Wanda Tucker, GC-C

Wanda Tucker is a Certified Grief Counselor and information technology professional who has spent more than two decades building a career in tech while now channeling her personal experience with loss into a growing grief-support practice. After earning her bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Monroe University, she built a long career in the legal sector, including nine years as a Technical Analyst at Sidley Austin LLP, before moving into roles supporting nonprofit and education organizations. She currently applies her technical background at the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation while also teaching basic technology skills to formerly incarcerated students through a contract role at Mercy College.

Tucker's path into grief counseling began in 2021, when the loss of her mother led her through eighteen months of complicated grief. That experience prompted her to pursue formal training, and she completed her certification through the American Academy of Grief Counseling in 2024. Since then, she has been developing her practice, offering support to both those who are grieving and the people around them. Her work centers on a signature CARE framework, detailed in a workbook she authored, which helps clients name and understand the specific ways their grief shows up, whether through anger, numbness, or exhaustion, so they can begin to move toward healing.

Beyond one-on-one counseling, Tucker incorporates art therapy into her practice and is developing workshops and a certification program aimed at building community around grief support. She is especially passionate about expanding public understanding of grief beyond loss through death, pointing to experiences like retirement or the end of a relationship as forms of grief that often go unacknowledged. Guided by a belief that no one should have to grieve alone, she is working toward a full-time transition into grief counseling, with the goal of helping others find healthy outlets for their emotions and uncover the positive growth that can emerge from loss.