Tess Taft

Tess Taft MSW, LICSW is an oncology psychotherapist who has provided therapy to cancer patients and their loved ones in hospitals, cancer clinics, homes, nursing homes, hospice and private practice settings for 36 years. She received her MSW from The University of Washington in 1979 and was certified as a Marriage and Family Therapist in 1981. She worked at Cancer Care Northwest for 17 years as a family therapist and leadership development trainer. For ten years she developed and taught a Palliative Care certification program in the MSW program at EWU, comprised of three classes: Family Systems and Illness, Death and Dying, and Alternatives in Healing. Tess is a certified specialist in Interactive Guided Imagery and uses in tool in her clinical practice to help clients alleviate symptoms of stress, pain , and nausea, to prepare for surgery, integrate new bone marrow, and move through bereavement. She provided clinical supervision to committed to serving people whose life-threatening diagnosis (or that of a love) has propelled them on a journey inside themselves to find emotional and spiritual healing and wholeness.