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Today, I’d like to introduce you to Mrs. Michelle Binion. A certified mental health clinician, CMHC, who specializes in treating complex trauma and attachment disorders. She is a survivor of physical abuse from her childhood. How Michelle became Interested in Her CareerKnowing she wanted to be a therapist since the age of 14, Michelle attended college with her senior thesis on Reactive Attachment Disorder in Youth. She wanted to find out how to heal children with this disorder. During her graduate work, a guest professor spoke about attachment. Michelle, being interested in this subject, talked with the professor after class. He suggested that she study trauma within the field of psychologyWhat is Reactive Attachment Disorder?“This is a diagnosis we see a lot in children that have been in the foster care system or have been adopted.” In these children, what clinicians see is the inability to emotionally attach, along with an angry, reactive behavior that happens with people who experience significant lack and