Gina Simmons

Gina Simmons is a marriage and family counselor, a writer and educator from San Diego, California, specializing in anger management.

Gina Simmons
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSan Diego State University
United States International University
OccupationMarriage and family counselor
Writer, educator
Spouse(s)Jay Schneider
WebsiteManage Anger Daily

Early life and education

Simmons received a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1983 from San Diego State University. In 1991, she received a doctorate degree in psychology from United States International University.

Career

She has been licensed in California as a marriage and family therapist since 1988. From 1987 to 1988, Simmons was licensed in California as a marriage and family therapist intern. She is co-founder and co-director of Schneider Family Services with her husband, Jay Schneider, a licensed clinical social worker.

She was an adjunct instructor in the psychology department at San Diego City College.[1]

She has been quoted in articles about anger management, including in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune.[2][3][4][5] She was profiled in a Q&A piece on Yahoo! Voices in 2010.[6] In December 2011, she appeared on "The Roth Show," a syndicated radio program.[7]

Writing

She wrote blogs for Forbes.com[8] and blogged for Women in Crime Ink. She was a columnist for Living Better Magazine, answering health-related questions.[9]

An article she wrote about media violence and aggression in children was included in the book Is Media Violence a Problem? (vol. 2), released by Cengage Learning in May 2010.[10] Also, a short story by Simmons is included in the book Heart of a Military Woman: Stories and Tributes to Those Who Serve Our Country, released in 2009 in the Heart Book Series by author Sheryl Roush.[11][12]

Personal life

In 1972 as a teenager, Simmons sang on the rock musical album An Eye In Each Head, performing in the live production of the same name.[13] In 1994, she sang lead on the album Help The People by Paul Swigart, and background vocals in seven of the songs.[14][15]

gollark: ++delete the dog
gollark: A vaguely convincing argument I heard about the humans-liking-punishment thing is that it effectively works as a species-wide precommitment to punish people for doing bad things, which discourages people from doing those bad things in advance.
gollark: I mean, the only real arguments I can see for it:- humans just like punishing people if they do bad things (for evolutionary psychology reasons?)- a deterrent, but that only works if... people actually believe it as a serious threat
gollark: Also, it's pretty pointless.
gollark: ...

References
  1. "Learn-At-Lunch: M.A.D. For Teens". adminrecords.ucsd.edu.
  2. Sauer, Mark (September 30, 2004). "Foul territory: Heckling can go from good-natured to nasty, leaving society to decide where to draw the line". San Diego Union-Tribune.
  3. Sullivan, Tim (May 29, 2004). "Does Nevin always have to learn the hard way?". San Diego Union Tribune.
  4. Lewin, Tamar (1 July 2001). "Class Time and Not Jail Time For Anger, but Does It Work? (page 4)". The New York Times.
  5. "CAREERS: Madder Than Ever". Los Angeles Times. 2 November 1998.
  6. "Yahoo! Voices, "Dealing with Difficult Employees: An Interview with Dr. Gina Simmons," Aug 17, 2010". Yahoo. Archived from the original on 2014-07-29.
  7. "The Ladies of Forbes, Crime, She Writes". ImaginePublicity. 5 December 2011.
  8. "Yahoo! News, "Introducing Crime Expert Bloggers," October 24, 2011".
  9. "Living Better Magazine site".
  10. "Is Media Violence a Problem?, "Media Violence Causes Aggression in Children"" (PDF). Gale: Cengage Learning. May 2010.
  11. "Heart of a Military Woman Book Contributors Announced".
  12. Amazon, Heart of a Military Woman, Sparkle Press, November 11, 2009
  13. http://adams-entertainment.com/gallery.htm Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine Adams Entertainment, Gallery of albums
  14. CD Universe, Help The People album track listing
  15. "Fire Prince, Help The People tracks".
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