Michelle Fried­man is a psy­chi­a­trist whose life and work explore the art of lis­ten­ing and the resilience of the human spir­it. Raised on a chick­en farm in the Catskills by Holo­caust sur­vivor par­ents, she grad­u­at­ed Barnard Col­lege and NYU School of Med­i­cine. Michelle found­ed and devel­oped the pas­toral coun­sel­ing pro­gram at YCT Rab­bini­cal School and prac­tices psy­chi­a­try in Manhattan.