Melissa Kelley
Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling
Biography
Melissa M. Kelley is associate professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. Previously, she was on the faculty of Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, MA. She has many years of pastoral-clinical experience, including in college campus ministry and individual pastoral counseling. She holds a Ph.D. from Boston University in pastoral psychology. Professor Kelley is a pastoral psychotherapist with the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education and a Fellow in Thanatology: Death, Dying and Bereavement through the Association for Death Education and Counseling, a primary organization in the country for bereavement researchers, educators, and clinicians. She has served as a pastoral formation guide with the Southern New England Association of the United Church of Christ and has produced numerous presentations and publications related to grief, including Grief: Contemporary Theory and the Practice of Ministry, published in 2010 by Augsburg Fortress Press.