Harper West

Harper West, M.A., L.L.P., is a licensed psychotherapist in Clarkston, MI. She graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in journalism and worked in corporate communications, later earning a master's degree in clinical psycholoy from Michigan School of Professional Psychology.

Ms. West is the developer of Self-Acceptance Psychology, which challenges the biological model of mental disorders and offers a new paradigm that reframes emotional problems as adaptive responses to fear, trauma, shame, and lack of secure attachment. Her self-help book Pack Leader Psychology won an IBPA Ben Franklin Award for Psychology.