Lori Got­tlieb is a psy­chother­a­pist and New York Times best­selling author who writes The Atlantic​’s week­ly ​“Dear Ther­a­pist” advice col­umn. A con­tribut­ing edi­tor for The Atlantic, she also writes for The New York Times, and appears as a fre­quent expert on rela­tion­ships, par­ent­ing, and hot-but­ton men­tal health top­ics in media such as The Today Show, Good Morn­ing Amer­i­ca, CBS This Morn­ing, CNN, and NPR. Her most recent book Maybe You Should Talk to Some­one is in devel­op­ment for a tele­vi­sion series at ABC.