Julie Guistwite

Julie Guistwite is the owner of Ripple of Light Bereavement Resource Center, LLC. She is an Advanced Certified Thanatologist and Pennsylvania Licensed Social Worker with 20 years of professional experience in nursing home, home health, hospice, and funeral home settings. 

Dr. Guistwite also has a decade of higher education expertise and is a continuing education presenter, primarily in a virtual format. Teaching experiences include authoring a palliative care course, instructing grief and health policy undergraduate classes, and graduate-level family and research offerings. 

She developed the social work profession’s first scale to evaluate and refine practitioners’ expertise in death, dying, and bereavement care. Her areas of expertise include older adults, thanatology, healthcare equity, and trauma. She is deeply passionate about the well-being of bereaved persons and growing providers’ skills.