The JED Center

Catherine D. Wilcox

Katy Wilcox has been an ACPE Certified Educator since 2013. This is a second career for Katy. She earned a BS in Landscape Architecture from Rutgers University for her first career path.

She later earned a Master of Divinity from Yale University in 2002. She was ordained in the UCC in 2004. She completed an ACPE CPE extended unit followed by a residency at Hartford Hospital, a level I trauma hospital serving an urban population. She continued her education at UConn Health in its ACPE Certified Educator CPE program while working as staff chaplain. Katy has worked at UConn Health for 13 years. Currently she serves as part-time chaplain at UConn Health and adjunct faculty at the UConn School of Medicine.

Katy created and began developing The JED Center for Spiritual Care and Education in 2019. Susan S. Liguori joined the endeavor as partner in 2020. Katy volunteers with the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education as Accreditation Commissioner for the last three years. Katy is passionate about the transformative learning process that is available in ACPE CPE, the relevance of spiritual care in health care and alternative settings, and ways to further integrate spiritual care in the healing environment.

Susan S. Liguori

Susan S. Liguori received her Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and a Master of Business Administration degree from University of Wisconsin. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School.  Liguori is a Board Certified Chaplain by the National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC), and a CPE Certified Educator by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE).

Liguori has served as a chaplain in long-term-care facilities and hospitals in Connecticut (CT).  Within the Yale-New Haven Health System, she held positions as CPE supervisor (Greenwich Hospital), and Coordinator of CPE (Bridgeport Hospital).  Having launched a contract supervisory practice in Spring 2015, she has been privileged to lead a chaplain residency unit for Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, chaplain intern programs for The Chaplaincy Center in Providence, RI, several chaplain residencies for Catholic Health Services of Long Island, NY and most recently, a chaplain residency unit for Westchester Medical Center, NY.

Currently, Liguori serves on the NACC Certification Commission and ACPE Accreditation committees. She is involved in a task force for the Order of Malta developing a Sacred Story Legacy project for use with Palliative Care and Hospice patients.  She is earning a certificate in Spiritual Direction from the Ignatian Center for Spirituality at Fairfield University.

Liguori is passionate about pastoral care and helping others hone their spiritual caregiving skills. In her supervisory practice, Liguori is guided by a theology of grace.  Her educational theory emphasizes the shared wisdom of the group, and a “power with” supervisory stance.  Object-relations personality theory along with family system theory form the foundation of her supervisory approach, with an emphasis on trust and acceptance of self and others.

Chaplain Liguori is a Roman Catholic lay woman, married, with three adult children. Originally from the Finger Lakes region of New York, she and her husband now live in CT.  Liguori is a published author and workshop presenter.  She enjoys walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, skiing, and international travel.