Since 2010, she has been a staff writer for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune specializing in mental health and the arts. Seidman is a 2016-2017 fellow of the Carter Center for Mental Health Journalism and in 2016 received the national Mental Health America Media Award for her series, “The S Word: The Stigma of Schizophrenia.” Her writing has garnered awards from state and national journalism organizations, including the Gold Medal for Public Service from the Florida Society of News Editors in 2015. She is the single mother of one son with a mental health diagnosis and lives in Sarasota.