Ann HisleAnn Hisle, is a practicing psychotherapist in the Washington, DC metro area and a retired bereavement counselor from the Montgomery Hospice Society. Through her 35 years of practice, she has come to believe that both losing and finding are fundamenta to life and need one another. Her experience has shown her that "grieving well" entails holding one's feelings of loneliness and a-deep-missing on the one hand and one's feelings of appreciation for cherished memories and new possibilities on the other. Ann unfortunately never had a dog growing up and over the years has grown to love and respect the great gift they are to us, humans. She has been married to her husband John for over fifty years and all four of their children and their families have cherished dogs. Read More Read Less