Kathleen O'Hara, MA
Creative Strategies for Living
Kathleen O' Hara, MA is a psychotherapist, survivor, activist and author of A Grief Like No Other, Surviving the Violent Death of Someone You Love. (Avalon, 2006)
In 1999, her eldest son Aaron was murdered while at The Franciscan University in Steubenville—this was the event that changed her life and forced her into the journey of a grief unlike any other.
Five years after Aaron’s death, she began work on what was to become a seven stage model to help others survive the devastating consequences of losing someone to violence.
A Grief Like No Other is based on both her personal experience of grief and her work with many people who have lost someone to violence.Anyone who has lost a loved one to violence knows the terrible journey that lies ahead and how difficult it is not only to survive, but live again.
A Grief Like No Other offers a way to make the journey safely, with tools and skills that will help survivors cope with the on-going consequences of grief. It is written for survivors, but also for friends who don’t understand or don’t know how to help or what to say.
Kathleen has become a national public speaker, workshop and retreat leader and tireless worker on behalf of victim’s rights and services.
She understands what victims experience and how to help. She works with many organizations and victims service providers to help them serve victims with compassion and justice.
She serves on the board of WitnessJustice.org, and is a member of the National Organization of Victims Assistance, and the World Society of Victimology. She is active in the victims services community of Philadelphia.
She has developed curricula based on her book, and offers it to educators, clergy, psychologists, and the medical profession.
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