Clinicians Who Have Agreed to be Contacted in the Event of a Suicide LOSS

The Clinician Survivor Task Force and its members provide the following list of clinicians to call or contact for help in the event of a client suicide. They have each agreed to have their names and contact information posted here so that they might serve as a resource for clinicians who have lost a client to suicide.

Nina Gutin, PhD

Vanessa McGann, Ph.D.

Paula Marchese, LCSW

Marcia Epstein, LMSW

  • Kansas, USA

Charles Vorkoper, LMSW-ACP, LPC, LMFT

Ann Brown, LMFT, LPC

  • Virginia, USA

Sue Foster, MA, LMFT

  • California, USA

  • E-Mail: nm1suef@aol.com

  • Lost daughter in 1991 and lost a client to suicide

Onja Grad, PhD

Rebecca G. Walkley, NCC, LMHC, CGP

Sarah Gaer

  • Massachusetts and Connecticut, USA

  • E-Mail: sarahgaer@gmail.com

  • Lost 3 friends by the time she was 20 with the last one being her best friend. She would be very happy to be support to young adults who have lost a friend.

Philip O'Keeffe, PhD MSc Reg MBACP (Accred)

Thomas Kauffman

Donna Sternbach

Christine Linnehan

Andrea Henderson

Marlon Rollins

Aruna Jha

  • Wisconsin, USA

  • E-Mail: ArunaJhaPhD@gmail.com

  • For South Asian Clinicians and for clinicians who have lost patients, friends, family, colleagues, in the South Asian community.

Dr. Em Ribnik, Ph.D., LPCC-S

  • Ohio, USA

  • E-Mail: eribnik@kent.edu

  • Has lost friends, clients, and colleagues to suicide; Have also conducted research on impact of suicide loss on mental health clinicians and clinical supervisors.

Julie Mizner

Rebekah Gibbons