Learn the complexity of suicide grief and how to work with survivors of suicide and earn CE credit hours.


Dr. Patricia Timerman Barbosa da Silva LMHC, LMFT, QS, NCC

Dr. Timerman has been working with suicide postvention since 2012. At the advent of her career, Dr. Timerman worked at the 1800-SUICIDE, where she focused on prevention and intervention. Towards the end of 2012- end of 2021, Dr. Timerman started to facilitate a group for survivors of suicide loss through the Florida Initiative for Suicide Prevention, switching her focus towards postvention. Dr. Timerman also used her PhD to focus on understanding suicide grief, further adding to the body of literature in this population. Aside from her academic and clinical experience with suicide grief, Dr. Timerman also has a personal experience with suicide grief through the loss of a dear friend to suicide.