Grief Is Learning
Grief Is Learning
A Conversation About Traumatic Grief, Loss, and Bereavement
Presented by: Amy O'Neill-Gregorian, DHSc, LPC
Tuesday, November 18th - 12:00pm EST
Grief Is Learning offers families of loss and those who support them trauma-informed perspectives on common reactions to traumatic grief, insights into the impact of trauma on grief, and how learning about yourself and the process can help promote healing.
In the wake of traumatic loss, grief involves finding new ways to hold connection, make meaning, and transform. This webinar reframes traumatic bereavement as an adaptive, lifelong process of learning to live with loss while maintaining continuing bonds with the one who died.
About the Presenter
Amy O'Neill-Gregorian, DHSc, LPC
Clinician, Private Practice; Adjunct Instructor, Chestnut Hill College
Adjunct Lecturer, Institute for Disaster Mental Health at SUNY New Paltz
Amy O’Neill-Gregorian, DHSc, MS, LPC, is a clinician, consultant, and educator with more than 30 years of experience in mental health at the local, national, and international levels. A survivor of the Boston Marathon Bombing, she combines lived and professional expertise in ways that resonate deeply with victims and survivors of terrorism and mass violence.
Dr. O’Neill has developed learning communities, peer-reviewed materials, presented at national and international conferences, and provided trauma-informed care and consultation following incidents of mass violence. She is a consultant for the NMVC, the OVC VOCA Center, and OVC TTAC, responding to MVIs and supporting long-term recovery and consultation in many communities, including New Orleans, Virginia Beach, Gilroy, Nashville, Perry (IA), Allen (TX), Columbine, and Vienna, Austria. She has served on numerous advisory groups and response teams dedicated to disaster mental health, peer support, and survivor services, including the Vibrant Emotional Health Crisis Emotional Care Team, the Disaster Distress Helpline Steering Committee, the American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Team, and S.T.O.P.
Internationally, Dr. O’Neill is a member of the European Union Hub of Experts on Victims of Terrorism and has contributed to United Nations initiatives on victims’ rights, justice, and memorialization, presenting at the First Global Congress for Victims of Terrorism at UN Headquarters, providing testimony for the development of the model legislative provisions, and providing expert consultation for the development and launch of VOTAN (Victims of Terrorism Associations Network).
She maintains a private counseling practice, is an adjunct instructor in the graduate counseling psychology program at Chestnut Hill College, and is an adjunct lecturer for the Institute for Disaster Mental Health at SUNY New Paltz. Dr. O’Neill earned her doctorate in health sciences with a focus on mental health, where her dissertation explored social support in communities impacted by hate-motivated mass shootings; the findings are being prepared to be presented for publication.