Laurie McCubbin, PhD

Dr. Laurie “Lali” McCubbin is a professor and chair at the University of Kentucky in the Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology and an Indigenous/multiracial scholar (Native Hawaiian or Kanaka 'Ōiwi/Japanese/white). Her research interests and expertise include resilience, recovery, and well-being among BIPOC folx, cultural identity development, decolonization in psychology training programs and therapy, and stress and cultural factors related to trauma, recovery, and resistance at the individual, family, and community levels.

She is currently the executive director of the Resilience, Adaptation and Well-Being Project. She is a board member of the Board of Educational Affairs for the American Psychological Association. She has served as the past Chair for the Children, Youth, and Families committee for the American Psychological Association, and was the past president of the Council of Counseling Psychology Training Programs (CCPTP). She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Training and Education in Professional Psychology journal and is an editorial member for the Journal of Counseling Psychology, Asian American Journal of Psychology, as well as the The Counseling Psychologist. She is also a licensed psychologist in the state of Kentucky and has provided treatment, supervision, and training as part of multidisciplinary health teams in a variety of settings.