About


Vicki’s private practice focuses on 1) helping individuals maintain stability after the death of a loved one, and partnering with them to reclaim a vital lifestyle after the loss; and 2) coaching individuals and executives to attain what they hope for and what matters most.

Ms. Panagotacos holds various professional certifications and is an ADEC Fellow. In addition to her private practice, she writes for her blog TalkingBittersweet.com. She isalsothe author of Gaining Traction: Starting Over after the Death of Your Life Partner, The Effect of Multigenerational Family and Social Systems on Meaning-Making (2010, Verlag), and the chapter entitled “Defining and Envisioning Self in Techniques of Grief Therapy” in Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved (edited by Robert Niemeyer, 2012, Routledge).

  • PhD in Thanatology
  • Masters in Transpersonal Psychology
  • Certified Life Coach
  • Certificate in Wellness Counseling
  • Certificates in Degriefing – Levels I & II: Somatic Aspects of Grief
  • Certified ADEC Thanatologist (Association for Death Education and Counseling) – Fellow/Advanced Standing
  • Internship – Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Training (Kabat-Zinn U Mass General Medical Center authorized MBSR program)
  • Certified EFT Practitioner
  • Certified Reiki Practitioner – Levels I, II, III
  • National Guild of Hypnotists – Certified Consulting Hypnotist
  • Certificates in Clinical, Medical, Advanced Ericksonian hypnosis and 100-hr hypnosis training, supervision and masters class with Michael Yapko, Ph.D.

Life Transition Coaching and Grief & Loss Counseling

Change is unsettling and your options may seem limited. Have you lost a job, had a relationship end, been diagnosed with a serious illness or had a loved one die? Any major transition, including retirement, involves loss and when there is loss there is grief.

I offer a safe collaborative environment where you will move from feeling anxious and out of control to feeling confident and capable of focusing on and accomplishing what matters to most to you. Whatever is going on, I can almost always help.

Services:

  • Learning about Loss
  • Anticipating Loss
  • Recent Loss
  • 2nd Year Partner Loss
  • Starting Over
  • Stuck in Grief
  • Coping with a Family Suicide
  • Divorce
  • Loss of Job
  • Loss of a Pet
  • Helping A Child Grieve



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