Carrie Traher, PhD, FT, MEd, RSW, CCC
Carrie Traher, PhD, FT, MEd, RSW, CCC, has over 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist, researcher, university educator, and author. She is passionate about grief literacy, providing contemporary theoretical knowledge and evidence-based practices, and supporting community-building for grievers.
As a clinician, Carrie specializes in topics such as grief, loss, traumatic experiences, anxiety, depression, and challenging relational dynamics for individuals or couples seeking therapy. She has a particular area of expertise for those affected by illness, facing the end of life, as well as grief arising from death or non-death losses, particularly with accompanying traumatic incidents. She has obtained extensive education and training in bereavement theory and praxis as well as in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Flash Technique, Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT), somatic regulation, attachment, and interpersonal neurobiology.
In her role as a university educator, she developed curriculum for a broad range of topics, including grief counselling, children’s views of death and grief, traumatic grief, creative responses to bereavement, attachment, therapeutic counselling, and grief and sexuality. She has presented at international conferences and workshops, takes part in community-based initiatives that promote grief literacy, and facilitates grief retreats.
As a researcher, Carrie Traher was the founding director of the Grief and Loss Research Lab and currently holds the role of Research Associate. She has published numerous articles and book chapters, and is the editor of two volumes on child and adolescent grief, Understanding Child and Adolescent Grief: Supporting Loss and Facilitating Growth and The Routledge International Handbook of Child and Adolescent Grief in Contemporary Contexts.
Grief and loss are universal experiences that can lead to tremendous upheaval individually, locally, and globally. Carrie Traher believes that with accurate and informed approaches, we have the capacity to build more caring and compassionate communities.
Financial Disclosures: Carrie Traher, PhD, FT, MEd, RSW, CCC, receives a speaking honorarium from Leading Edge Seminars Inc.