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Resources for Grief Counseling

The following list of support persons is taken from the Grief Resource Book created by the Grief Support Workgroup, a subcommittee of Madison’s Committee on Children and Youth.
Those listed below are resources to do short and longer term grief support work.

Suellen Aptman, LCSW
203-453-0210 Ext 1

Michael Barrios, Ph.D
 453-3456 Ext 3

Taffy Bowes, MA, MAR, LPC
Madison Youth and Family Services
(W) 245-5657

Coastal Counseling Associates, LLC
149 Durham Rd Suite 31
Madison
245-1956

Scott Cochran, LCSW
Madison Youth and Family Services
245-5688

Rev. Msgr. John P. Conte St. Margaret Church
245-9067

Linda Conti, Ph.D
245-0064

Erin Corbett, MSW
Madison Youth and Family Services
203-5645

Arthur H. Criddle, M. Div.
245-0663

Mary Beth Golja, LMFT
245-3317

Thomas R. Grant, LCSW     
245-0064

Melissa Hartmann LCSW Cell 676-4731

Rev J.F. Keough
St. Margaret Church
245-7301

Abby L. Lipshutz, Psy.D
203-779-5490



Renee A. McIntyre, LCSW
245-0289



David Melillo, MS, LPC
Madison Youth and Family Services
245-5649

John Murphy, LCSW
318-8256

Norcott Pemberton, LCSW
245-2029

Lisa Silberstein, Ph.D
 (W) 453-3456 Ext 4

Rev. Linda Smith-Criddle PhD
For a limited # of Sessions
245-0663

Sara Snyder, MSW
(W) 860-767-2266

Rev. Jeffrey White
421-4887

 

 

Reading Resources

Bibliography

The Dougy Center.  Helping Children Cope with Death.  Portland OR:  The Dougy Center for Grieving Children, 1999.  www.dougy.org   

 

Emswiler, Mary Ann and James P.  Guiding Your Child Through Grief. New York: Bantam Books, 2000.

 

Fitzgerald, Helen. The Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends

   New York: Simon & Schuster Fireside, 2000.

 

Rathkey, Julia Wilcox.  What Children Need When They Grieve.  New York:  Three Rivers Press, 2004.

 

Schweibert, Pat and Chuck DeKlyen.  Tear Soup.  Portland, Oregon:  Dynagraphics 2005

     (information about this book is available at Grief Watch, www.griefwatch.com/ www.tearsoup.com)