Karalee Kothe

Karalee earned her BS in Psychology and BA in Global and Multicultural Studies from Montana State University in 2020, her MA in Psychology and Spirituality from Columbia University in 2022, and a second MA in Psychology from the University of Colorado Denver in 2025. Her research interests include end of life experiences, spirituality, meaning in life, and the human-animal bond. 

Publications

Roe, C. A., Kothe, K., Evrard, R., Greyson, B., Mutis, M., Nahm, M., Tassell-Matamua, N., & Hines Woollacott, M. (2026). Characteristics of terminal lucidity in adults [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Frontiers in Psychology.

Tassell-Matamua, N., Kothe, K., Nahm, M., Woollacott, M., Roe, C., Greyson, B., ... & Evrard, R. (2026). Terminal lucidity in children: A contemporary case collection. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice.

Kothe, K., Tassell-Matamua, N., Woollacott, M., Nahm, M., Roe, C., Greyson, B., ... & Evrard, R. (2025). Impacts on Caregivers of Witnessing Terminal Lucidity in Children. OMEGAJournal of Death and Dying, 00302228251391552.

Roehrs, P., Fenwick, P., Greyson, B., Kellehear, A., Kothe, K., Nahm, M., ... & Woollacott, M. (2024). Terminal Lucidity in a Pediatric Oncology Clinic. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease212(1), 57-60.  

  John-Henderson, N. A., Oosterhoff, B., Kothe, K. M., Kampf, T. D., Hall, B., Johnson, L. R., LaFromboise, M. E., Malatare, M., Salois, E. M., Adams, A. K., & Carter, J. R. (2021). Loneliness and sleep in the American Indian Blackfeet Community. Sleep Health7(4), 429–435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2021.04.005