Richard Dickens, MS, LCSW-R, is the director of client advocacy at CancerCare. Over the last 20 years he has served in various positions including clinical supervisor, blood cancers program coordinator, and program director of Men’s Cancers. Mr. Dickens was also responsible for the development of the Mind-Body-Spirit Project.
While at CancerCare, Mr. Dickens provided telephonic supervision for the Smith College End-of-Life Care Post-Graduate Certificate Program; taught in the Administration Certificate Program at Hunter College School of Social Work; and mentored in the post-graduate Zelda Foster Leadership Program at New York University. He has conducted presentations and workshops throughout North America and Australia, as well as Hong Kong, China, Ireland, and Cape Town, South Africa. In 2017, Mr. Dickens received the American Cancer Society Leadership in Oncology Social Work Award.
Mr. Dickens is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Social Work. He was also trained in Vipassana Meditation in Igatpuri, India; certified in clinical hypnosis at the Milton Erickson Foundation in Phoenix, Arizona; and in dream tending at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California.