Special guest speaker, Dr. Abigail Nathanson will be presenting a CJDF webinar on ways to help CJD families over the upcoming holiday season. 

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

To register, please call our Helpline at 1-800-659-1991 or email help@cjdfoundation.org.  If you have not called our Helpline before, please leave your phone number in the message so we can call you to complete the registration before November 17^th.