Ursula Weide, PhD, JD, LPC, CT
Dr. Weide, bereaved herself as a young spouse, is a Licensed Psychologist (MD) and Licensed Professional Counselor (VA) with more than twenty years of experience, providing comprehensive psychotherapy and counseling services for individuals, families, couples, and seniors. She graduated from George Washington University and Catholic University in Washington, D.C., with degrees in psychology, counseling, and the law. Furthermore, she is certified by the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) as a Certified Thanatologist (grief, death and bereavement specialist). She is also a member of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation and has experience working with individuals traumatized by violent death and continuing disturbing images. Dr. Weide works with Individuals, couples and families, and facilitates support groups. Dr. Weide is intimately familiar with the physical and emotional toll taken by the loss of a loved one. She also understands the difficulties of having to interact with others who JUST DON'T KNOW - but want you to "move on" within a certain period of time, overwhelm you with "good advice", and have ill-conceived expectations of how you should feel and act. Having gone through the experience herself, she is fully aware of the fundamental importance of taking care of oneself, developing new coping skills, learning to live better with the loss, building a future without the loved one who may have been the center of one’s life (as impossible as this may seem), and adjusting to the “new normal" - whatever this may be for a particular individual. In many cases the issue also is, to put it frankly, a decision whether to continue living or not. In addition to providing individual and group grief counseling and management in private practice for
surviving spouses or partners, siblings
,
adolescents
and
parents mourning the death of a child,
Dr. Weide has worked in nursing homes, extensively engaged in grief and end-of-life counseling with seniors. Dr. Weide is a proud member of the Maryland State Funeral Directors Association Disaster Response Team (www.msfdadrt.com). This is one of only four such state teams in the nation. It was deployed during Katrina. Much to her regret, she was not a member yet at the time. She has also provided continuing education for the MSFDA on the mental health aspects of grief as encountered in funeral homes, and on how to support the families. Dr. Weide has lived abroad and provides counseling and psychotherapy services in German and French as well. Because of her in-depth experience with traumatic loss and grief, Dr. Weide brings a particularly insightful perspective to grief arising from other losses such as separation and divorce. As she knows from her own experience, receiving knowledgeable and experienced support at the most difficult times of our lives can make all the difference! Please click here to contact Dr. Weide or call (703) 548-3866 in Virginia or (240) 229-1893 in Maryland for more information. communities and zip code areas: |
