Bio: Terri Waibel, MSW, LCSW, FT is the founder and clinical director of Center for Compassion, a multi-provider private psychotherapy practice located in Chandler, Arizona dedicated to supporting the traumatically bereaved after the death of a beloved person. Center for Compassion is creating a more compassionate world so that no person has limited support for grief, trauma, or suffering. Terri is also the founder of the Southwest Institute for Grief and Trauma Studies, an education body that is closing the gap in grief education for helping professionals. As a 2025 Phoenix Business Journal Healthcare Innovator of the Year and the 2023 NASW of Arizona Social Worker of the Year, Terri brings 20 years of volunteer and work experience to the field.  Terri is simultaneously honored and heartbroken to be present with grievers and proud to call herself a grief activist. She devotes herself to this work in memory of her brother Brian and her beloved daughter, Kyndrid.