Roslyn A. Karaban   M.Div., Ph.D.

Roslyn is a licensed marriage and family therapist and sees individuals and families. She has taught pastoral care and counseling for the last 20 years at St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry where she is a Professor. Her specialty is crisis intervention and complicated grief. She was formerly a staff counselor at Samaritan Pastoral Counseling Center. She has directed a program in hospice chaplaincy for the last 10 years and is currently a consultant for a hospital chaplaincy program in Elmira.

Roslyn is a Fellow in AAPC (American Association of Pastoral Counselors) and recently served a four-year term as Chair of the Eastern Region. She is also certified in Thanatology through ADEC (Association for Death Education and Counseling). 

She is the author of numerous articles and four books, most recently Complicated Losses, Difficult Deaths (2000) and Crisis Caring (2005), both with Resource Publications, Inc.