Sara Murphy, Phd, Ft Email & Phone Number

Sara Murphy, PhD, FT is a death educator, Certified Thanatologist and Fellow in Thanatology (Association for Death Education and Counseling), and suicidologist with eighteen years of scholarly, pedagogical, and professional experience in the field.Dr. Murphy has been a faculty member at the University of Rhode Island for sixteen years, where she has developed and taught over sixty courses on thanatological theory; death, dying, and bereavement; biopsychosocial grief experiences; disenfranchised grief; and stigmatized means of death. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Thanatology Graduate Program at Marian University, where she teaches courses on suicide, loss across the lifespan, social justice thanatology, and losses of addiction.Publicly, Dr. Murphy conducts diverse professional development and educational workshops, trainings, and seminars on specialized topics of grief and bereavement for businesses, schools, and professional organizations.Dr. Murphy is also a suicide and bereavement consultant, a contributing writer at Remembering a Life, an expert witness on suicide and on disenfranchised grief, and the author of the booklet, “Grieving Alone & Together: Responding to the Loss of Your Loved One during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” a free resource for helping professionals and individuals published by the Funeral Service Foundation.