Maria Munro-Schuster, M.A., M.S., LCPC, is the author of The Empathetic Classroom: How a Mental Health Mindset Supports Your Students—and You and a Montana therapist and educator who has always been interested in the connection between the two fields. She wrote her first master’s thesis on how student grief plays out in the college writing classroom. She previously taught middle-school English with a mental health focus, and she was selected as a Hatch North America honoree for teaching. She now works as a community therapist in Bozeman, Montana.