Dr. Coyne holds four earned academic degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Over the years, she has attended numerous workshops and conferences on the grief experience.  Dr. Coyne is the founder of The Dwelling Place, Center for Health. She has spent several decades as a teacher of Nursing and simultaneously in health counseling. Increasingly her focus shifted to studying and practicing in grief and the work-of-grief. Currently, she is no longer teaching and devotes her time to her work in grief counseling. 

          She has authored two papers on nurses’ responsibility with dying people and their families, a guideline for choosing nursing homes and co-authored a text on qualitative research in Nursing.  She has offered workshops and speeches sharing her perspective of grief and the work-of-grief.