For over 20 years, Dr. Cheryl Stenzel has served children and adolescents with severe forms of mental illness, and intellectual and developmental disabilities, in residential, day treatment, and outpatient settings. Her work has included clinical and administrative direction of programs, as well as supervisory, training, and consultative roles. For many years, she supervised interns in an APA-approved Clinical Psychology Internship Program, leading Family Therapy and Play Therapy seminars, and co-leading Disorders of the Self and Supervision Skills seminars. Dr. Stenzel has been a student of meditation and mindfulness approaches since 1995, and has enjoyed welcoming newcomers to self-reflective practices during the pandemic. Dr. Stenzel obtained her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Clinical Psychology from Loyola University Chicago. She is a New York licensed psychologist and currently works with parents of children and adults residentially placed with profound and complex forms of autism, and other developmental disabilities and medical frailties, at The Center for Discovery, Monticello, NY.