Alyssa Gavulic is a Marriage and Family Therapist and a Mental Health Counselor who has a PhD in Counseling Education and Supervision from Liberty University. She is a part of an active research team that is investigating the various dimensions of resilience as they apply to a variety of life experiences and populations.
  
Alyssa has an extensive background working with individuals, couples, and families within the military, veteran, widow, and bereavement populations. Her expertise in these areas comes from her education and training as well as her personal experiences. In addition to being a Special Operations military spouse for 15 years, she completed a year-long internship with the Chaplain Family Life Training Program at Fort Benning and then worked post-graduation with predominantly active duty military population and/or their families. After becoming a military widow in 2014 and losing one of her six children in 2015, she has also become actively involved in a variety of Gold Star family organizations, military and civilian widow organizations, and parent bereavement groups.
 
She now specializes in resiliency, wellness, military unique stressors, trauma recovery, marriage and family therapy, parenting techniques, and bereavement counseling. In addition, through her personal experience of several successive losses and her extensive academic research on factors involved in making sense of suffering and building resiliency, she now speaks at events and teaches at seminars around the country offering a uniquely multifaceted perspective on how one can endure and ultimately overcome adversity.