Our Team

Meet the Team 

 
 
 

President / Clinical Consultant

Dr. Abigail Nathanson, LCSW, APHSW-C, ACS

Abby (she/hers) has over 15 years of experience working in healthcare with people who are seriously ill or dying and with their caregivers, with healthcare professionals and with those in mourning. Her work has been in hospice, palliative care, skilled nursing facilities, major acute care hospitals and community non-profits, both on the front lines and in management and program development roles.

She holds board certification in Palliative Care and has written, taught and researched in areas such as bereavement, caregiving, death anxiety and coping with serious illness. Dr. Nathanson received both her master’s and doctorate in social work from New York University, where she is still on faculty part-time.

    • Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Care Providers, Memorial Sloan Kettering

    • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Level II Provider, AEDP Institute

    • EMDR Attachment-Based Trauma Certificate, Parts I and II, Parnell Institute

    • Social & Behavioral Research Basic Program Certificate, CITIAdvanced Palliative Hospice Social Worker – Certified (APHSW-C)

    • Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), Center for Credentialing and Education

    • Clinical Supervision Certificate, New York University

    • Palliative and End of Life Care Certificate, New York University

 
 
 
 
 

Specialist / Psychotherapist

Jill Farabelli, LCSW, APHSW-C

Jill Farabelli (she/hers), LCSW (NJ/NY/PA), APHSW-C, has 17 years of experience working in healthcare to address the psychosocial needs of patients affected by serious or life limiting illness as well as the needs of their caregivers.

Her background in pediatrics, hospice and palliative care has been the foundation for her passion in working with those facing serious illness or death. She is board certified in hospice and palliative care. She is the lead palliative care social worker at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania and Abramson Cancer Center. She received her Masters of Social Work at San Diego State University and has completed a Social Work Leadership Fellowship in Palliative and End of Life Care at New York University.

Jill is skilled in various treatment modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Strengths-based therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness, breath-work and grief therapy. Her approach with each client is to start from a place that is warm, compassionate and free from judgment. She believes each person should have the opportunity to be seen, heard and validated and that by focusing on one's strength, healing can be possible. 

    • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Level 1

    • Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Worker Certification (APHSW-C), Social Work Hospice & Palliative Network

    • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intensive Training & Certificate Course, PESI

    • Meaning Centered Psychotherapy, Memorial Sloan Kettering (NY)

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    • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Certificate of Completion

    • Anxiety Treatment Techniques

    • Calvary Hospital Annual Eleven Week Bereavement Course

    • Clinical Supervision Practice

    • Compassion Based Approaches to Working with Shame

    • Contemporary Grief Theory & Creative Strategies for Intervention

    • Coping with Secondary Trauma and Self-Preservation in HaPC Practice

    • Counseling Grief Clients Certification Training: Functional Interventions for Everyday Use (PESI)

    • Working with Grief and Trauma

    • Working with Trauma: Mindfulness and Compassion

 
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Specialist / Psychotherapist

Anne Kelemen, LCSW, APHSW-C, LICSW, LCSW-C

Anne Kelemen (she/hers), APHSW-C, LICSW (DC), LCSW-C (MD) and LCSW (NY) is a nationally board-certified palliative social worker and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University, where she works on the inpatient palliative care team. She has over a decade of experience working with people who have a serious illness and with their families and teaches in the Smith College School of Social Work’s End of Life Certificate Program. In addition to being the chair of the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Network, a national organization of over 1,000 social workers, she has received advanced clinical training in emotional freedom techniques and is working toward her certification in somatic experiencing. Anne is passionate about working with people facing acute, chronic, and serious illness. She is a certified Reiki practitioner and takes a body-based approach to therapy. Anne has particular interest in working with people dealing with the impact of illness on relationships, intimacy and those experiencing depression and anxiety.


    • Emotional Freedom Technique, Professional Education Systems Institute (PESI), (DC)

    • Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing International (In progress)

    • Reiki Certification

 
 
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Specialist / Psychotherapist

Veronica Dyer, LCSW, APHSW-C

Veronica Dyer (she/hers/ella) has nearly a decade of experience working with people facing acute and chronic illness and their caregivers in the context of hospice and palliative care, and is nationally board certified in Palliative Care. She has particular expertise working with individuals navigating the challenges of persistent pain and those grappling with and trying to make sense of loss, uncertainty and mortality, whether in their own illness or in that of someone close to them. She is a Level I practitioner in AEDP, and has extensive training in multiple advanced therapeutic modalities, including Prolonged Grief Disorder, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing, and incorporates them with an eclectic approach depending on the need of the patient. 

Veronica is a native, bilingual Spanish speaker from South America, and spent 15 years working for the United Nations prior to her career in social work. 

    • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Level I

    • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for anxiety, Beck Institute (PA)

    • Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy, Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia University (NY)

    • Meaning Centered Psychotherapy, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (NY)

    • Empowered Relief Certification for chronic pain, Stanford University (CA)

    • Advanced Clinical Practice Certificate, New York University (NY)

    • Bioethics Certification, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Benjamin Cardozo School of Law (NY)

 

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