Find a Certified Child Life Specialist
Find a trusted, verified certified child life specialist through our network of recommended specialists, so you can find someone who can help your family navigate illness, trauma, and loss.
These certified child life specialists have met the highest requirements and receive ongoing supervision to ensure your child and family receive the best care possible.
Find a Certified Child Life Specialist
Work with Shani Thornton, CCLS
Child Life Mommy
Shani has over twenty years of experience serving medically complex families. She has a Bachelor’s in Recreation Administration and a Master’s in Child Life. She supports children and families struggling with trauma, illness, and loss.
Work with Annie Gunning, CCLS, Certified Grief Counselor
Annie provides in-home services in Charlotte, NC and surrounding areas and virtual services as a Certified Child Life Specialist and Certified Grief Counselor with expertise spanning over 23 years, during which she has worked with infants, children, teens, and families.
→ In-home services in Charlotte, NC
Work with Kelsey Mora, PLLC, CCLS
As a dual-certified Child Life Specialist (CCLS) and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC), Kelsey offers personalized support, guidance, and resources for parents, families, and communities navigating the challenges of medical conditions, trauma, grief, and everyday life stress.
Work with Jessica Correnti, MS, CCLS
Kids Grief Support
Jessica is a CCLS, author, certified grief and loss provider, and bereaved mom with over 17 years of experience supporting families through all types of grief and loss.
Work with Alyssa Goff, MA, CCLS, LMHC, R-DMT
Coastal Counseling Associates
Alyssa has over ten years of experience supporting children, adolescents, and women through trauma, anxiety, and neurodiverse needs using a holistic, evidence-based approach.
→ In-home services Medway, MA (greater Boston area)
Work with Angie Bearsach, MA, CCLS, CFLE, CIMI,
Beaumont Consulting, LLS
Angie has been a CCLS since 1997 and has years of experience supporting children, adolescents, and women and her goal is to walk alongside women, children, and families in the valleys and peaks of life.
→ In-home services Miluakee, WI
Work with Abby Horton, CCLS
Little Lighthouses Child Life
My belief is that families find themselves needing even more support post-hospitalization and diagnosis as they find their new normal. My services are meant to be a touchstone for families – here when you need them most.
→ Virtual Option Available
→ In-home services: Greater Boston Area
Work with Adina Levitan, MS, CCLS
Illuminate Child Life
Adina Levitan, MS, CCLS, is a Certified Child Life Specialist with years of experience supporting children and families through medical procedures, new diagnoses, grief, and life’s big changes. She provides in-home offering compassionate, play-based support that helps children feel empowered, understood, and brave during challenging times.
Work with Corry Cande, MEd., CCLS, FMCHC, NBC-HWC
Corry Cande LLC
A Certified Child Life Specialist since 2001 and a parent of a child with a rare condition, she brings both professional expertise and personal understanding to support children and families with compassionate, individualized care through illness, trauma, and major life events.
→ In-home services St. Louis, MO
Work with Annie Sweeney, MS, CCLS
Rosebud Child Life
Annie Sweeney, MS, CCLS, is a Certified Child Life Specialist with years of experience supporting children and families. Her ultimate goal is to help children feel a sense of confidence in their abilities to deal with difficult things, and leave them with coping skills they will be able to use in stressful situations for years to come. I strive to foster a sense of self-advocacy, bodily autonomy and control in children, and help them understand the often complex world of adults that they live in.
Work with Hearts Connected LLC
Hearts Connected
Hearts Connected is a virtual mental health company connecting families to child life services throughout the United States and Canada.
