Michael J. Bradley grew up in Philadelphia where he attended parochial schools before entering LaSalle College on a military scholarship. After briefly serving as an officer in the U.S. Army, he entered law school, supporting himself with a temporary job counseling troubled adolescents in an inner-city Philadelphia high school. To his amazement, he developed a passionate interest in his new sideline job and switched to graduate studies in psychology, ultimately earning a doctorate from Temple University.
Since then, Dr. Bradley has worked with children, adolescents, and their families in treatment settings ranging from jails, to social service agencies, to private practice. His professional experience with children encompasses virtually every aspect of youth work.
Dr. Bradley and his wife, Cynthia, have a biological son, Ross. They also adopted a baby girl, Sarah, who was born cocaine addicted and then nearly starved to death in a neglectful.