Joanne Cacciatore

Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, author of Animal Sutras’ foreword, is the founder of the MISS Foundation and is currently a professor at Arizona State University. Her area of expertise is traumatic death, specifically child death, and she is an acclimed public speaker on this topic. Dr. Cacciatore also specializes in counseling people affected by traumatic death and is a Diplomate in the American Psychotherapy Association. Her therapeutic interventions are presence-and-mindfulness-based, including narrative, dialectical, and logo therapies, in addition to trauma-focused therapies. Dr. Cacciatore is the author of the books Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief, and her memoir of losing her daughter, Dear Cheyenne: A Journey into Grief, which is considered the leading book for bereaved parents, which is now in its sixth edition.