About Dr. Weide

Dr. Ursula Weide is a Licensed Psychologist, Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Thanatologist (a Grief and Bereavement Specialist, certified by the Association for Death Education and Counseling). She has practiced as a psychologist for more than twenty years and added the grief specialization many years after her 47-year old husband died unexpectedly. She graduated from George Washington and Catholic Universities in Washington, D.C., with degrees in psychology, counseling and the law.

Dr. Weide works individually, with families, and in small bereavement support groups with survivors of traumatic losses to assist them with managing their grief and developing coping skills so that they can eventually face a new future.

Traumatic losses are deaths which are sudden, untimely, violent (such as suicide, homicide, accidents), death of a loved one in the ICU, multiple losses, and the death of someone in whose terminal care we have participated.  Even though individual circumstances are different, the impact on the survivors and the issues confronting them are very similar.  She prefers the term “traumatic bereavement” but “complicated grief” is often found in the literature.

Dr. Weide has received training in critical incident stress management and debriefing by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation ICISF.ORG. She has conducted continuing education seminars for several professional organizations and considers herself an advocate for those who have experienced traumatic losses at any age.

Dr. Weide is in private practice in Bethesda, MD, and in Alexandria, VA. Her website is: www.coping-with-loss-and-grief.com.