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Dr. Michelle Roberts is a licensed psychotherapist, author, and professor. She offers state-licensed psilocybin facilitation and maintains a private practice where she provides psychotherapy, consultation, and supervision. Michelle practices from an orientation based on Resilience-Informed Therapy, which applies research on trauma recovery to form a strength-based trauma treatment model that includes Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), somatic (body-centered) psychology with an emphasis on applied polyvagal theory, mindfulness-based therapies, and relational psychotherapy. She specializes in the treatment of relational trauma and co-occurring disorders.

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Michelle has studied relational trauma for the past 25 years, first as an award-winning journalist and now as a clinician focused on the modern epidemic of narcissistic abuse. Her seminal research illustrates the stark correlation between romantic involvement with a dark personality and a woman’s early life experiences. Michelle completed her doctorate focusing in clinical mental health counseling at the University of Missouri in St. Louis, where she also teaches psychopathology and diagnosis as adjunct faculty. She holds master’s degrees in education from UMSL and journalism from Northwestern University.

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In addition to her journalism career, Michelle served as the executive director of Bravely, a residential program for women with histories of trauma and addiction. She was a founding director of one of the nation’s first non-profits dedicated to health literacy, as well as the author of several books designed to help people manage their mental health for the Institute for Healthcare Advancement in Irvine, Calif.