Phyllis Kosminsky, PhD, a clinical social worker specializing in grief, loss and trauma at the Darien, Connecticut-based Center for Hope/Family Centers, a nonprofit organization. She also is in private practice in Pleasantville, New York. She is coauthor (with John R. Jordan) of Attachment Informed Grief Therapy: The Clinician’s Guide to Foundations and Applications and author of Getting Back to Life When Grief Won’t Heal (McGraw-Hill). www.familycenters.org.
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