I was in the middle of my CPE Training (Clinical Pastoral Education) and deciding on my 4th-year thesis at Seminary when my father died at 56. My experience of pastors’ and counsellors’ roles in my family’s grief, with their advice-giving and placating was so horrible, that I decided to center my CPE on visiting the dying in hospitals and my thesis was on grief work with families and individuals. During my 30 years as an ordained pastor, I made a point of walking alongside the dying and grieving. I became a certified End of Life Coach to continue this passion, since my clients and congregants were experiencing my style of “walking with” as empowering to them.
Living in South Africa, I worked as a counsellor during the turbulent days of Apartheid oppression. Grief work included grief from deaths, loss of jobs, loss of dignity, loss from being unjustly imprisoned (an experience I had personally in 1986) and loss from political fighting. Having moved to the US, I continue to do grief coaching with people of various cultures, in the stages of dying or experiencing loss of loved ones, jobs and loss of societal functionality in old age.
Address: Gainesville, Florida
Phone Number: 612-202-8667
Email: terrancejacob@gmail.com
ICF Credential: PCC
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