Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, directs the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, a global online training institute in grief therapy and maintains an active consulting and coaching practice. Neimeyer has published over 600 journal articles and book chapters as well as 37 books, including Living Beyond Loss: Questions and Answers about Grief and Bereavement and New Techniques of Grief Therapy and serves as Editor of Death Studies. He is currently working to advance a more adequate theory of grieving as a meaning-making process.