Carla Cheatham

Dr. Carla Cheatham began her career in psychosocial services with an MA in Psychology, certification in trauma therapy, PhD in Health & Kinesiology, and MDiv before working 10 years as an interfaith healthcare chaplain and bereavement coordinator. Carla is a national keynote speaker and consultant focusing on emotionally intelligent, resilient, and clinically excellent professionals and organizations, Chair of NHPCOs Ethics Advisory Council, former Leader for NHPCO's Spiritual Caregivers Community, Adjunct Professor at Seminary of the Southwest, and Assistant Professor for University of Maryland's MS in Palliative Care. She publishes books and videos about healthy leadership, resilience and emotional intelligence, trauma-informed care, cultural humility and values-neutral care, communication, attunement and attachment, boundaries, ethics, grief, service recovery, healthy family caregiving, and much more.