Karen Grumme-Rodriguez

Karen is a Licensed Certified Social Worker with Advanced Certification in Hospice and Palliative Care. She is EMDR trained, SSP certified, and Polyvagal informed. She previously served as a hospice Bereavement Counselor providing innovative, contemporary evidence-based therapeutic grief and trauma support, as well as bereavement education, to individuals, organizations, groups and families within hospice and the NWA community. Karen decided to enter private practice founding The Sanctuary for Grief, Trauma & Life Transitions in Fayetteville to more broadly meet the emotional needs of the public.
Karen has been nominated for the Association for Death Education and Counseling Clinician of the Year award and the HPCAA hospice heart award. She has been a featured speaker at the National Hospice and Palliative Care conference. Karen continues to pursue excellence in Northwest Arkansas by providing evidence-based grief, trauma, and bereavement interventions; seeking to validate and normalize various types of life experiences.