Gerti Schoen is a psychoanalyst and couple counselor in private practice in New York City and New Jersey. She has gone through ten years of Zen training at various Buddhist centers in the U.S. and her native country Germany, where she initially worked as a professional print and radio journalist. She came to the U.S. in 1998 and became a psychotherapist. She is the author of The Gentle Self, a self-help book about depression and anxiety, and a blog of the same name at PsychCentral.com.