Michele Coleman
Michele Coleman, Ph.D, LMFT Dr. Michele Coleman has worked in the field of foster care and adoption all her life, beginning with personal childhood experiences with informal foster care and formal adoption. These early experiences prepared her for work as a therapist in the field of attachment. As an adult, she has worked full-time as a business manager and has regularly volunteered with troubled youths who were living in group homes. As an adult, she adopted two sisters with emotional needs from the foster care system in Virginia, and then 14 years later she and her partner adopted a son with emotional needs from New Mexico. Her thesis was titled A Chance for Change: The Role of Trust in Foster Care, and involved in-depth research on ways to help children who have been removed from their home — on ways to help them learn to heal, grow, and adapt to a new family. A graduate of Dr. Dan Siegel’s Interpersonal Neurobiology certification program, Dr. Coleman used this knowledge to develop the model of treatment used for healing attachment issues at Attachment Healing Center, Healing in Resonance. Michele received her PhD in Counselor Education from the University of New Mexico in 2016.