Shannon is a long-time Buddy Volunteer at our youth grief support programs and over the years has held many roles. In addition to working directly with our kids and teens, she is a licensed psychotherapist and has volunteered at Camp Good Mourning on the care team, which supports volunteers and members in a therapeutic capacity.
On April 17, Shannon will take on another program with Kate's Club and participate in our upcoming virtual panel "Culture Conversations: South Asian Communities and Grief." This is the latest installment in our ongoing series of Lunch & Learns to approach grief support with higher cultural understanding. Here's a note from Shannon on the importance on this panel.
A licensed psychotherapist on cultural humility in grief support
I’ve been volunteering with Kate’s Club for a little over 10 years now!
I enjoy the creative and narrative approach we take on processing grief. As a narrative psychotherapist, I find such value in storytelling and co-regulation—both of which are ever-present at Kate’s Club!
Cultural humility begins with challenging the interpretations we hold about how other groups understand their own grief traditions. By considering that there are many ways to conceptualize death, we open ourselves to new and deeper levels of empathy. Not only does it give us a more full scope of the world, but it also broadens our coping repertoire as we grieve.
I hope this panel works to demystify the grief traditions across South Asian cultures. Whether commonality is found in ritual, ceremony, or beliefs, I would love for people to recognize even a tiny part of their own culture mirrored back to them! That is what builds true empathy.
I’m excited for the conversations I know this panel will spark and I hope I can steward them well!
Join Kate's Club for culture-informed Lunch & Learns
Culture Conversations: South Asian Communities and Grief will be hosted virtually on April 17, 2026. Join us for the latest installment of our ongoing Lunch & Learn series to help therapists, social workers and other youth and young adult professionals to provide culturally informed grief support.
Register for free here.
Contact Kate's Club to become a grief-informed therapist
Kate’s Club empowers kids and teens, their families, and young adults facing life after the death of a parent, sibling, caregiver or someone important to them. The organization builds healing communities through recreational and therapeutic group programs, education and advocacy. Since its founding in Metro Atlanta in 2003, Kate’s Club has served thousands of individuals who are grieving, through both member and outreach services. Kate's Club offers services in Metro Atlanta, Southwest Georgia, Northeast Georgia and Coastal Georgia.