“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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Connie Saindon, MFT is the Founder and Clinical Director of the Survivors of Violent Loss Program which began as the Homicide Support Project in early 1998. Connie currently provides program development, oversight, supervision and training. She is co-author of a three year Pilot Study for the Restorative Retelling Model and has presented her work at National Conferences. Ms Saindon is listed among the few Violent Death Bereavement Specialists, internationally and a recognized leader in the Violent Death Bereavement Society.
Ms. Saindon has conducted numerous community presentations and media interviews. She has served on a National Board on Community Grief and is a contributing author of "Violent Death: Resilience and Intervention Beyond the Crisis". Based on the Restorative Retelling model, she authored of an adult self-help workbook called "The Journey", to reach many who do not have access to this promising approach. Her work includes consultant services nationally including the Department of Defense as a Military and Family Life Consultant. Contact Connie directly at csaindon@svlp.org.
Advisory Team Members:
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.
Honorary Clinical Contributor:
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.
Stephen Schuchter, MD. Retired, former Medical Director of UCSD Outpatient Psychiatric Service and a 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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