Joanne Cacciatore PhD

Dr. Joanne Cacciatore is a research professor studying traumatic grief at Arizona State University with nearly 70 published studies in top-tier journals and directs the Graduate Certificate in Trauma and Bereavement. In 1996, two years after the death of her baby daughter, Cheyenne, Dr. Cacciatore founded the MISS Foundation, an international NGO that aids families whose babies and older children die or are dying. The MISS Foundation has been serving families globally through support groups and forums, crisis and long-term counseling, and psychoeducation and professional training. In 2016 she founded Selah Carefarm, one of only three care farms in the U.S. and the first care farm in the world for traumatic grief. There, grieving families from around the world come to receive counseling, learn healthy coping, and help care for almost 40 animals (farm and domestic) rescued from torture, homelessness, and abuse. Personally, she has five children, four living, and is a meditation teacher. She practices ahimsa and has been a vegan since 1972. Her best-selling book, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the heartbreaking path of grief, won the Indies Book of the Year Award and is available on Amazon.