She was Clinical Director at the Alternative Family Project, which served the therapeutic needs of LGBTQ families in San Francisco. She has trained extensively with Erving Polster, leader in the field of gestalt therapy and author of Everybody’s Life isworth a Novel. After her wife’s death, Cheryl immersed herself in her own multifaceted grief, surprised by frequent moments of joy.Ĭheryl is a consultant and group leader at the Free Therapy Program of the Women’s Cancer Resource Center. She received training during this period from Stephen and Ondrea Levine(Who Dies and Grieving Into Life and Death) and Richard Olney (founder of Self-Acceptance Training). In theeight years that followed, Cheryl engaged daily in the work of preparing for herdeath. During her education as a Marriage and FamilyTherapist, her first wife was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, which was at thetime a uniformly terminal illness with a six month to one year prognosis.
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