Joyce Meagher graduated with a BS in Nursing from the University of Michigan. She moved throughout the United States as a military wife for 21 years, while raising 2 children, plus several dogs, cats, guinea pigs, gerbils, and birds. Joyce received her MA in Counseling from Wright State University in Ohio and began her specialization in child play therapy in 1978. She continues in her private practice in Fairfax, VA, seeing all clients of all ages, while teaching and mentoring counseling and play therapy students.