“All human life has its seasons, and no one’s personal chaos can be permanent: winter, after all does not last forever does it? There is summer, too, and spring, and though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, that summer, but they do, and always."
T.Capote
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| About Us - Bios
Connie Saindon, MFT is the founder and director of the Survivors of Violent Loss Program and this website. She provides program development, oversight, supervision and training. She has served as director since 1998, first under the Victim Assistance Coordinating Council and then under the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She has provided clinical services, training and supervision of medical residents, interns and area clinicians in addition to providing direct services. She is co-author of a three year pilot study and has presented her work at the American Psychiatry Annual Conference in 2003.
Ms. Saindon has conducted numerous community presentations and media interviews. She has served on a National Board on Community Grief. She is a contributing author for Violent Death: Resilience and Intervention Beyond the Crisis and a soon to be released adult workbook called The Journey. Her work includes consultant services nationally and for the military.
Ted Rynearson, MD serves as consultant to Survivors of Violent Loss Program. He is a practicing, clinical psychiatrist in Seattle, Washington. Since his semi-retirement five years ago he has devoted more time and energy to researching the effects of complicated bereavement and violent death. He is a national and international clinical teacher, lecturing and training clinicians and service providers who restore loved ones after violent dying. During his spare time he is an avid jazz fan and rows each morning on Puget Sound in his single scull when the weather permits. He is the founder of Violent Loss Bereavement Society.
Sidney Zisook, MD serves as consultant to the Survivors of Violent Loss Program and is director of the University of California, San Diego Residency Training Program, and a Professor of Psychiatry at UCSD. Dr. Zisook's research centers on mood as both a primary and secondary manifestation/disorder. Much of his research has been focused on the natural history, differentiation from depression and treatment of grief and bereavement.
Kerry Essakow, MFTI is Assistant Clinical Director with the Survivors of Violent Loss Program. She provides clinical services and training as well as program development for Adults and Families.
Adjunct Clinical Team members include:
Meg Lawrence, MD
Jason Kornberg, MD
Erin Falvey, MFT
Wendi Maurer, Ph.D.
Honorary Clinical Contributor: Stephen Schuchter, MD. Stephen Schuchter, MD. Retired, former Medical Director of UCSD Outpatient Psychiatric Service and well known publisher and researcher on various topics including bereavement issues. Dr Shuchter also served as the Medical Director of the Survivors of Violent Loss Program.
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