ABOUT

Jill A. Harrington is a counselor/therapist, author, and educator with twenty-four years of experience in helping people cope with loss and change. Dr. Harrington has a long career working as a manager and director in the nonprofit sector as well as academic research settings. She maintains a small private practice in the National Capitol Area and works as an Associate Professor, Adjunct at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Washington DC Campus. Along with her clinical and teaching work, she develops and conducts professional education trainings as well as support programs about living with loss, coping with life transitions and managing anxiety and other difficult emotions related to change. She works with individuals across the lifespan with a focus on on young adult to older adulthood. She is the creator and lead editor of the novel textbook, Superhero Grief: The Transformative Power of Loss, published by Routledge and co-edited with Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD. She is one of the first published authors on U.S. Military Family Bereavement and has authored many book chapters and journal articles. Her goal, in all of her work, is to promote a deeper understanding of death and non-death related losses, adaptation to change, post-traumatic growth, compassion and humanistic care while helping to create a more grief-informed world - subscribing to modern thanatology models that are non-linear, and allow for the inclusion and diversity of the human experience of loss and change.

EDUCATION University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice (DSW); Adelphi University (MSW); The Catholic University of America (BA).

LCSW: Commonwealth of Virginia LCSW-C: Maryland