Barbara Cohn Schlachet is a psychologist/psychoanalyst, who is an adjunct clinical supervisor on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She has worked in community mental health and the Family Court of New York City, while having an independent practice for more than 30 years. She has written numerous articles on issues related to women for professional conferences, scholarly journals and lay publications. Most recently, she delivered an address on Power, Gender and Sexually Transmitted Disease at an international psychoanalytic conference in Capetown, South Africa.

Working under the name of Barbara Bleier, she is also an actor, singer and playwright. She wrote and performed a solo show, Who's Your Mama?, which deals with issues of women aging in America and won a production at the 2007 "Women at Work Festival" in New York. Her play, The Last Hippie, an exploration of 1970's values in a Bush-Cheney era, was recently read at The Players Club in New York. She has been a single parent and is now a grandmother of three. She recently married actor Liam Mitchell.