Our Team

Meet the Team 

 
 
 

President / Clinical Consultant

Dr. Abigail Nathanson, LCSW, APHSW-C, ACS

Abby (she/hers) is an experienced trauma therapist with nearly 20 years of experience working in healthcare with people who are seriously ill or dying and with their caregivers, with healthcare professionals and with those in mourning. Her work has been in hospice, palliative care, skilled nursing facilities, major acute care hospitals and community non-profits, both on the front lines and in management and program development roles.

She holds national board certification in Palliative Care and is a Level III AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) provider. Abby has written, taught and researched in areas such as bereavement, caregiving, death anxiety and coping with serious illness. She received both her master’s and doctorate in social work from New York University, where she is still on faculty part-time and teaches Grief, Loss and Bereavement in the MSW program. She is the co-editor of the recently released textbook, The Practice of Clinical Social Work in Healthcare from Springer Press, and consults and trains nationally.

    • Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Care Providers, Memorial Sloan Kettering

    • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Level III Provider, AEDP Institute

    • EMDR Attachment-Based Trauma Certificate, Parts I and II, Parnell Institute

    • Social & Behavioral Research Basic Program Certificate, CITI

    • Advanced Palliative Hospice Social Worker – Certified (APHSW-C)

    • Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), Center for Credentialing and Education

    • Clinical Supervision Certificate, New York University

    • Palliative and End of Life Care Certificate, New York University

 
 
 
 

Specialist / Psychotherapist

Veronica Dyer, LCSW, APHSW-C

Veronica Dyer (she/hers/ella) is a very highly trained trauma therapist with a decade of experience working with people facing illness and loss in the context of hospitals, hospice, palliative care and in private practice. She is nationally board certified in palliative care and has particular expertise working with individuals grappling with uncertainty, mortality, caregiving, adjusting to major losses and navigating the challenges of chronic pain and illness. Veronica uses an integrative approach blending therapies including Existential-Humanistic psychotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Somatic Trauma Therapy, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) and Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy. She is a bilingual English/Spanish speaker from South America and spent 15 years working for the United Nations prior to her career in social work. 

    • Certificate in Foundations of Existential- Humanistic Therapy, Existential Humanistic Institute of San Francisco

    • Certificate in Integrated Somatic Trauma Therapy, The Embody Lab (currently enrolled)

    • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

    • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

      (AEDP), Level 1, AEDP Institute

    • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for anxiety, Beck Institute (PA)

    • Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy, Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia University (NY)

    • Meaning Centered Psychotherapy, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (NY)

    • Empowered Relief Certification for chronic pain, Stanford University (CA)

    • Advanced Clinical Practice Certificate, New York University (NY)

    • Bioethics Certification, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Benjamin Cardozo School of Law (NY)

 
 
 

Specialist / Psychotherapist

Jill Farabelli, LCSW, APHSW-C

Jill Farabelli (she/hers), LCSW (NJ/NY/PA), APHSW-C, has 17 years of experience working in healthcare to address the psychosocial needs of patients affected by serious or life limiting illness as well as the needs of their caregivers.

Her background in pediatrics, hospice and palliative care has been the foundation for her passion in working with those facing serious illness or death. She is board certified in hospice and palliative care. She is the lead palliative care social worker at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania and Abramson Cancer Center. She received her Masters of Social Work at San Diego State University and has completed a Social Work Leadership Fellowship in Palliative and End of Life Care at New York University.

Jill is skilled in various treatment modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Strengths-based therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness, breath-work and grief therapy. Her approach with each client is to start from a place that is warm, compassionate and free from judgment. She believes each person should have the opportunity to be seen, heard and validated and that by focusing on one's strength, healing can be possible. 

    • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Level 1

    • Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Worker Certification (APHSW-C), Social Work Hospice & Palliative Network

    • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intensive Training & Certificate Course, PESI

    • Meaning Centered Psychotherapy, Memorial Sloan Kettering (NY)

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    • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Certificate of Completion

    • Anxiety Treatment Techniques

    • Calvary Hospital Annual Eleven Week Bereavement Course

    • Clinical Supervision Practice

    • Compassion Based Approaches to Working with Shame

    • Contemporary Grief Theory and Creative Strategies for Intervention

    • Coping with Secondary Trauma and Self-Preservation in HaPC Practice

    • Counseling Grief Clients Certification Training: Functional Interventions for Everyday Use (PESI)

    • Working with Grief and Trauma

    • Working with Trauma: Mindfulness and Compassion

 
 
 
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Specialist / Psychotherapist

Anne Kelemen, LCSW, APHSW-C, LICSW, LCSW-C

Anne Kelemen (she/hers), APHSW-C, LICSW (DC), LCSW-C (MD) and LCSW (NY) is a nationally board-certified palliative social worker and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University, where she works on the inpatient palliative care team. She has over a decade of experience working with people who have a serious illness and with their families and teaches in the Smith College School of Social Work’s End of Life Certificate Program. In addition to being the chair of the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Network, a national organization of over 1,000 social workers, she has received advanced clinical training in emotional freedom techniques and is working toward her certification in somatic experiencing. Anne is passionate about working with people facing acute, chronic, and serious illness. She is a certified Reiki practitioner and takes a body-based approach to therapy. Anne has particular interest in working with people dealing with the impact of illness on relationships, intimacy and those experiencing depression and anxiety.


    • Emotional Freedom Technique, Professional Education Systems Institute (PESI), (DC)

    • Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing International (In progress)

    • Reiki Certification

 
 

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