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More like a guide than a traditional psychotherapist, Lynn skillfully coaches her clients and helps them navigate through the overwhelming emotions, complex family dynamics and practical issues that accompany a serious diagnosis.

Lynn helps her clients cope with illness by creating a new context that provides them with a sense of empowerment and control, and the ability to live more productively and purposefully.

Her interest in the psychosocial aspects of illness inspired Lynn
to complete a doctoral program with a focus on family systems
medicine. In more than 25 years of private practice, Lynn has worked with people living with a wide range of diseases from cancer to chronic fatigue. She has trained more than 2,500 clinicians in her continuing education programs, and has developed and facilitated retreats for patients, families and caregivers.

Lynn currently serves as a consultant for the Palliative Care program at various Kaiser Hospitals in Northern California. She works directly with patients coping with chronic/progressive illnesses to address the changing needs of care, families and other concerns. She educates physicians, nurses and other staff about integrating palliative care into treatment plans, how to talk about end-of-life issues, and self-care for healthcare providers. In addition, she develops programs to expand palliative care resources into a broader range of departments within the Kaiser system.

With additional credentials as varied as the patients and families
she serves, Lynn also is an ordained interfaith chaplain, a life coach, popular storyteller and keynote speaker, and serves as adjunct faculty at the Chaplaincy Institute.

Background

Lynn Rogers: Part guide, advocate, therapist and coach (Photo by Evangeline Welch)

Lynn began her professional career as an audiologist at several New England hospitals. After moving to San Francisco, she headed up St. Mary’s Hospital’s audiology department and developed counseling programs for parents with deaf children. Lynn was an integral part of interdisciplinary teams, working with physicians, patients and families. Lynn lives in Northern California with her golden retriever, cat and a pair of Australian parakeets. Wing walking on airplanes was perhaps her most unusual summer job. Being with friends, traveling, skiing and Haagan Dazs chocolate-chocolate-chip ice cream enrich her life. Learn about how and when to refer your patients to me>