Carissa Hodgson
Carissa has been a Program Manager at Gilda’s Club Madison Wisconsin since 2009. She is a Family Therapist and Oncology Social Worker who has worked in areas of child and adolescent development, chronic illness, caregiving, gender identity, sexuality, trauma, grief and loss, and family systems. Her work at Gilda's Club centers around supporting kids and families who are navigating a cancer journey, shaped largely by her childhood experience of losing her father to lung cancer and step-father to liver cancer. Carissa works directly with survivors and co-survivors of all ages, as well as develops psychoeducational programs to support the whole family.
