Edith Maria Steffen, PsychD is Associate Professor in Counselling Psychology at the University of Plymouth, UK, and a practising counselling psychologist. Her research focuses on sensory and quasi-sensory experiences of the deceased and continuing bonds. She is co-editor of Continuing Bonds in Bereavement: New Directions for Research and Practice. Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, directs the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, actively practices as a trainer, consultant and coach, and has published over 500 articles and 32 books, most on grieving as a meaning-making process. His most recent book is New Techniques of Grief Therapy.