Janet Axler

19610 Van Aken Blvd #3x, Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122, Phone # 216 509 9933 Fax 216 921 9442 email jjaaxler@ameritech.net.

Janet Axler, MA, LSW,LPCC,CT. is licensed and certified to counsel and teach individuals, couples and groups searching for answers to life problems.
With twenty years of experience I have come to believe that most stress comes from LOSS...loss of a loved one, loss of youth, loss of a marriage, loss of a job, loss of identity, loss of direction, etc. No two people experience the same loss or cope with it in the same way. Therapy has to be custom made to fit each person. My basic assumption is that all people have the potential to heal and grow. Our minds and our bodies are intimately connected. One can't be sick and the other healthy. I am passionate about educating by example and the use of learning tools how to get in touch with their unique gifts...their power...to lead a healthy and rewarding life. Degriefing is a custom made therapy.

Jane Clark

Cancer Exercise Specialist, San Francisco Bay Area, jane.clark@sbcglobal.net, 415-722-5314

I'm a certified personal trainer (ACSM, NASM, ACE) Degriefing level II training graduate, and specialize in the field of cancer & exercise. I've been in the fitness industry about 14 years. I believe movement is essential, and have a personal commitment to making it fun!

Jenny L. Johnson

IMPACT Coordinator / Personal Fitness Trainer, Bay Club Marin, B.S. Exercise Science, Certified ACSM, ACE, and Degriefing Practitioner Level II

My goal is to guide you through an exercise program that will help you work with and transform your grief.

I will meet you where you are at in terms of your grief and exercise level, and create a program to assist you and support your healing using your grief as fuel for your personal transformation.
ACSM - American College of Sports Medicine and
ACE - American Council on Exercise.

Libby Palomeque

Libby Palomeque, CFP, CDFA, CGRS is a financial advisor who specializes in working with the newly bereaved and the newly divorced. She is a Certified Financial Planner, a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst, a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist and a Level II Degriefing Practitioner. She has worked in the industry for over thirteen years.

Libby's personal journeys in grief have shaped her life. By surviving and overcoming these experiences, Libby has come to the belief that grief can be the single most transformative experience in the human emotional lexicon. Libby is hard at work on her first book: "You're in Charge Now: A guide to taking control of your financial life in a time of loss."

Born in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, and raised in Southern Louisiana, Libby now lives in Alameda, California with her husband, daughter, and a variety of animals. In her free time, Libby practices yoga, writes short stories, hikes and gardens. Libby is a black belt in Kuk Sool Won, an accomplished scuba diver and an amateur naturalist. She is conversationally fluent in four languages.
lpalomeque@trainerwortham.com.

Level 1 Graduates

Mark C. Bigley

M.Div., M.A., MSW, CHTP, Degriefing Level 1. Phone: 419-215-9633; email: bigleymc@yahoo.com; Address: Mercy Center for Integrative Medicine, 3930 Sunforest Court, Toledo, OH 43623

Professional services offered: Clinical Counseling, Grief Counseling using the Degriefing model, Healing Touch, Vibrational Energy Work using Tuning Forks, Spiritual Direction, Yoga for grief, psychological and spiritual distress, Aromatherapy. (In process of becoming a NAHA certified Aromatherapist.)

I am working at Rescue Mental Health as a counselor, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church as Priest-in-Charge, at Mercy Center for Integrative Medicine and just starting up a new hospice Erie West across the state line in Lambertville, Michigan as head of the social services: Social Work, Chaplain and Bereavement.

Susan Bradford

LVN, Doula,CCE, Childbirth Ritualist, 415-453-0251 (San Rafael, Marin Co.,Ca.)
birthpagan@earthlink.net

Susan has worked in the childbirth field for over 30 years supporting mothers and their families from pregnancy through labor and onto babycare in a holistic (a body-mind-emotion and spirit ) approach. She has completed Level One of the Degriefing Certification Training.

