Jill McMahon is a licensed professional counselor focusing her work on grief and loss. She has specialized in working with Survivors of Suicide for the last 17 years. She helped to...view moreJill McMahon is a licensed professional counselor focusing her work on grief and loss. She has specialized in working with Survivors of Suicide for the last 17 years. She helped to build the LOSS (Local Outreach for Suicide Survivors) Program through EMPACT Suicide Prevention Center. This prevention program provides support services for Survivors of suicide from the inception of death, often times comforting families at the scene of a suicide. Jill can also be found providing suicide prevention presentations and trainings around the community, as well as speaking about Survivors of Suicide and complicated grief, nationally and internationally. She has been featured on several podcasts, and has helped to provide information for several publications.Jill's private practice, Spring Returns Counseling Services, can be found in Scottsdale, AZ. Through this practice she focuses on helping families maneuver this unique and complicated loss. She realizes no one is exempt from the complicated loss of someone to suicide, and the effects left behind are often tangled and complex. She believes each person closely related to a sudden loss has experienced a trauma and should be treated as such.view less