Gayle Weinberg has a master's degree in Guidance & Counseling, College Student Personnel Administration. For 40 years, she worked for the states of Colorado and Massachusetts in the probation department. She established groups in Cognitive Therapy and represented a program in her court called Changing Lives Through Literature for roughly 20 years. Gayle decided to write The Other Side of the Mirror shortly before she turned 70, reflecting on events that happened 15 years prior, and felt incredibly empowered to be able to share her story.