Toni Lynn Cormier

MA, Provides Spiritual and Grief Counseling.

Sacred Journey

Serving Marin and Alameda Counties. VM (510) 273-9448, Email toni790@sbcglobal.net

Kym Ferrari

Ordained Minister, Owner of Ferrari of Marin; Systemic Enzyme Consultations 415 883-6925, Novato, Ca.

Grieving the loss of your physical health or ailing body? In chronic pain? I've been there, I offer support, mind & body techniques & tools to help you re-balance your life and reduce or manage your pain. Restoring Smiles 1 Life at a Time!

Deb Gitlin

Level I Degriefing Practitioner

San Jose California
Debgit@aol.com
1-408-226-0937

Deb believes in children and their innate power to love, to inspire, and to heal. She has worked for 24 years as a teacher and tutor. Deb listens to children as they talk about their losses...from teeth, to pets, to loving family and friends as a result of divorce or death. As a a group facilitator at Kara in Palo Alto, she supports children who have experienced the death of a parent. Deb respects and appreciates the individual beauty of each child and uses art, play, music, and sand to "meet them where they are." With the use of these friendly tools, Deb accompanies children as they create their own unique healing process...restoring and replenishing... happy and healthy... bodies and minds.

Deb has a BA in Psychology; Early Childhood Education Certification; California Teaching Credential; National Certification in Degriefing Level I; Death and Grief Studies Certification Program with Alan Wolfelt - Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Grief; UC Berkeley Certificate in Grief and Loss; and University of Integrated Learning Masters program candidate: Children and Grief

Allison Krizner

CMT, Oakland, CA, allisonkrizner@yahoo.com, 310-213-3667

Allison is an Ordained Interfaith Minister, hospital chaplain, spiritual counselor, and certified massage therapist. She integrates a variety of therapeutic, massage and energetic modalities in her Degriefing® Practice. She offers support to a variety of populations, creating space for individuals to connect to their own natural healing energy.

Peg Krome

Email pkrome@earthlink.net
Tel 650-804-0166
Address-Palo Alto, CA

I am a Spiritual Director who guides individuals and groups of all backgrounds as they deepen their connection to what is holy and has meaning for them in their lives. I am also a Grief Counselor working with individuals who have suffered loss.

Lou Leet

BittterSweet Animal Hospice & Grief Recovery, (415) 760-9462, www.bitsweet.org, lou@bitsweet.org

Grief counseling and coaching for those who are losing and who have lost animals through support nights, grief recovery workshops and private counseling. Offering support throughout your animal's dying process (practical care management and emotional grounding), whether natural or euthanasia at some point, as well as your own unique grieving process - sessions are available in person and via telephone/email.

Certifications & Education: Degriefing Certification Degriefing Counselor, San Anselmo, California
Grief Recovery Institute, Certified Grief Specialist, Sherman Oaks, California
Healing Arts, San Rafael, California
Hospice of Petaluma, Trained Volunteer, Petaluma, California
B.S., Earth & Environmental Sciences

Lori Lue-Melero

C.M.T., C.C., Certified Wellness and Life Purpose Coach, 1124 Ballena Blvd. Suite B, Alameda, Ca 94501, (510) 914-3691

Learn to create Balance and Wellness in your life. "Live your life to it's fullest potential!"

June Lynch

M.S. Psychology, Certified Grief Counselor, Oakland, CA, E-Mail: juntim@aol.com, Telephone: 510-835-2026

Ten years counseling experience with adults and couples; grief work as a theme throughout. A spirit filled, holistic approach illuminated by a clear, open and loving heart. Worked for 5 years with Namaste, a Grief Group which grew out of the Shanti Project. Nine years of counseling experience with adults and couples. (this work was not predominantly grief oriented) Presently developing a practice with the over 65 population. Greatest strength has proven to be an ability to connect with clients at a visceral, deeply connected, spirit filled way

