Susan A. Berger

Susan A. Berger, EdD, LICSW, has extensive experience counseling individuals confronting the death of loved ones and other significant life changes. She founded The Center for Loss, Bereavement, and Healing in Framingham, Massachusetts, a clinical practice that helps individuals, couples, and families cope with life stresses. She also provides workshops on her unique approach to lifelong grieving for community groups and professionals, including physicians, psychologists, social workers, nurses, and hospices.

Berger holds a doctorate in education from Harvard, a master’s degree in social work from Boston University, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, also from Boston University. She also holds a Certificate in Thanatology (Death, Dying, and Bereavement) from the National Center for Death Education at Mt. Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts.

Berger has served as a hospice volunteer for some time, working with the dying and bereaved families. She is herself the survivor of early parental loss.