Michael Pipich LMFT holds a Master of Science degree in clinical/community psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from Loyola Marymount University. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist (Colorado license MFT744), and he has treated a wide range of mental disorders and relationship problems in adults and adolescents for more than 30 years.

Michael is also a national speaker on bipolar disorder. His new book, Owning Bipolar: How Patients and Families Can Take Control of Bipolar Disorder (Citadel Press), is due for release in 2018. Michael is also known as an expert in many legal cases involving psychological treatment and the law, and has taught several graduate-level psychology courses. He was selected as a collaborating investigator by the American Psychiatric Association, performing clinical field trials for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of how to write dialogue between two characters in an essay Mental Disorders (DSM-5).