Michelle Friedman is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and teacher 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 became a healer devoted to helping others find meaning and repair. A graduate of Barnard College, NYU School of Medicine, and the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center, she holds the Sharon and Steven Lieberman Chair in Pastoral Counseling at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School and is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. In addition to many articles, Michelle has written two books. She is the co-author, with Dr. Rachel Yehuda, of The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling: A Guide for All Faiths published in 2016 by Routledge and the author of a memoir, Divine Corners: In The Shadow of the Holocaust on a Catskills Chicken Farm published by Amsterdam Publishers in 2026.