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Carole Geithner

Carole Sonnenfeld Geithner has over 20 years of experience as a clinical social worker in schools and a university, hospitals, counseling agencies, and private practice with children, teens, and adults, many of whom had childhoods shaped by significant loss. In addition to her clinical practice, she leads Writing to Heal workshops for non-profit service organizations, including Gilda’s Club Westchester and Good Grief.

As an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University's School of Medicine, she taught listening skills to medical students. Carole serves on the board of The Sun Valley Writer's Conference. She grew up in Princeton, NJ and has lived in Washington D.C., NY, France, and Japan. Her mother, Portia Sonnenfeld, died when Carole was twenty-five. She is married and has two adult children. IF ONLY is her first novel, first published by Scholastic Press and now reprinted by Corinna Press.

For more information and news about the author and the book, please visit www.carolegeithner.com


“They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them." -Corinna”
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