Sheray Roberts knows what the system looks like from the inside. She grew up exposed to the foster care system ,not the version people describe in policy meetings, but the real one, where a young person learns very quickly how it feels to be moved, managed, and talked about in rooms they're not invited into. That experience didn't break her. It built something in her that no graduate program could have. She has an instinct for recognizing when someone in front of her has been failed by the very people and institutions that were supposed to protect them, and a refusal to let that be the end of their story.

She is a proud graduate of New York University's MSW program and a seasoned clinician with over fifteen years of experience working with people living at the intersections of chronic illness, HIV, mental health, trauma, and substance use. Not one of those things neatly separated into different appointments on different days. All of them, tangled together, in the same person, on the same Tuesday. She built her career in those intersections because that is where the real work lives and because the people standing there deserve a clinician who doesn't flinch when the story gets layered.

Her background includes extensive work in substance use and opioid recovery, experience that gives her a particular clarity about what it takes to support someone when relapse is not a failure but part of the process, and when the path forward looks nothing like a straight line. She works with youth and adults at Healing Pathways Foundation using an eclectic, trauma-informed approach , drawing from multiple modalities because she learned a long time ago that the person in front of her is always more complex than any single framework can hold.

What makes Sheray different is where her empathy comes from. It is not academic. It was earned in childhood, sharpened by fifteen years of clinical work with populations most providers find too complicated to treat, and carried into every session with the quiet understanding that the person sitting across from her may have never had someone in a position of authority actually see them. She makes sure they are seen. Every time.