Sherry Amatenstein, LCSW, is a New York City-based therapist and author of The Q&A Dating Book, Love Lessons from Bad Breakups, and The Complete Marriage Counselor.

She is editor of the anthology How Does That Make You Feel? Confessions From Both Sides of the Therapy Couch and contributed to the anthology Shades of Blue: Writers on Depression, Suicide, and Feeling Blue. A former editor at Hearst and ivillage.com, she is an adjunct writing professor at New York University and has freelanced for numerous publications, including Redbook, Brides, qz.com, The Forward, New York Observer and vox.com.

Amatenstein runs writing seminars throughout the United States and has offered relationship advice on Today, Early Show, HuffPost Live, Inside Edition and NPR.