Pamela Thaut has over 20 years of professional experience as a therapist treating families, couples, and individuals with a wide range of addictions and difficulties. While maintaining a private practice in the Pacific Northwest for over 16 years, she also provided critical incident debriefings and weekend retreats for grief, conflict resolution, and intimate relationships and lectured on many topics. She served on the Board of Directors for The Good Grief Center in Wenatchee, Washington, a non-profit organization offering grief services for children following the death of parent/s or loved one/s. Pamela has written various articles for magazines including Focus on the Family and The Family Therapy Networker. She is the author of children’s books Spike and Ben, A Loving Story about Angry Feelings and Spike and Ben, A Loving Story about Sad Feelings. Pamela obtained her master’s degree from Seattle University in 1982 and has done extensive post-graduate studies in family systems and psychodynamic psychotherapy. She joined Sierra Tucson as a family therapist in July 2003 and is currently the Family Program Manager, overseeing the integral family healing process.