GRIEF CERTIFIED PEER-TO-PEER
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Certified Grief Support Specialist + Educator, group facilitator + writer
Grief Support Specialist, Hope in Grief
Work Winston-Salem/Davidson NC 27106 United Stateswork
Work Phone: (980) 689-0136work
Work Email: hopeafterws@gmail.comINTERNET
Website: Grief Support Specialist
Professional Certifications and Licenses
Certified Grief Support Specialist – 2023, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Continuing Studies
Certified Grief Educator – 2021, Grief Educator Certificate Program, Grief Expert, David Kessler, ID# 105970
Psychological Autopsy trained – 2021, American Association of Suicidology
Healing Conversations trained volunteer – 2020, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Support group peer facilitator training – 2019, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Certified QPR Gatekeeper Trainer – 2013, QPR Institute, Question Persuade Refer suicide prevention training
Services Offered
Grief Support Specialist, offering one on one/individual support to those grieving any kind of loss
Specialize in witnessing grief of those who lost a loved one to suicide
Volunteer Moderator for David Kessler’s Tender Hearts Specific Loss Groups
Support group facilitator for local, regional and national organizations
Freelance writer with special emphasis on grief, resiliency, and suicide
Suicide prevention trainer
Services Offered
Peer to peer for loss of a child 27 plus, or loss by suicide, loss of a sibling, or adult child estrangement.
Professional Certifications and Licenses
Services Offered
Online Group Support and Education
Online Individual Support and Education
Work 4646 Harper House Road 4646 Harper House Road Four Oaks NC 27524 United Stateswork
Work Phone: 9192077866work
Work Email: ann.rose275@gmail.comINTERNET
Professional Certifications and Licenses
Services Offered
I am a bereaved Mom of two sons. I bring a unique perspective on how we grieve our only child/all our children. I have had multiple losses during my life. I have lost parents, grandparents, siblings and my children.
1. Child Loss
2. Only child loss/all your children
3. Loss to Addiction
4. Suicide
I am prepared to speak publicly on grief and loss providing the highest level of grief support through education, experience and insights that are often difficult to navigate. I am available for panel discussions, group meetings to include training seminars for business, hospitals, funeral homes and human service organizations. I am available in person or virtual. I am also available for one on one Zoom support or peer to peer.
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Professional Certifications and Licenses
Professional:
Relevant training, certificates, and roles include Certified Grief Educator; Grief Movement Guide with Paul Denniston; Secular Chaplain endorsed by The Humanist Society of American Humanist Association; trained end-of-life doula by International End-of-Life Doula Association; trained patient advocate with National Patient Advocacy Foundation; Certified Specialist with Association of Animal-Assisted Intervention Professionals; Multidisciplinary Certificate in Pediatric Palliative Care through Shiley Haynes Institute of Palliative Care at Cal State Univ; training through Views On Interdisciplinary Childhood Ethics program at McGill Univ.; and multiple trauma-informed mindfulness certificates for children and adults.
Academic Experience: Currently a PhD researcher through Univ of Glasgow, with support through McGill Univ, studying critically ill adolescents’ perspectives, voice, and empowerment in pediatric palliative care.
M.Ed., University of Missouri, positive psychology (2018)
B.A., Mount Holyoke College, psychology (2006)
Services Offered
Andrea provides support, comfort, compassionate education, and positive experiences to families, children, and adults navigating grief, loss, significant change, dying, and trauma. Individual conversations can take place online/phone/Zoom, at off-site locations, or at Halcyon Healing Center, Andrea’s farm in central NC. In the non-winter months, group outings, bonfires, celebrations of life, and memorial services are also hosted at Halcyon. The animals, nature walking trails, and farm immersion provide a copacetic setting for all participants.
Chapter Leader of The Compassionate Friends of Mooresville
The Compassionate Friends
Work Mooresville NC 28117 United StatesworkWork United Stateswork
Work Phone: 704-313-8281work
Work Email: thecompassionatefriensofmooresville@gmail.comINTERNET
Professional Certifications and Licenses
We are a peer-to-peer support group comprised of bereaved parents. Our children have died at all ages and from all causes.
I have completed the Grief Educator Certificate Training from David Kessler.
Services Offered
The Compassionate Friends of Mooresville is a peer-to-peer support group for bereaved parents, grandparents and siblings. We hold in-person and Zoom meetings the third Thursday of each month. There is also an informal dinner meeting on the 1st Thursday of each month.
Certified Grief Educator, Certified Grief Movement Guide, NEDA Proficient End Of Life/Death Doula, Certified Laughter Yoga Leader, Ordained Secular Celebrant, Home Funeral Guide, Death Educator, Hillsborough Death Cafe founder and facilitator
Work Hillsborough NC 27278 United Stateswork
Work Email: Neidra@BalanceForLifeAndDeath.comINTERNET
Professional Certifications and Licenses
Certified Grief Educator (D. Kessler, Summer 2022)
Certified Grief Movement Guide (P. Dennison, Spring 2023)
NEDA Proficient End of Life Doula (INELDA, Summer 2018)
Home Funeral Guide (Merilynne Rush, 2020)
Certified Laughter Yoga Leader (Debbie Ellison, Laughter Yoga University, 2015)
Services Offered
Balance For Life And Death offers Grief Education Presentations and Workshops, Conscious Grief Retreats, Grief Movement Classes, Grief Peer Mentoring (one on one; virtual and in person), Grief Support Groups (in person), End of Life/Death Doula holistic support (such as life interviews, legacy projects, vigil organization, and more), Home Funeral Guidance, Death Education, Laughter Yoga Classes, Presentations and Workshops (related to end of life, death and dying, grief, legacy projects), information on earth friendly means of burial and body disposition (i.e. aquamation), and funeral and wedding services officiated by an Ordained Secular Celebrant.
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