Dr. Winokuer's Professional Biography

Howard R. Winokuer, Ph.D., is the founder of the
Winokuer Center for Counseling and Healing in Charlotte,
North Carolina where he maintains a full-time clinical
practice. He completed his Ph.D. in 1999 at Mississippi
State University where he developed the first course in
Grief Counseling Skills. As the founder of TO LIFE, a
not-for-profit educational and counseling organization, he
was the associate producer of seven PBS specials and
helped pilot one of the first teen suicide prevention
programs in the Southeast. He has taught numerous
courses and been a guest lecturer at many colleges and
universities including: New York University, Rochester
University, The University of North Alabama, Queens
University, Appalachian State University and the University
of North Carolina.

Dr. Winokuer has conducted workshops and seminars
throughout the United States as well as nine foreign
countries. Currently he is presenting programs for the
CMI Educational Institute on "Grief Counseling: The Best
Clinical, Practical and Integrative Skills and Interventions".
Some of his programs have been presented to St.
Christopher's Hospice and St. George's Medical Center,
London, England, The National Assistance Board,
Barbados and the United States Embassy, The Hague,
Netherlands. He wrote a bi-monthly column entitled
"Understanding Grief" in The Concord Tribune and
hosted a regular radio show on WEGO entitled Life Talk.
He was a consultant to WBTV, the local CBS affiliate,
after the tragedy of 9-11 and has been the mental health
"professional on call" for Fox TV's news show "The
Edge". In the recent past, he has appeared twice on the
radio show "Healing the Grieving Heart" and has been
interviewed by the ACA Journal, Counseling Today, as
well as in The Staten Island Advance, The Houston
Chronicle, The Charlotte Observer, The Detroit Free
Press and the Chicago Tribune. Winokuer also led an
international delegation of funeral directors to Russia and
Holland to study death and funeral practices in those
countries.

Howard has been actively involved in the field of dying,
death and bereavement since 1979. He has presented
workshops and seminars to many organizations including:
The National Funeral Directors Association, The
University of North Carolina's Department of Neurological
Surgery, the Tennessee Health Care Association and
Presbyterian Hospital. He also developed the crisis
management plan for the Cabarrus County School
System.

He served as the president of the Association for Death
Education and Counseling (ADEC) from 2009 - 2010.
Howard has been an active member of ADEC for almost
three decades and has served in numerous leadership
positions. In his almost thirty years of membership, he
has chaired the national public relations committee,
co-chaired the 2000 and 2003 national conference,
served on the Board of Directors, and chaired the 2011
conference that ADEC hosted with The International
Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary
Society.