Meet Our Founder

Reverend Liz Danielsen, Chaplain, is the Executive Director, President & CEO of Danielsen Center for Hope after Loss. As an ordained minister who completed her pastoral education with an emphasis in hospital and hospice ministry, Liz obtained her Bereavement Facilitator certification and her Death and Grief Certification. Liz’s pastoral training was done at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, NJ. She has also been on staff and ministered as a Chaplain at Newton Memorial Hospital, The Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice in New Jersey, and The Hospice of the Piedmont and Culpeper Regional Hospital in Culpeper, Virginia.

Out of her work with people of all ages, she saw needs that were not being met to support those who were chronically ill, dying, grieving, or experiencing personal losses and those who journey with them, so she founded Spiritual Care Support Ministries, Inc., and opened the ministry center in Warrenton, VA, in 2004. Chaplain Liz provides overall direction for the work of SCSM, while continuing to work individually with people who are in need of healing, as well as conducting support groups, training sessions, and retreats. When invited, she also preaches and shares the ministry of SCSM at churches throughout Virginia, the USA, and overseas. Liz was married for over 50 years to Arvid Danielsen and has three children and eight grandchildren.