Simmons Schneider has been licensed in California as a marriage and family therapist since 1988. From 1987 to 1988, Simmons Schneider 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. 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. She was profiled in a Q&A piece on
Yahoo! Voices in 2010. In December 2011, she appeared on "The Roth Show," a syndicated radio program.
Book Simmons Schneider wrote the nonfiction book
Frazzlebrain: Break Free from Anxiety, Anger, and Stress Using Advanced Discoveries in Neuropsychology, released by Central Recovery Press in 2022, the cover of which includes a caricature image of a frazzled brain. Clinical Psychologist Michael Alcee, in a
Psychology Today piece, called the book an "evocative title to get at the unique mix of stress, anger, and anxiety that plagues us all," and wrote that the "book finds refreshingly new ways of understanding and resolving these issues that have been with us since the beginning of time."
Writings Simmons Schneider is a contributing blogger for
Psychology Today. Previously she blogged for
Forbes.com and blogged for
Women in Crime Ink. She was a columnist for
Living Better Magazine, answering health-related questions. An article she wrote about media violence and aggression in children was included in the anthology
Is Media Violence a Problem? (vol. 2), released by
Cengage Learning in May 2010. A short story by Simmons Schneider 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 collection by author Sheryl Roush. == Personal life ==