How to Grieve What We''ve Lost: Evidence-Based Skills to Process Grief and Reconnect with What Matters

About Alexandra KennedyMary Beth WilliamsPhDRuss HarrisSameet M KumarSoili Poijula

Russ Harris is an internationally acclaimed acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer; and author of the best-selling ACT-based self-help book The Happiness Trap which has sold more than one million copies and been published in thirty languages. He is widely renowned for his ability to teach ACT in a way that is simple clear and funyet extremely practical.Alexandra Kennedy MA LMFT is a psychotherapist in private practice thirty-nine years and author of Losing a Parent; The Infinite Thread: Healing Relationships Beyond Loss; and How Did I Miss All This Before? Waking Up to the Magic of Our Ordinary Lives. She is an adjunct faculty member of John F. Kennedy University and has taught at the University of California Santa Cruz Extension and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She has been interviewed in USA Today the San Jose Mercury News the San Francisco Examiner and the Boston Herald as well as on NPR's Talk of the Nation CNN's Sonja Live and on KQED's Family Talk and New Dimensions Radio. Sameet M. Kumar Ph.D. is a psychologist at the Memorial Healthcare System Cancer Institute in south Broward Florida with over a decade of experience in working with end-of-life and bereavement. He is also the author of the best-selling Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss as well as The Mindful Path Through Worry and Rumination.Mary Beth Williams PhD LCSW CTS is an author researcher lecturer and trainer in the area of trauma. In addition she treats trauma survivors in private practice at the Trauma Recovery Education and Counseling Center in Warrenton VA. Williams is former president of the Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists. She is a trainer for US Customs and Border Protection cofounder of the proposed 501(c)(3) US Vet Source and author of many articles chapters and books about trauma disorders.Soili Poijula PhD is a clinical psychologist licensed psychotherapist and director at Oy Synolon Ltd. a center for trauma psychology in Finland where she has done pioneering work as a developer of post-trauma psychotherapy.