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June 15, 2025
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I am a grief counselor, writer, consultant, teacher, and public speaker
For much of my forty year long career, I was a social worker. I started out working with children and families in community mental health centers. Then I found my calling as a grief counselor after being hired to develop and direct a community-centered, in-patient pediatric bereavement counseling program.Ā For over thirty years, now, I’ve continued teaching across the country, while working part-time for various hospices, and also maintaining a private grief counseling practice.
Helping professionals and grievers alike, across all fifty states and in Canada, have attended my grief workshops, retreats, and keynote presentations. I also provide consultation to law firms representing bereaved clients grappling with wrongful deaths in their families.Ā
I’m the author of The Journey Through Grief and Loss: Helping Yourself and Your Child When Grief Is Shared, published by St. Martin’s Press, and I’ve written fifteen CareNotes on different aspects of grief, published by Abbey Press. A musician, and lover of poetry, I always weave inspiration, creativity and hope into all that I do.Ā
If you are looking for grief counseling, or seeking a key note speaker or consultant, I would love hearing from you. I look forward to meeting you in person or virtually to explore how I can be of assistance on your journey.
I have the lived and learned experience to help on every step of your journey
There are three specialty areas that define my work-Ā Ā grief trainings, seminars and keynotes; grief consulting; and grief counseling and support.
If you are seeking a grief-related training, I’ve been a seminar leader for over twenty-five years and I love teaching.Ā Ā I’ve led hundreds of day-long and multi-day seminars geared to social workers, psychologists, doctors, chaplains, teachers, and other human service professionals seeking to deepen their knowledge and skills in the area of grief support. And I give keynote presentations for businesses and professional organizations seeking inspiration and hope.
If you are seeking a grief-related consultation, I enjoy consulting to businesses, legal firms, schools, hospices and hospitals. I love to problem-solve with my clients by offering my expertise in the area of grief and grief support so they can make the right decisions for themselves and their clients, patients, and students.
If you are looking for a grief counselor, I work remotely or in-person, at my office in Midway, Georgia, with adults, teens and families. I also enjoy leading bereavement groups and writing workshops. I’ve been a grief counselor for over 40 years working in hospitals, hospices, schools, and in my private practice.Ā
To learn more, please see my individual services.Ā You can also contact me directly.Ā I’d be happy to hear from you.
Education & training for professionals, individual counseling, speaking engagements
For over thirty-five years, I’ve been offering grief seminars, professional keynotes, workshops and retreats in alI fifty states, Canada, and overseas. My particular approach to bereavement education incorporates music, poetry, and storytelling ā some of the things I love the most. I often play my cornet and sing at my seminars. Several thousand professionals as well as bereaved adults have attended my talks, retreats and workshops, including grief counselors, therapists, social workers, clergy, chaplains, psychologists, and physicians.Ā
When Your Client Is Grieving: How to be Compassionate, Confident, and Steady While Stepping Into the Storm of Grief
I’ve worked as a grief consultant for over thirty years and helped small businesses, hospices, hospitals and schools heal when grief has hit them hard.
Serious losses can be life-changing and deeply disorienting. I often work with individuals and families grappling with grief following the death of their loved ones.Ā But loss is a very broad term and not all grief stems from a death. Many of my clients are struggling with non-death losses stemming from serious illnesses,Ā job-loss, the end of a relationship, and a variety of challenges that come with aging.Ā Ā Please don’t hesitate to reach out.Ā
When adults face a significant loss, they must grapple with their own profound grief, and they are often called upon to nurture and support their grieving children. This is the first book to address this very common dual grieving challenge. As a practicing psychotherapist for twenty-nine years, Robert Zucker can offer parents and other concerned readers important insights into managing their own grief while supporting their grieving children.
For the countless parents who have tried blocking out their own grief in order to be available to their child, Robert Zucker provides a measure of comfort. This book will reassure readers that a grieving parent can still be an effective parent.
Read my articles related to grief and trauma
If we look and listen harder and more deeply for subtle and not so subtle
messages, maybe we’ll discover that love really is everlasting.
Let’s try thinking outside the box.Ā I offer you a list of creative strategies for living well during the coming holidays.Ā
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