Mila Ruiz Tecala is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and a recognized international authority on grief counseling. She has spent her thirty-year career seeking to understand the grieving processes that take place as a result of individual and catastrophic events. She has served at the Georgetown University Hospital’s Lombardi Center, as a consultant to the United States Peace Corps since 1984, and in private practice. After September 11th, she worked as a grief counselor with the employees of American Airlines. Ms. Tecala serves on the editorial advisory board of Social Work Today, has lectured around the country and abroad, and was named the Social Worker of the Year in 2000 by the National Association of Social Workers.
She is a graduate of the School of Social Work of the University of Michigan, and she lives and practices in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
