Richard Schwindt M.S.W., R.S.W. is a social worker in Kingston, Ontario. He works for an Employee Assistance company, and has a practice in psychotherapy and hypnotherapy with special focus on recovery for targets of workplace mobbing. Richard is a graduate of Glendon College and the Carleton University School of Social Work, member of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, the Ontario Association of Social Workers and the Canadian Society for Clinical Hypnosis (Ontario Division). Richard has worked in Toronto, Sioux Lookout and Kingston, Ontario in a variety of clinical setting for children and adults. He is author of Emotional Recovery from Workplace Mobbing, The Emotional Recovery from Workplace Mobbing Workbook, Emotional Recovery from an Affair, Emotional Recovery from Situational Anxiety, The Death in Sioux Lookout Trilogy, Dreams and Sioux Nights, and The Love Duology. Richard has twice been shortlisted for the International Three Day Novel Contest. He served ten years with OAPSW Newsmagazine, two years on the Community Editorial Board of the Kingston Whig-Standard and in 2007 he was second runner up in Comedian Idol of Kingston. He can be quite funny (ha ha) but only, his daughter warns him, when he is not trying. He has been married thirty-four years, has two adult children and two grandchildren. His website is www.richardschwindt.ca