EricsHouse Staff & Volunteers

Georgia Fox serves as the Director of Development at EricsHouse, where she leads fundraising strategy, donor engagement, and sustainable growth efforts. With a background in nonprofit development, she is passionate about building meaningful connections to create lasting impact. She cares deeply about the work of EricsHouse because she has witnessed the profound affect of suicide loss and understands how critical compassionate support is to healing. 

Jessica Davis has a bachelor’s degree from DeVry Institute of Technology and has been married 32 years to a loving and patient man.  As a homemaker, she had the privilege of homeschooling their daughters for 20 years while living in central New Mexico. Because she enjoys detailed, analytical, and organizational work, on the side she was self-employed as a bookkeeper for a small business.  After moving to Arizona in 2017, she worked for an accounting business then decided to expand her part-time bookkeeping business to include nonprofit organizations which has been a welcomed learning curve. In her role with EricsHouse, she maintains the financial records, generates financial reports, prepares tax documents, and reviews financials for grant applications.

April has served as a hospital, hospice and congregation chaplain for more than 30 years and currently serves as Campus Minister for the Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus. Certified as a Spiritual Companion in 1999, she has more recently continued her studies at the Chaplaincy Institute in Berkeley, California.

Barbara Murray is a Spiritual Director/Companion for EricsHouse and a Certified Celebrant Leader.  Barbara is a student of Dr. Alan Wolfelt and a facilitator of Emmaus Ministry retreats.  She lost her beloved daughter, Melissa Murray, to an overdose.

Carolyn Van Ness is deeply committed to engaging fully in the wondrous, mysterious unfolding of life and death. As a Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner for 30 years, her focus was on helping expand her clients understanding of “health” by using holistic practices to achieve optimal physical, mental and spiritual well-being.

More recently, after studying at the Zen Center for Contemplative Care and completing the Henry Fersko-Weiss Death Doula training, Carolyn became a Hospice “friendly visitor,” developed a “Widow to Widow” companion program and participates as a Death Café group facilitator for Circle of Friends for the Dying Hudson Valley.

As a parent who lost a son to suicide, she believes being able to be present with someone who shares a similar loss is one of the most important aspects of the healing journey through grief and mourning.

Matthew came to EricsHouse as a client after the loss of his son, Jacob, to suicide in 2021. He now facilitates support groups and welcomes new members. As a retiree of the US Armed Forces, Matthew understands the challenges men often face in processing grief. However, through peer support and the hard work of mourning, he has successfully found renewed meaning and purpose in life, a journey he now helps others navigate. He is a Certified Grief Companion through the Center for Loss & Life Transition.

Charlotte has been participating in prior groups organized and facilitated by EricsHouse. She tragically lost her oldest son to complications from his use of heroin in 2016. She is leading a support group as a Grief Companion because she wants to honor Brady and give meaning and a positive outcome to losing him to this disease. She aims to support others on their grief journey and share her experience.

Joette resides in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She has 2 daughters, a son in law, a beautiful granddaughter and two fur babies Charlie and Max! Joette joined EricsHouse two years ago and has attended groups after the loss of her daughter Sydney on Nov 29, 2020 to a drug overdose at the age of 30. This year she has joined EricsHouse as a co-facilitator and is training to become a grief companion.

Joette works as a full time Realtor and wants to give her support to others grieving the loss of a loved one in group sessions. It is her desire to give back to the organization that helped her, with her compassion and understanding of the journey we walk together.

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Dr. Kathleen is a nationally certified Family Nurse Practitioner working in private practice since 1997 and specializes in energy medicine. Her 12 years of emergency nursing experience grounds her present work.

She maintains a strong practice integrating numerous holistic modalities including energetic healing, reiki, functional nutritional medicine, yoga, visceral manipulation, neuro-muscular manipulation, and life coaching. Dr. Kathleen has been invited to speak across the country on numerous holistic health topics. Her doctoral project was titled: Breathing Techniques Associated with Improved Health Outcomes and was published in 2015. 

Certified Grief Companion (Dr. Wolfelt Method) and Certified Grief Recovery Specialist (GRS)

Marianne spent 35 years as an aerospace and defense executive. She was President and Vice President, along with various other capacities, with a concentration on international business development and program management.  She owned and operated an international aerospace company for more than 10 years.

Marianne left corporate America to pursue a business coaching certification through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).  After the loss of her youngest son, Marianne chose to turn her tragedy into good for others.  She founded EricsHouse in 2017 to help those left behind sort through these devastating losses in order to integrate their grief so they may find joy and happiness again.  EricsHouse helps people rise, survive, and thrive even in the face of devastation.

Outside of her corporate life, she experienced a number of life transitions encompassing career, business, loss of a sibling, loss of a child, loss of parents, a divorce, a Down Syndrome son, a Down Syndrome sister.  

Denise Campagnolo graduated from the Ohio State College of Medicine in 1988. Her clinical and academic years were spent first as Associate Professor at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, now Rutgers, devoting 11 years to academic pursuits. Afterward, she served as Director of the Neuroimmunology Program and Director of the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Clinic for 6 years at the Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix AZ.

Denise left clinical practice and joined a major Bio-Pharmaceutical Company in 2010. She is a Medical Director involved in the execution of medical strategies and clinical trials. On a personal note, she adores her loving husband of 33 years, Tom; her beautiful children Emily and Thomas (birth 7/30/95 – angel date 7/18/15).

In addition to her role at EricsHouse, Dr. Campagnolo serves as Vice-President for Through a Parents Tears, a 501(c)(3) organization producing a film project following eight families through their loss of a child to suicide. This production is meant to point toward hopeful transformation and connection between children and their parents.

Greg is an aerospace mechanical engineer by training and has spent the majority of his career working in the aerospace industry and then as a business process improvement (BPI) consultant.  

After his youngest stepson Eric died, Greg struggled to express and deal with his grief – as many men do.  Long-held priorities seemed less significant, new values took precedence.

Greg and Eric’s Mom founded EricsHouse in 2017.  Since then, he has become a Grief Specialist, leads Men’s Groups and Retreats, and designed and built a variety of landscaping projects at EricsHouse.  He still works as a BPI consultant when the right projects come along.

Mindy Szeto is a Professional Certified Life and Health Coach (PCC, CHC,) Yoga and Meditation teacher (RYT) and Qi Gong practice leader/teacher. She is the sole proprietor of Whole Life Discovery; A Pathway to Change.  Her first professional chapter of 23 years was spent in the Financial Industry as a Project and Program manager for some of the major Wall Street organizations. After the events of 9/11, Mindy decided to engage in professional efforts that spoke more to her value system and desire to help others.

Mindy was trained as a volunteer Grief facilitator for a local organization in New Jersey supporting children in grief when the unimaginable happened. Her youngest son at the age of 26 completed suicide. After attending different grief support organizations and eventually landing at Eric’s house, she decided to go for further training with the intention of becoming a voice of hope for others. Mindy facilitates Mom’s groups for those who have shared this traumatic loss thru either Suicide or Substance abuse.