DEATH CREATIONS:
Embracing Death for a Fuller Life
2021 Virtual Conference Series

Presented by:
Carol S. Miller, LCSW

Carol S. Miller is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and is currently working with the Bereavement Services Team at with Casa de la Luz. In this role, Carol continues to develop, manage, and maintain Casa’s Bereavement Program, facilitates groups, meets with clients in 1:1 counseling, and supervises staff and interns. Carol began her career with Casa de la Luz in 2011 as a community social worker. Her position soon expanded to include bereavement counseling, and in May of 2014, she accepted the position of Bereavement Coordinator. Throughout her career, Carol’s personal and professional history with grief and loss have spanned a period of over 30 years, beginning with the deaths of her two sons shortly after births in 1986 and 1987. Carol earned her Master’s degree in Social Work through the Virginia Commonwealth University in 2001. Prior to moving to Tucson, she worked with The Washington Home & Community Hospices and with the Mautner Project, an organization devoted to providing services supporting lesbians with cancer.  Later she became part owner of a 4-therapist private practice called The Center for Well Being in Falls Church, VA, working with grief, a variety of mental health issues as well as with folks struggling with infertility and recurrent miscarriages.   Carol is currently a part of the teaching team with the Creative Grief Studio and is completing a certification program through David Kessler (author of Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief and many other titles) to become a Certified Grief Educator.  She holds certifications as a Creative Grief Support Practitioner, Compassionate Bereavement Care® Provider, a Clinical Trauma Professional, a Daring Way™ Facilitator, a Mind-Body Skills group Facilitator, and a Restorative Retelling group facilitator.  Carol sits on the board of TLC: The Learning Community for Loss, Grief and Transition.