Ellen K. Toronto, PhD, PhD - Expert

About Ellen K. Toronto, PhD

Ellen Toronto is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan since 1980. She earned her bachelor's in psychology from Miami University in Ohio. She held a National Science Foundation Fellowship from 1967-1970 and completed a doctorate from the University of Michigan. She then completed a clinical internship at the Lafayette Clinic in Detroit. Dr. Toronto is a member of the American Psychological Association and a founding member and past president of the Michigan Psychoanalytical Council.

Throughout a diverse career, she has acted as a psychotherapist, parent coordinator, divorce mediator, and custody evaluator.

Ellen is the author of Family Entanglement: Unraveling the Knots and Finding Joy in the Parent-Child Journey.  Family Entanglement takes readers through the familial arc from the early years of sleep deprivation, the middle years of school and homework, the teen years of sexuality and autonomy, and the bittersweet era of grown children leaving home. Possessing an all-encompassing approach that is supremely informative while extraordinarily touching, this invaluable book provides parents with an authoritative look at all the complexities of the parenting experience.

Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women's identities. Women's unique anatomy and biology have historically contributed to their oppression in a patriarchal society. But it is the illumination of these capabilities from their own perspective that will allow women to claim and control them as their own. A Womb of Her Own explores issues such as rape, witnessing rape and preventive measures on college campuses as well as reproductive issues such as childless by choice, infertility and postpartum depression from the perspectives of the women who have experienced them.

Between being published in numerous journals and her diverse career, Ellen is a foremost authority in her field. Ellen and her husband, Robert, are the parents of four sons and have eleven grandchildren.