Michelle Mancao-Taylor has been a social worker for the past 25 years in various settings, mostly in the medical field both inpatient and in the community helping individuals and families in crisis. She has developed an integrative perspective in helping people through chronic mental illness, diagnoses of HIV/AIDS, substance abuse addiction, trauma, death and dying, domestic violence, premature birth, depression, postpartum depression, anxiety and women’s issues. She understands that to get through to the root of a problem, one has to address issues of the body, mind and spirit as well as be culturally and ethnically sensitive.