Dr. Wendy Lichtenthal

Wendy Lichtenthal is a clinical psychologist and researcher specializing in bereavement and prolonged grief. She directs a center focused on prolonged grief research and care, and previously led bereavement research within psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Her work has developed and tested Meaning-Centered Grief Therapy for parents who have lost a child to cancer, and she has helped shape how prolonged grief disorder is understood and treated clinically.