Worth Kilcrease

Worth is a Licensed Professional Counselor and certified as a Fellow in Thanatology: Death, Dying, and Bereavement by the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC).

He is dedicated to counseling those who are suffering mental, emotional, social, moral, and spiritual pain related to death, dying, and bereavement. He provides bereavement counseling to people of all ages suffering the loss of a parent, spouse/partner, sibling, child, or unborn baby. He has led bereavement groups for Hospice Austin, the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas, The South Texas Chapter of The ALS Association, and the Blood and Tissue Center of Central Texas. Having counseled and comforted many caregivers and their dying loved ones, he is thoroughly familiar with the dying process and the stresses of being a caregiver.

Besides counseling, he has made numerous presentations on death, dying, and bereavement to various organizations and churches, has appeared on radio and television programs including Austin Now, Austin Faith Dialogue, and Law Talk with Brad, and is the co-producer and interviewer for the documentary video This Place. In addition to being an adjunct faculty member at St. Edward’s University, he is co-founder of Solace Center of the Hills.

Prior to beginning his career as an end-of-life and bereavement counselor, he spent 25 years as a business executive, mostly in finance. When he left the corporate world, he had been the chief financial officer and corporate secretary for two high technology companies and one private investment firm. He continues to sit on the Board of Directors of one of the high technology companies.

He received a B.S. and M.A. in Chemistry and an M.B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin, and most recently, an M.A. in Counseling from St. Edward’s University.

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