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| Charli Prather, MSW, LCSW, OSW-C, Clinical Program Director
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Charli is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who holds memberships in the Association of Oncology Social Workers and the American Association of Sexuality Education Counselors.
She has over 18 years of experience working with patients with chronic illness as well as hospice, teaching at the university level and workshop development for nurses and social workers in hospice and long term care. Charli has a personal commitment to survivorship issues that include the Mind/body connection. Charli has additional training in the field of Gestalt therapy. She is an Adjunct Faculty Clinical Supervisor for Saint Louis University School of Social Work and volunteers for various veterans organizations, including Give an Hour.
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| Kevin Ferris, MSW, LCSW, CMC, Associate Program Director
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Associate Program Director, Cancer Support Community of Greater Saint Louis
Kevin spent 10 years working with hospice patients, their caregivers and extended families before opening Ferris Counseling Services: Integrating Mind, Body, Spirit in 2002 - a private practice focused on clients with life-threatening illness, grief, and other issues involving loss and transition. She also speaks publicly on many topics and teaches and advocates for Financial Wellness as a necessary component to any stress reduction program. The keystone to Kevin’s clinical approach is Mindfulness – utilizing the tools of meditation, guided imagery, and body awareness exercises, among others. Her favorite quote (by Alan Cohen) is: “History is NOT Destiny...”
Kevin currently serves as Cancer Support Community's Associate Program Director, and facilitates the weekly Family and Friends Support Group, the monthly Networking Groups for both Gynecological and Pancreatic Cancers, and Practical Meditation.
kferris@cancersupportstl.org
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Kathy Bearman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who joined the Cancer Support Community staff as a facilitator in 2007. Her ties to CSC date back to 1992, when she worked with other volunteers in the community to establish the original organization. In addition to facilitating groups at CSC, she sees individuals, couples and families at her private practice in Creve Coeur. Areas of specialty include women's issues, grief and loss, and depression and anxiety. Kathy is a Certified Gestalt Therapist, Transformational Imagery Facilitator as well as a professional pianist. She often incorporates music therapy techniques, imagery work, relaxation training and meditation in her work with clients.
She currently facilitates the Women's Cancer Support Group, a Bereavement Group, the Breast Cancer Networking Group and the GI/Colorectal Networking Group.
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Torie graduated from Saint Louis University with her Master of Social Work degree. Torie works as a Medical Social Worker at Missouri Baptist Medical Center. Torie's passion in the field of social work is helping to empower individuals diagnosed with cancer. Throughout her undergraduate and graduate programs, Torie served as an intern at Cancer Support Community co-facilitating participant and caregiver support groups. She gained additional experience in working with individuals diagnosed with cancer during her internships at Missouri Baptist Cancer Center and BJC Hospice. These experiences have provided Torie with the opportunity to gain a broad perspective about the effects of the diagnosis of cancer. Torie facilitates the Lung Cancer Networking Group and the Return to Wellness Post Breast Cancer Series.
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Katy Miller received her B.A. in English from Vanderbilt University and her M.S.W. from the Brown School at Washington University. Her experience includes individual, family, and group therapy. She facilitated groups for teens on issues ranging from communication and coping skills to healing from sexual abuse. Additionally, she was a home hospice social worker with BJC Hospice for over six years. During that time, she worked closely with individuals, families, and caregivers facing life-limiting illness. She's been a guest lecturer in classes at Washington University, Fontbonne University, St. Louis University and St. Louis Community College at Meramec. Katy operates private practices in Clayton and Webster Groves. She facilitates the Women Under 40 Breast Cancer Networking Group.
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| Kimberly Lawson, MSW, LCSW, Children's Program Coordinator
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Kimberly (“Kim”) joins Cancer Support Community with over 25 years in oncology social work. She is also a Certified Professional Grant Writer and Compassion Fatigue Therapist and Educator, licensed in clinical social work in Missouri and Florida. Her career experience includes clinical work in both acute and ambulatory/specialty cancer care, research, grant writing, new program development, continuing education development and public speaking, and psychosocial oncology program management, evaluation and administration. Kim is a three-time recipient of the American Cancer Society’s National Oncology Social Work Training Grant and has been active as a volunteer for multiple non-profit cancer-related organizations. She is a Past President of both the Association of Oncology Social Work and the Florida Society of Oncology Social Workers. Honored by her peers at both the clinical and leadership levels with awards in oncology social work, in 2007 Kim received the American Cancer Society’s Florida Division’s inaugural Leadership in Oncology Social Work Award. Kim’s career passion for working with parents, grandparents, other adults and their children and grandchildren affected by cancer spans several years, beginning in Florida where she led the development and implementation of a Parent and Grandparent Resource Program for those patients and their children affected by cancer for her former employer, Florida Hospital Cancer Institute, in Orlando. There she also collaborated in 2004 with author Stacy Barton on the children’s book, Babba and I Went Hunting Today, “an endearing story” focused on helping parents and grandparents talk with the children in their lives about cancer.
Kim is delighted to support the Cancer Support Community of Greater St. Louis as it develops new opportunities to support children, parents, grandparents and other adults affected by cancer.
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John has been a group facilitator at Cancer Support Community of Greater St. Louis since 1995. As a Licensed Professional Counselor, he works with individuals, couples and families in his private practice in Olivette, MO. He facilitates several weekly Patient Support Groups at Cancer Support Community, the Brain Tumor Networking Group and the Prostate Cancer Networking Group.
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Jeff has a private psychotherapy practice in the Central West End, where he sees individuals, couples and families. His specializes in grief and loss; caregiver stress; and depression and anxiety resulting from long-term illnesses.
Jeff graduated from Washington University’s George Warren Brown School of Social Work with an MSW degree (emphasis in gerontology and mental health) in 1992. He completed the Advanced Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute in 2002. He joined the staff of The Wellness Community of St. Louis in early 2007. He facilitates the Cancer Bereavement Support Groups and the "Cancer Transitions" Cancer Survivors' Networking Group at Cancer Support Community.
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