Michelle D. Sherman, PhD, LP, ABPP, is a board-certified clinical psychologist who has dedicated her career to supporting families of adults living with a mental illness or trauma history. She is a Fellow of APA’s Society for Couple and Family Psychology, and was named their Family Psychologist of the Year in 2022. She is the Editor in Chief of the journal, Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice. Michelle has served as a therapist for over 30 years, providing individual and couples psychotherapy to adults in a VA medical center, urban primary care clinic, community clinic, inpatient psychiatric unit, and private practice. As an educator, she served as a Full Professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and the University of Minnesota Medical School, teaching and supervising trainees from numerous disciplines. She enjoys public speaking, having given over 250 workshops nationally and internationally. She has published over 75 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and over 80 book chapters and articles in other sources. In her personal life, she writes books (with her co-author mother) for family members who love someone living with a mental illness/PTSD.
