Dr. Terri Daniel is an end-of-life educator and interspiritual hospice chaplain and grief counselor. She is certified in death, dying and bereavement by the Association of Death Education and Counseling and in family-focused grief therapy by The Portland Institute. She conducts workshops throughout the U.S. and is an adjunct instructor in thanatology and chaplaincy at Marian University, the University of Maryland and the Graduate Theological Union. She is also the founder of The Conference on Death, Grief and Belief, and the Ask Doctor Death podcast.

Terri has a BA in Religious Studies from Marylhurst University, an MA in Pastoral Care from Fordham University, and a Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Care and Counseling from the San Francisco Theological Seminary.

Recently published papers include:

• THE STUBBORN PERSISTENCE OF GRIEF STAGE THEORIES
• TOXIC THEOLOGY AS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN COMPLICATED GRIEF
• Creative Personal Ritual as a Therapeutic Tool for Loss, Trauma and Transition
• Fowler’s Stages of Faith Development and Their Relation to Post-Traumatic Growth