Sean Truman grew up in Nairobi, Kenya where his father worked for the UN and his mother was an international school teacher. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Connecticut and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he worked both at the Child Study Center and in the Department of Psychiatry. In 2010 Sean co-founded Truman Group, a practice that provides remote mental health consultation and care to expatriates living abroad.