She serves on the board of the American Association of Suicidology as the chair of the Clinical Division and is the co-lead of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s Faith Communities Task Force. She is the editor of The Suicide Funeral: Honoring Their Memory, Comforting Their Survivors (Wipf & Stock, 2017) and conducts suicide bereavement research at Eastern Kentucky University with an emphasis on posttraumatic growth.