Nisha Zenoff's practice as a psychotherapist, grief counselor and teacher did not prepare her for the sudden death of her 17-year-old son. Her book, THE UNSPEAKABLE LOSS: How Do You Live After A Child Dies?, combines her personal experience with many other bereaved parents, grandparents, and siblings she counseled and interviewed.

Educated at Brandeis University, the University of Utah, and Columbia University, she received her Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology from Sofia University and is a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.

As the author of published articles, including "Mother's Grief," featured in The Journal of Process Oriented Psychology and in the newsletter of Compassionate Friends, Nisha has become an expert on parental grief and been interviewed on "A. M. San Francisco" (KGO-TV) and "Seeing Beyond" (KEST-AM San Francisco).

Dr. Zenoff’s life and work have been influenced by the presence and writings of master teachers, including: Angeles Arrien, Sylvia Boorstein, Pëma Chodron, Byron Katie, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Thich Nhat Hanh, Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks, Jack Kornfield, Abraham Maslow, Amy and Arny Mindell, Mary Whitehouse, Master Ming Tong, and her family and friends who continue to be her teachers.

Nisha lives in Marin County in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and her yellow lab Pumpkin. She is blessed to have 11 grandchildren.