Arizona
Martha ("Marty") Tousley, CNS-BC, FT
Bereavement Counselor
Hospice of the Valley
1510 East Flower Street
Phoenix, AZ 85014
602-530-6970
E-mail:Tousleym@aol.com
Web site: http://www.griefhealing.com
On-line Pet Loss Forum: http://www.hovforum.ipbhost.com
- Certified as a Fellow in Thanatology:Death, Dying and Bereavement, Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC)
- Certified Bereavement Facilitator, American Academy of Bereavement (AAB)
- Certified Clinical Specialist in Adult Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Certification (ANCC)
- Consultant,Hospice of the Valley Pet Loss Support Group, Phoenix AZ and Halton-Peel Pet Loss Support Group, Ontario, Canada
- Author: Finding Your Way through Grief: A Guide for the First Year (book); The Final Farewell: Preparing for and Mourning the Loss of Your Pet (book); Children and Pet Loss: A Guide for Helping (booklet); The First Year of Grief: Help for the Journey (on-line e-mail course); A Different Grief: Coping with Pet Loss (on-line e-mail course); Coping with Pet Loss, with Guidelines for Helping Children (on-line e-mail course); Explaining the Funeral / Memorial Service to Your Children (booklet); Helping Another in Grief (booklet)
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Peter Christman
Tucson, Arizona
520-271-3233
Contact: Peter Christman
email: christmanpeter@yahoo.com
Support Group: Meets the First Wednesday of each month, services
free. Support, education, and visual imagery exercise offered
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California
Andrea Keith, M.A., C.E.A.P., C.A.M.F
CGI Counseling Center
4199 Campus Drive, Suite #E
University Tower Building
Irvine, CA 92612
914-650-2442
E:Mail: akeith@cruznet.net
PET LOSS BEREAVEMENT COUNSELING, SUPPORT GROUPS, and WORKSHOPS
Finding the right emotional support while grieving the loss of your pet is important. Our need to connect and our desire for relationships are very real. It's how we're wired. We form relationships with our family, friends, and others. We also create significant and very deep emotional attachments with our pet companions. We care for our companion and in turn, our best friend provides us with non-judgmental affection and unconditional love. Research on attachment validates what pet lovers already know; that the bond we share with our pet can be even stronger than the bond we share with people. When this special bond with our pet is disrupted, we can feel emotionally devastated. After all, our pet was the one certainty we could always count on in our unpredictable, fast-paced life.
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Maine
Kate Dulac, MS, LCPC, NCC
P.O. Box 6867
Scarborough, ME 04070
207-885-8898
email: kdulac1@yahoo.com
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
National Certified Counselor
Member of the American Counseling Association, and the Association
for Pet Loss and Bereavement
I strongly believe in the spiritual and emotional
bonds between humans and animals. My approach to pet bereavement
counseling focuses on understanding the process of grief and resolving
the emotions associated with loss. This leads to feeling better,
so you can cherish your memories and move forward. Individual sessions
available in person and over the phone.
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Maryland
Robyn Zeiger, PhD.
10300 Sweetbriar Parkway
Silver Spring, MD
20903
Phone: (301) 445-7333
Email: petlossdoc@aol.com
I have been a counselor in private practice for
over 20 years in the DC/Maryland area, and teach at the University
of Maryland in both the Department of Family Studies and the University
Honors Program. I enjoy working with clients who are dealing with
pet-related issues, especially doing pet loss and bereavement work.
I see pets as an integral part of our therapeutic journey and certainly
an important part of our healing from childhood wounds. My work
in pet loss is generally crisis intervention as well as short term.
I do therapy with individuals, couples and groups, and intend to
do workshops in the near future. The pet loss support group is “on
hiatus” at this time but may be reached at PetLossSupportDCMetro@yahoogroups.com
for support. (as of 1/04)
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Pamela Spear, MS, OTR/L, GC-C
Certified Grief Counselor
Not Just A Pet
Pet Loss & Bereavement Support Services, LLC
2110 Priest Bridge Drive, Suite 3
Crofton, MD 21114
410-487-3731
Email: PSpear@NotJusrAPet.org
Website: www.NotJustAPet.org
My practice provides pet loss and bereavement support services in the Baltimore, DC and Annapolis area.
