Worth Kilcrease MBA, MA, LPC, F

About

Worth Kilcrease is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Austin, Texas and a Fellow in Thanatology: Death, Dying, and Bereavement by the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC). He cousels people who are suffering mental, emotional, social, moral, and spiritual pain related to death, dying, and bereavement. He is an adjunct faculty member at St. Edward's University and a co-founder of Solace Center of the Hills. Prior to his career as an end-of-life and bereavement counselor, he spent 25 years as a business executive, serving as a chief financial officer and corporate secretary for two high technology companies and one private investment firm.

Recent Posts

Is It Real, or Is It Hallucination?

The impact of these messages can be enormous and life-changing.

Is “grief counseling” helpful or harmful to the bereaved?

Analysis of 61 research studies shows that the higher the level of bereavement-related distress, the greater the benefit mourners will receive from bereavement therapy.

Time Heals All Wounds, or Does It?

I often hear of people giving bereaved people advice similar to “you just need some time, after all ‘time heals all wounds.’” Time does not heal all wounds.

Stages of Grief - Time For a New Model

We need to quit trying to distill the interpersonal and intrapersonal complexities of mourning into a simplistic set of dogmatic grieving stages. Rather, we should use newer, more descriptive models that better describe the process.

Life Ends at 150, or Later?

Some medical researchers are beginning to sound like they have found the "Fountain of Youth" and soon we will live to be 150 years old. Why?