Sessions
The Shadow Pandemic: COVID-19 and the Mental Health of Those of Us in the Helping Professions
8:10 AM - 8:30 AM Wed
Michelle Roberts is the founder and clinical director of the Relational Trauma Recovery Center, with offices in St. Louis, Mo., and Portland, Ore., where she practices EMDR, attachment- focused therapy, and other evidence-based trauma models. She is a nationally certified counselor licensed in Missouri and Oregon and a member of the EMDR Disaster Network.
Roberts currently holds a doctorate in clinical mental health counseling at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Prior to her clinical work, Roberts was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist covering mental health and, later, a founding director of Health Literacy Media. Her work has been recognized by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the National Mental Health Association, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She served as a member
of the board of the REACH Institute in New York, N.Y. and as a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow at the Carter Center in Atlanta. Roberts is the author of the Institute for Healthcare Advancement’s publication: “How to manage your Anxiety during COVID-19.”