Dr. Melissa Shepard
Dr. Melissa Shepard is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and mental health creator who shares compassionate explanations of ADHD, anxiety and the everyday work of caring for yourself.
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BlogOverview
- Work
- Psychiatrist, psychotherapist and mental health educator
- Education
- University of Maryland; psychiatry residency at Johns Hopkins
- Online beginnings
- Started her TikTok account in early 2020
- Breakout
- Nearly one million TikTok followers by April 2021
Mini bio
How it started.
Melissa studied psychology and art history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Working as a unit secretary and nursing assistant in a cardiac ICU helped her decide to pursue medicine. At medical school, she discovered that psychiatry offered the patient connection she wanted.
Learning to care.
She trained at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, then completed her psychiatry residency at Johns Hopkins, serving as chief resident in her fourth year. Her work there included suicide prevention research in Parkinson’s disease and an online psychiatric treatment curriculum for medical students.
Finding her audience.
After her sisters introduced her to TikTok, she started posting in early 2020. Her first video used a stethoscope to swat away mental health misconceptions. By April 2021, she had nearly a million followers. Answering viewers’ questions became a central part of her work.
Making room for being human.
Her free resources grew from mental health explainers into a more personal conversation with her audience. She brings self-compassion to topics such as ADHD and overwhelm, including stories from her own life alongside educational videos and writing.
Creditschronological, newest first
Writing
Podcast appearances
- 2024The Mom Room: Revisit: A Chat About ADHDGuest in a reissued interview
- 2021You Matter Most, episode 5Guest
Awards
Quotes
You are enough, just as you are.Dr. Melissa Shepard, official website
A message she places at the start of her website’s introduction to her work.
Trivia
- Her undergraduate double major paired psychology with art history.
- Her first TikTok used a stethoscope as a prop to challenge mental health misconceptions.
- In a September 2026 post, she described a household with four kids and four dogs.
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