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Minnesota
Kristelle Miller PHD
Professor in The Dep't of Psychology at
320 Bohannon Hall
10 University Drive
University of Minn. at Duluth
Duluth, MN. 55802
www.d.umn.edu/psychology
Facilitates the 'Animal Allies' Support Group
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Missouri
Diane
Newman, MS, LPC
TLC Counseling Services
1611 Mills Road
Ozark, MO 65721
- Ordained
as a Chaplin of Pets, through The Chaplin of Pets Ministry.
- Healing
Hearts Counseling Services
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Work Number
- Home:
417-725-2908
- E-Mail: dianenewman@missouristate.edu
Licensed Professional
Counselor, Specializing in Pet Grief Counseling. My services
are free.My
main therapeutic technique is Person Centered Therapy--allowing
the person or group to freely and unconditionally express their
feelings and emotions. I talk about grief as a process, explaining
the different
stages of the process that the individual might go through.
I also provide materials on the grieving process, poems, books
on pet loss,
and information on pet memorialization.
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New Jersey
Julie Corbin, Ph.D.
1 Anderson Hill Road Suite 102
Bernardsville, NJ 07924
Tel: 973-360-9339
Fax: 973-270-2438
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and Ph.D.
Candidate in Clinical Psychology with over 13 years experience specializing
in the areas of grief and bereavement and issues of transition and
loss. I am the founding director of the Pet Loss Support Services
of Morris County, which offers a wide range of individual and group
counseling services to bereaved pet owners. This service grew out
of the personal experience of losing my beloved Golden Retriever
to cancer, and the lack of emotional support available. My practice
embodies the need to honor each person's grief as a unique and highly
individual process. It also validates the emotional pain that one
experiences in the face of losing not only a pet, but a member of
the family. I provide a safe and supportive environment to assist
the bereaved, in coming to a place of understanding and reconciliation
of the loss — a sometimes difficult but necessary journey
towards healing.
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JoAnn Jarolmen
352 Corona Place
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Phone: (201) 445-3321
e-mail: jjarolmen@aol.com
I have been a pet loss counselor for about 15 years. I'm a certified
grief counselor and a licensed clinical social worker. I earned
my Ph.D. from Rutgers University and I've written a research article
on pet loss and bereavement based on my dissertation. I have my
own pets including several rescued cats and at present one dog.
I have had the experience of pet loss as recently as January 20th
and know the feelings first-hand. I'm sensitive and have empathy
for such losses. I do individual, family and group counseling (group
only if I have several people grieving at the same time).
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New York
Medea Dawn Berkman MS
P.O. Box 317,
Massapequa, New York, 11758
PH- 516-785-6416
E-Mail- pawtoheart@usa.net Website- www.pawtoheart.org
Certified Mental health/HIV Counselor. Supportive Care Counselor-Paw To Heart Animal Bereavement Support
Services.
Marian A. McClellan, MSW, LCSW-R
Kingston, NY 12401
(845) 679-4877
E-mail: mariancsw@prodigy.net
I am a NYS Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 25 years experience and
Earned my degree from Columbia University School of Social Work. Having
Personally experienced the pain of pet loss and journey to healing, I
Specialize in and am dedicated to helping individuals and families work
Through the process of grief and bereavement after having loved and lost (or
Are anticipating the loss of) their beloved animal family member(s). I
Offer office visits, specialized home visits may be arranged.
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Washington
Letitia H. Gray, MA, LMHC
406 Main Street #101-B
Edmonds, WA 98020
Phone: (425) 745-2750
In my private practice, I work with individuals who are faced
with loss and life transitions. I have a Master's Degree in Counseling
Psychology and I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the State
of Washington. I also have training in the effects and treatment
of trauma, depression and anxiety, A.D.D./A.D.H.D., and bereavement.
As a therapist, I understand the complexity of the grief process.
As an animal lover, I understand the pain of losing a beloved animal.
With this background and experience, I have been providing pet
bereavement workshops and individual therapy to clients for the
loss of companion animals. I offer my professional training and
personal experience to clients to use as they need on their own
grief journey.
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West Virginia
Melody L. Hunter, AS, BS, MA
8 Lovell Drive
Charleston, West Virginia, 25302
(304) 345-8625
Email: Darshawn16@aol.com
Certified by the Argus Center in "The Bond-Centered Approach
to Pet Loss Support"
Member of the ACA
My support group: Paws from Heaven |
