The GriefWork Companion - Activities for Healing
Fran Zamore is a clinical social worker, marriage and family therapist, Reiki Master and student of energy healing. She has extensive experience working with individuals, couples and groups as well as leading workshops. Her private practice focuses on life transitions, personal and spiritual growth, and loss, grief and healing. She creatively integrates physical, mental, spiritual and emotional awareness in her work. As with most people, Fran's life experience informs her work. The depth of her knowledge and understanding has been enhanced from her own healing journey after the eight-year illness and subsequent death of her husband. Synthesizing her own life experiences with her professional knowledge coupled with insights from participants in the many bereavement groups that she has facilitated and individuals she has counseled, led Fran to co-author GriefWork - Healing From Loss and the GriefWork Companion - Activities for Healing with Ester Leutenberg. Fran continues to focus her professional energy toward helping people navigate the journey from loss to a New Normal through her work as a hospice bereavement counselor and her private practice.   Ester A Leutenber has worked in the mental health profession for many years as both a publisher and as an advocate for those suffering from loss. She personally experienced a loss when her son Mitchell, after struggling with a mental illness for eight years, died by suicide in 1986. Soon after, as a way of both healing and helping others, she co-founded Wellness Reproductions & Publishing. Ester began developing therapeutic products that help facilitators help their clients. Ester, a breast cancer survivor, has counseled other survivros in overcoming body-loss issues.