June Dixon is one of the clinical social workers for the Inpatient Adult Palliative Care Team, providing supportive counseling and facilitating goals of care and advance care planning discussions with patients and their families. Special interests include grief, guided imagery for decreasing anxiety and pain, legacy activities, and support of children with a loved one with serious illness. June earned her Master’s in Social Work at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001, with dual focus in Families & Children and Mental Health Practice.
Since earning her degree she has received training in family therapy at Strategic Therapy Associates in Lynchburg, VA, and in specialized therapy modalities for issues of adjudicated adolescent boys from the DHHS of State of Tennessee. She has over 20 years of experience that in addition to inpatient hospital care includes providing outpatient, intensive in-home, and residential therapy for individuals, groups, couples, and families.