Nedra Glover Tawwab is smiling next to text that read About Me. Licensed Therapist and New York Times Bestselling Author

Meet Nedra

Licensed Therapist &
NYT Bestselling Author

About Nedra

Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW, is the author of bestsellers Drama Free and Set Boundaries, Find Peace, licensed therapist, and sought-after relationship expert. She has practiced relationship therapy for 15 years and is the founder and owner of the group therapy practice, Kaleidoscope Counseling.* Every day she helps people create healthy relationships by teaching them how to implement boundaries. Her philosophy is that a lack of boundaries and assertiveness underlie most relationship issues, and her gift is helping people create healthy relationships with themselves and others.

Nedra earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She has additional certifications in working with families and couples and in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, plus advanced training for counseling adults who've experienced childhood emotional neglect.

Nedra has appeared as an expert on The Today Show, The Breakfast Club, Good Morning America, and CBS Morning Show to name a few. Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vice, and has appeared on numerous podcasts, including The School of Greatness, We Can Do Hard Things, and Ten Percent Happier. She shares practices and reflections for mental health on her popular Instagram account. Nedra currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina with her family.

*Please note: Nedra is not accepting new clients in her private practice.

“You can be in a healthy relationship with others and take care of yourself. Healthy people want you to be able to be happy and healthy. You are not kind to yourself when you neglect your needs for the needs of others.”

Speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself.

Becoming a Therapist

Nedra Tawwab is smiling. Two books are next to her. Set Boundaries, Find Peace, and The Set Boundaries Workbook.

My path to therapy didn’t begin with a plan. It began with life.

With an ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) score of 7 out of 10, I’ve known trauma intimately. But I never saw it as the end of my story—I saw it as part of it. Trauma shapes us, yes, but we get to decide the role it plays in our lives. I chose healing. I chose inquiry. I chose growth.

Even before I was trained, people opened up to me. I asked questions that made them think more deeply. I read self-help books like they were lifelines. When I started college, I thought I wanted to be a social worker. But my understanding of the field was narrow, shaped by the idea of children being removed from homes. I switched majors to Africana Studies and Sociology, but eventually returned to social work in grad school.

At first, I thought I wanted to pursue macro-level work like lobbying or policy reform. But my first internship at a community grant agency showed me that wasn’t where I belonged. Everything changed during my second internship, at a runaway shelter, where I counseled teens and their families.

My first client sealed it for me. I knew, in that moment, that being a therapist wasn’t just a job. It was who I had always been becoming.

There’s something transformative about being heard. There’s power in saying things aloud. There’s liberation in sharing your story. Helping people unpack, heal, and reclaim their voice is my calling. And I’m deeply grateful for it.