Experience

Mari Nardolillo-Dias, EdD, NCC, FT, C-GC, C-CG-C, Death Doula, C-Psychological Autopsy

Mari Nardolillo-Dias holds a Master of Arts in Counseling and a Doctorate  in Educational Leadership with a focus on emotional intelligence.

• Thanatologist
• Certified Death Doula
• Professor of Counseling and Psychology
• Consultant/Motivational Speaker
• Completion of Psychological Autopsy Training
• Trained in Havening

Experience with children, adolescents and adults in a variety of supportive, psycho-educational environments with both individuals and groups.

Certifications

She is a Nationally Certified Counselor through the National Board of Counselor Certification, a certified grief counselor through the American Academy of Grief Counseling, a division of the American Institute of Health Care Professionals, and is a Fellow in Thanatology, Death, Dying and Bereavement, granted by the Association for Death Education and Counseling.

Active Memberships

• American Counseling Association
• American Mental Health Counselors Association
• Association for Specialists in Group Work
• Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling
• Association for Death Education and Counseling
• International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
• American Association of Suicidology

Volunteer

• Lindsay Ann Burke Memorial Fund: Vice President, Board of Directors
• Rhode Island Hospital, Trauma Unit: Patient/Medical team liaison
• Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island: Bereavement and End of Life Support
• Court Appointed Special Advocate: Represented children in DCYF in Family Court
• Rhode Island Department of a Corrections, Men’s Maximum Security Facility: Facilitator of bibliotherapy program “Changing Lives through Literature”

Recognitions

• Fulbright Scholar: University of Zululand, South Africa
• RI Jefferson Award
• St. Mary Academy Bay View, Alumna of the Year
• Faculty Fellow Scholarship for Community Service Learning: RI Campus Compact
• RI Woman of the Year in Arts & Education, sponsored by the American Association of University Women
• North Kingstown Town Hero
• Doctoral Merit scholarship

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