Tonya Lester, LCSW, is a Brooklyn-based psychotherapist and writer known for her work with relationships and communication. Her essay “Couples Therapist, Heal Thyself” was published in the Modern Love column in The New York Times. Staying Sane Inside Insanity, the blog she created for Psychology Today, has regularly reached over one million readers. She has been featured as an expert in The Guardian, Newsweek, Well+Good, HuffPost, Fatherly, and the Bumble site The Buzz. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and St. Paul, Minnesota, with her family.
