Alyce Cleese is an American psychotherapist, author, and talk radio host.
She was born on October 28, 1944, in Frederick, Oklahoma, United States.
Alyce received her bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University in 1966. While at Oklahoma State, she served as “queen” of Willard Hall, before it was transformed from a women’s dormitory into its current role as the site of the University’s College of Education.
She continued her studies at Baylor University, earning master’s degrees in Educational Psychology and Vocational and Educational Counseling.
Alyce worked as a psychotherapist for more than three decades. Alyce is the co-author (with Brian Bates) of How to Manage Your Mother: Understanding the Most Difficult, Complicated, and Fascinating Relationship in Your Life and she sits on the Board of Trustees of the Esalen Institute.
She is on the American Board of National Theatre for London and the Board of Shakespeare Society for New York. She is a visiting senior tutor for Massachusetts General Hospital.
After divorcing Dave Eichelberger (with whom she had two sons), she met actor John Cleese in 1990 and they married in 1992. They divorced in 2008, though details of the divorce settlement only became public knowledge in August 2009. Alyce was represented by Fiona Shackleton, divorce lawyer for Prince Charles and Paul McCartney.