Rob Marchesani was a counselor in various schools throughout New York City for 16 years for Counseling In Schools. He now has a private practice as a psychotherapist. He has more than 30 years of experience working in the mental health field, including previous roles as co-editor of The Psychotherapy Patient Journal and Book series exploring issues of anxiety and awe, inner conflicts, stage fright and performance anxiety and other challenges that face us. He was also dean and executive director of the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He received his graduate degree from the New School in 1998 focusing his thesis on psychoanalysis and film in Hollywood to help understand our dreams, desires and our society. Rob has devoted most of his career working with and understanding adolescents and their parental, sibling and peer relationships as well as the importance of their self esteem and growth.