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Karen Mason, Ph.D.

Dr. Karen Mason is a Professor of Counseling and Psychology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary where she has prepared students to be licensed mental health counselors since 2006. She completed an M.A. in Old Testament at Denver Seminary and an M.A. and Ph.D. in counseling psychology at the University of Denver. She is a licensed psychologist.

Before moving to Massachusetts, she managed the Office of Suicide Prevention at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. She has worked in the mental health field since 1990 with clients across the age-span and in a variety of settings. Her research is focused on the clergy’s and faith community’s role in suicide prevention.

To contact Dr. Mason, please email: karen@mason.ch

Dr. Melinda Moore is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) in Richmond, Kentucky, and part of the core faculty for the EKU Clinical Psychology doctoral program. She routinely trains clinicians in the empirically supported, suicide-focused treatment framework, the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) and is in private practice in Lexington, Kentucky.

Dr. Moore works at the intersection of faith and suicide prevention, having co-founded the Diocese of Lexington’s Mental Health Ministry. She published The Suicide Funeral: Honoring their Memory, Comforting their Survivors and After the Suicide Funeral: Wisdom on the Path to Posttraumatic Growth (both Wipf & Stock) with her co-editor Rabbi Dan Roberts. She conducts suicide bereavement research at Eastern Kentucky University with an emphasis on Posttraumatic Growth. Her research is an outgrowth of her own experience with suicide loss. Dr. Moore received her PhD from The Catholic University of America.

To contact Dr. Moore, please email: Melinda.moore@eku.edu