Gae Savino, LCSW, CT is a licensed clinical social worker & certified death, dying & bereavement counselor. Gae provides mental health, end-of-life & grief counseling for individuals 18 years+ in her Westchester private practice. She is Founder of Mindful Heart Counseling Services. Gae received her Master’s in Social Work from Fordham University's Graduate School of Social Service. Gae did post graduate training at Columbia University’s Center for Complicated Grief. Additional training included the College of New Rochelle's Graduate Certificate Program in Thanatology, Calvary Hospital & The Bereavement Center of Westchester’s Tree House Program. She facilitates a variety of bereavement support groups: Death due to Addiction, Spousal, Parent, COVID Loss & Long Haulers due to COVID. She serves as an associate counselor with Catholic Charities Parish Counseling Network & its EAP. Gae served as an active volunteer with the WMCHealth Caregiver’s Center providing bereavement support for staff & family members in the Level I Trauma & medical ICU’s throughout the hospital. Gae is a frequent workshop presenter on issues of death, dying, bereavement, complicated grief & the multifaceted impact of COVID.

Linnie Larson Pickering, LMSW received her BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania and her master’s degree in Social Work from Columbia University, where she won the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement. She is a specialist in the prevention of domestic violence, child abuse, suicide, and sexual assault. She has worked on New York State suicide, crisis, and domestic violence hotlines.  She has developed and presented workshops on the above topics at both national and international schools and educational conferences. She co-authored "34 Cranberry Lane," a video and discussion workshop on Domestic Violence in suburbia. Linnie is the author of Blue Sky: The Oral History of James L Greenwald, in which he reminisces about a life and career lived to the fullest as well as the emotional challenges of aging, declining health and facing one’s own mortality. Linnie did extensive postgraduate training at Columbia University’s Center for Complicated Grief. She has a private therapy practice in Rye, NY with a focus on loss and grief, and she is a frequent workshop presenter on topics related to loss, death, dying, bereavement, and Covid-19.