examining racial/ethnic disparities in the…

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…

Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey is a gerontological health and social work researcher and New York attorney concentrating in health and public health law with deep experience in palliative care and hospice, including in the development of palliative care workforce education and training. Morrissey currently holds the appointments of Associate Professor and Director of the PhD…

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,…

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…