Tanya Harter Pierce, M.A., MFCC, has a master's degree in clinical psychology and is retired from her counseling practice as a Marriage, Family, and Child Counselor. When one of her family members was diagnosed with cancer that was considered incurable by conventional medicine, she found herself searching for alternative options. She also found that this information wasn't easy to understand or to sort through quickly, so she organized what she learned from her research into this easy-to-read guide.