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Steve
Sweatt, LPC/LFMT joined CGSS in
January 2009 as Clinical and Agency
Director, directing programs and counseling
services, counseling individual clients and providing
supervision for contract counselors. As a Licensed
Professional Counselor with experience in grief
and bereavement, crisis intervention and individual
counseling Steve brings more than 20 years of expertise
to our grief support programs. An ordained Baptist
minister and former medical center chaplain and
counselor, Steve was Founding Director and Clinical
Staff Chaplain, Pastoral Services at Medical Center
East (now St. Vincent’s East), a post he held
for 17 years. Steve is a clinical member of The
American Association of Pastoral Counselors, American
Association for Marriage and Family Therapists,
and the Alabama Association for Marriage and Family
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Carol MacMillan
was named Administrative Director
in January 2009 and manages the day-to-day activities
of the organization. She served as Interim Executive
Director following the retirement of the former
Executive Director. Carol initially served as volunteer
chair for the 2007 “Lift Your Spirits”
Silent Auction and subsequently worked part-time
as a grant writer and event coordinator. She is
well-acquainted with grief, having lost her husband,
younger sister and father in rapid succession. Carol
was a member of the 2007 “Young Widowed”
Support Group. As a trained volunteer she assists
with support groups. Carol retired as Marketing
Manager from Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC, where
she worked for 18 years. Prior to that, she was
with Rust International in Birmingham and Hospital
Affiliates in Nashville, TN. |
CGSS grief support
groups are loss-specific, closed-ended, and meet for a
set number of weeks several times each year. We offer
support group sessions for Widowed Persons of Employable
Age, Widowed Persons of Retired Age, Loss of an Adult
Child, and Loss of Parent, Grandparent or Sibling. All
support groups are led by professional counselors. Trained
volunteers, who assist with support group sessions, are
former support group members. They understand the pain
of loss, and from their own experience share how to rebuild
wounded lives.
Steve
Sweatt, LPC/LMFT, a Licensed Professional
Counselor, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and
ordained minister, is a facilitator for our Widowed Persons
of Employable Age, Loss of Parent, Grandparent or Sibling,
and Loss of an Adult Child grief support groups. Steve
also provides individual grief counseling at our Homewood
office.
John
Harris, a Professional Pastoral Counselor
and retired minister, is facilitator for the Widowed Persons
of Employed Age and the Widowed Persons of Retired Age
grief support groups. He also provides individual grief
counseling at our Homewood office.
Dr.
Jacqueline Kelley, a Professional Pastoral
Counselor and CPE Supervisor, facilitates the Loss of
an Adult Child group and provides individual grief counseling
in her office at Baptist Princeton Hospital. She also
counsels clients referred by UAB's Treatment Alternatives
for Safer Communities (TASC) Program.
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