I'm a licensed Clinical Psychologist, certified as a Health Service Provider in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. After receiving a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Denver, I completed my residency training in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center. I'm listed in the National Register of Health Service Psychologists and earned the CPQ (Certificate of Professional Qualification in Psychology), granted by the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards. I received my training as a death doula through the International End-of-Life Doula Association (INELDA) and am a proud member of INELDA, NEDA (National End-of-Life Doula Alliance), and ADEC (Association for Death Education and Counseling).

In my 40+ years of practice as a health psychologist specializing in anxiety disorders and chronic, life-limiting, and terminal illnesses, I’ve discovered that fear of death lies at the core of much psychological and spiritual suffering. Though I've long been in the trenches of clinical work, my passion for changing our fraught relationship with mortality inspired my evolution as an end-of-life educator, public speaker, and facilitator of frank, squirmy conversations about death and dying. An ardent evangelist of the death-positive movement, I've written a psycho-educational self-help book on overcoming death anxiety - Death Without Fear: Collective Wisdom for Making Peace with Mortality - and founded The Examined Death™. I’m so pleased that you’ve found your way here!