Sherry Young, PhD, CSAT, has worked in the behavioral health field for 20 years as a clinical liaison, providing triage, assessment, admissions referral, and advocacy for clients of licensed therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists who treat mental health and addictive disorders. She has worked for various organizations in the Behavioral Health and Addictions field and founded right fit COLLABORATIVE in 2018. Since then, she has worked collaboratively with highly vetted treatment providers who are leaders in the field and implement the most current evidence-based treatment modalities to serve the needs of her referents’ clients.
Dr. Young holds an Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Psychology and English from the Institute of Philosophic Studies, University of Dallas. She taught psychology and literature at the college level from 1986 to 1994 and directed university study programs in Rome, Italy, from 1994 to 1997. Dr. Young is a visionary, a highly skilled educator, a strategist in business development, and an advocate for recovery and personal growth. She inspires excellence and collaboration in all of her relationships.
Still, she considers her 27-plus years of sobriety her highest achievement. She believes that her sobriety and her ongoing personal work to address and heal her family’s intergenerational trauma are her greatest gifts to her four children and six grandchildren.