Zaneta Gileno

Zaneta is a grief professional and social worker with education and experience in psychotherapy, program management, and non-profit services, with an emphasis in military families and traumatic bereavement. A Columbia University School of Social Work graduate, her talents and expertise in curriculum and staff development include workshops and research for military families, grief and bereavement, trauma and peer support services. 

Her private practice, Hope Rising Psychotherapy & Wellness, in Utah, offers individual grief and trauma work, and hosts adventures and retreats allowing those she works with to connect to their peers and focus on their healing in more focused and intentional ways.  She enjoys connecting with those facing lives they didn't plan for and helping them learn to redefine their new normal in meaningful ways. 

She currently serves as Senior Mental Health Advisor and Board Member for Repatriate Our Patriots which works to ensure the service and sacrifice of Veterans who have been deported can be recognized. Including having them returned home to the US to access the rights they fought honorably for, and the services and benefits they rightfully earned.
Her career highlights include serving as a subject matter expert for initiatives created by then President Barack Obama and First Lady, Michelle Obama. 

In her personal enrichment time she enjoys all things self-compassion practice, yoga, paddle boarding, hiking and backpacking, snowshoeing, traveling, and spending time with those she loves including her two French Bulldogs, Winston Churchill and Lumiere.