Lorraine Hedtke

Lorraine Hedtke MSW, ACSW, LCSW, Ph.D. is the program coordinator and an associate professor of counseling and guidance & PPS Credential program, San. She is also the proprietor of The Fabula Center a counseling and training center in Redlands, California. Her academic history includes a bachelor’s degree in women’s studies and sociology from an innovative liberal arts program focusing on rigorous academic training and narrative evaluation at Johnston College, now, Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands. She received her MSW from Arizona State University and worked as a medical social worker early in her career and quickly came to work with people who were dying in hospices and their bereaved family members. Her PhD was granted in 2010 from Tilburg University, in The Netherlands and her dissertation studied narrative grief psychology, specially looking at new approaches to bereavement practices, particularly in a group setting.