LCSW – Licensed Clinical Social Worker
MSW – Master of Social Work
As a therapist who specializes in loss and grief, Pat Obst has walked the grief journey with many clients and has experienced losses personally. This led her to create the Afterwards Journey, to help clients grieve, heal, and recreate their lives after loss.
She began practice more than twenty years ago as a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and life coach. In addition to counseling and earlier in her career, Pat was a case manager in a mental health outpatient facility. She was then a care coordinator of in-home care giving services for older adults. Then, as a hospice social worker, Pat facilitated care and support for hospice patients and their families.
Her specialization in grief counseling came about 19 years ago after the loss of her infant son Ricky. Pat developed her specialization in grief therapy through years of additional training. Within that, she specializes in working with parents who have lost children.
Pat co-created and co-facilitated a program called Afterwards, LLC., which was dedicated to helping those 1-5 years past a major loss to step forward into the next chapter of their lives. She has led grief lectures, workshops, and done podcasts for The Starting Point, Inc. and has presented at the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) annual conference.
Pat’s Specialties are –
- Loss & Grief
- Divorce
- Grief-related depression
- Grief-related anxiety
- Grief related to life changing illness/injury
- Grief-related trauma
Type of Therapies
- Compassion Focused Therapy
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
- Holistic Therapy
- Humanistic Therapy
- Mindfulness Based CBT
- Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
Education: MSW – Master of Social Work, Rutgers University-Camden, NJ; BA -Sociology, Eastern College, St. Davids, PA;
Licenses: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), NJ
Additional Training: Continuing Education in grief and loss through The Columbia Center for Complicated Grief. Life coach training through the GROW Training Institute, Inc.
Contact Info
856-854-3155 x141
