About Me

Being a Second Generation Holocaust Survivor, I had a lot of exposure to loss. Most of my mother's and father's family members perished in the Holocaust. I experienced this trauma as a second-generation offspring. Upon reflection, I attribute my initial pursuit in grief studies to my attempt at making sense of my own personal experience. I then acknowledged and assessed that others could be assisted as well.

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While using several assisting methods, my work reflects my strong grief background, coming from over 20 years of academic and independent study as well as professional and a lifetime of personal experience. I see the impact on the well-being of loss due to various adverse circumstances that individuals experience. This view is different from the conventional cultural view related to grief which is primarily related solely to death. To share this innovative view, I developed the ground-breaking Acknowledge, Assess, Assist - components of the 3-A Coping Framework.  The 3-A Framework was originally devised in 2007 to address the losses and grief that caregivers experience while witnessing the decline of their family members living with dementia.  It has been academically published, widely presented and well-received.​