TouchPoints Counseling & Consulting - Charmayne (Charly) Alegria, M.A., LCPC
: I am an Idaho native and currently reside in Meridian. I was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia in 1991 at the age of 20 and subsequently underwent total body irradiation, chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Within a few months of my bone marrow transplant, I married my high school sweetheart while still tethered to an IV pole. Through assisted reproduction and ovum donation, my husband and I became parents in 2002 and again in 2008, with two miscarriages in between. I received my Masters in Counseling from Boise State University in 2003 and began counseling primarily children and adolescents in a local mental health agency, where I stayed for two years before moving on to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, where I worked as the Patient Services Manager for three years before deciding to go into private practice. I currently continue to serve on the Idaho Cancer Coalition and I am a member of the American Counseling Association, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, RESOLVE, and the American Psychosocial Oncology Society.
I am an Idaho native and currently reside in Meridian. I was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia in 1991 at the age of 20 and subsequently underwent total body irradiation, chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Within a few months of my bone marrow transplant, I married my high school sweetheart while still tethered to an IV pole. Through assisted reproduction and ovum donation, my husband and I became parents in 2002 and again in 2008, with two miscarriages in between.

I received my Masters in Counseling from Boise State University in 2003 and began counseling primarily children and adolescents in a local mental health agency, where I stayed for two years before moving on to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, where I worked as the Patient Services Manager for three years before deciding to go into private practice. I currently continue to serve on the Idaho Cancer Coalition and I am a member of the American Counseling Association, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, RESOLVE, and the American Psychosocial Oncology Society.