Tanya J. Peterson, MS, NCC, is a Nationally Certified Counselor who writes extensively about mental health for various online and print outlets including as a regular contributor to the mental health website HealthyPlace.com, where she pens a weekly column, Anxiety-Schmanxiety, and has contributed to the popular blog The Mighty. She is also the author of four critically acclaimed, award-winning novels that deal compassionately with mental illness.