Kathy McGinnis

PT, CMT, MSW, HTP, Aromatherapy Certification through ISHA (Institute of Spiritual Healing and Aromatherapy/connected with Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry)

Social Worker for Heartland Homecare, Ohio (www.heartlandhomecare.com); Certified Amrit Yoga Instructor, Yogi Amrit Desai. katmac7200@yahoo.com

Terri Mongait

LMT, NCTMB, Your Well Being Massage Therapy, 909-489-9654, With an emphasis on Degriefing

I am a licensed and national certified massage therapist and offer Degriefing in conjunction with the following modalities:

Swedish Massage
A system of strokes, kneading and friction techniques on specific muscles and connective tissue, combined with active and passive movements of the joints for relaxation or therapy.

Cranio/Sacral Therapy
A non-invasive manipulation of the cranial and sacral bones, incorporating subtle movements and energy work.

Reiki
Reiki is a Japanese form of stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is a healing energy that affects us on all levels ~ body, mind & spirit ~ working to make us whole and complete.

Vicki Panagotacos

Cell: 650.238.4117
vickipanago@sbcglobal.net
Nationally Certified Thanatologist, Educator and Counselor (ADEC)

Vicki is a Nationally Certified Thanatologist, Educator and Counselor (ADEC). She has a masters degree in psychology; a graduate level Certificate in Wellness and BodyMind Counseling; a year of graduate level work in Holistic Health Studies; Level I and II National Certification in Degriefing; a UC/Berkeley Certificate in Grief and Loss; internship and pre-requisite training for ADEC national certification; hospice training; professional training in energy medicine with Carolyn Myss, Ph.D. and Norman Shealy, M.D., and ongoing training with Robert MacDonald, D. Div., in the Telos Method of NLP and with Eric Greenleaf, Ph.D, (President of the Northern California Ericksonian Foundation) in hypnosis. In addition, she is a 2008 candidate for graduate level Transformational Coaching Professional Certification at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.

Practice: Practice Emphasis: Cognitive behavioral/goal-oriented counseling and coaching, with emphasis on building strong bodymind well-being to accept and minimize the effects of loss and grief. She specializes in parent/partner loss, divorce, infertility, adoption, chronic health problems, and aging. Vicki has a private practice in the Los Gatos and also facilitates grief support groups/teaches second year resilience classes at the Hospice of the Valley.

Personal Relationship with Grief: Vicki's mission is to educate, as well as provide support and resources, for groups and individuals, schools, and the medical community to insure that the scope and meaning of loss over one's lifetime is better understood and not ignored.

Rebecca Plum

Perinatal Educator, Postpartum Doula, & Apprentice Midwife, San Francisco, California, Http://www.RebeccaPlum.com, RebeccaPlum@gmail.com, (415) 250-6845

I offer in home care to families in the postpartum period, including newborn care guidance, emotional support, lactation assistance, and much more. I am also in apprenticeship to become a homebirth midwife, which will allow me to offer care to those who choose to birth at home, as well as to women who wish to experience compassionate, empowering, individually paced well-woman care (also known as the yearly obgyn exam).

Norma K. Pomerance

MFT, Certified Loss and Grief Counselor
1214 Lincoln Ave. San Rafael, CA 94901
(414) 456-6880

Specializing in the trauma of multiple losses such as infertility, illness, death, the empty nest/failing parent, and retirement. Strategic help for maintaining the self while suffering multiple losses.

Carolyn Tague

Senior Massage Coordinator, Institute for Health & Healing, California Pacific Medical Center, http://myhealthandhealing.org

Carolyn Tague is a CMT in San Francisco who specializes in clinical massage, massage for people living with serious illnesses, and for those interested in integrative techniques for healing the whole person. Carolyn offers Degriefing bodywork, Integrative Massage, and personalized "retreats" for individuals and small groups. Contact: 415-994-3666 or mailto:carolyn@ctague.com