Sherry M. Todd, LPC, ATR, CTS, CT, BCETS, BCSCR, earned her MS from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Graduate Art Therapy. Her thesis work on loss evidenced statistical significance and she received the Paul Fink, MD Outstanding Art Therapist Award in 1994. Since graduation, her work has created several art therapy positions. Recognizing the link between juvenile crime and trauma, led her to develop/coordinate a Trauma Treatment Track in a non-profit agency and initiate changes to the mental health screening process used by a local juvenile detention center, to include ruling out PTSD.

Ms. Todd has conducted numerous evaluations for the court system and has served as an expert witness. Ms. Todd is employed as a Safe Schools Counselor with Norfolk Public Schools, a 57 school / 37,000 student urban system. Ms. Todd's use of Critical Incidence Stress Management techniques during crises facilitated the training of all the NPS Crisis Responders in CISM and led to the development of the District Wide Crisis Team. She is part of a team that presents a suicide prevention/screening program to 9th graders, the team was recognized by the Surgeon General in 2001.

Ms. Todd works with staff, parents and students to recognize trauma and its impact on learning. Ms. Todd has over a decade of crisis intervention, trauma evaluation/treatment, and risk of lethality assessment experience. She has presented at National and International Conferences. She is an approved trainer for several ICISF CISM courses, a FEMA course, and is certified to facilitate several other prevention courses. Ms. Todd has recently established an agency in her brother's name, the E. Kelly Todd Academy of Trauamtology. Ms. Todd is a Diplomate in the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and is available for consultation, training, treatment collaboration, and supervision.