Kim Schneiderman, LCSW, MSW, is a psychotherapist, workshop facilitator, former journalist, and spiritual essayist who lives and works in New York City. She counsels adults at the Psychotherapy and Spirituality Institute in the West Village and her private psychotherapy practice on the Upper West Side. She has facilitated therapeutic writing groups at the 92nd Street Y, the New York Open Center, the JCC in Manhattan, Vassar College and various other venues. She has written an advice column for the New York, Boston and Philadelphia Metro newspapers, worked as an adjunct professor for the Long Island University’s School of Social Work, and served as a Guest Lecturer for NYU’s Post-Graduate Social Work and Spiritual Care certificate program, a program she also completed. Ms. Schneiderman has written dozens of freelance articles, including cover stories, for major Jewish newspapers. Her blog, “The Novel Perspective,” is popular on the Psychology Today website. For more information, visit her website at www.stepoutofyourstory.com