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STAFF
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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
Therapists. |
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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. |
COUNSELORS
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 many grief support
groups. Steve also provides individual and family 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 support groups
and provides individual grief counseling in her office
at Baptist Princeton Hospital.
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