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WILLIAM D. PARHAM, PH.D., ABPP, Professor, Director of the School of Education Center for Trauma Informed Education at Loyola Marymount University. The CTIE has received national recognition for Excellence in Mental Health and Wellbeing, along with LMU, from Insights into Academia: The Leader in Advancing Best Practices in Higher Education Excellence and Belonging. 

Dr. Parham is a licensed psychologist, Board Certified in Counseling Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology and Past-President of the Society of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He is recognized as a Fellow in Divisions 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology), 45 (Society for the Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race) and 47 (Exercise and Sport Psychology). 

Dr. Parham is a member of the California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Mental Wellbeing and recognized by the International Society of Sport Psychology Registry as a member of the Practitioner Directory. He served as the inaugural Director of the Mental Health and Wellness Program of the National Basketball Players Association. He is a past member of both the Mental Health and Wellness Task Force of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and of the California Science Foundation Science of Sport Advisory Committee.

For most of his professional career, Dr. Parham has focused on working with athletes across organizations (e.g., National Basketball Players Association; National Basketball Association, National Football League; Major League Baseball; USOPC; United States Tennis Association; Major League Soccer) across levels (e.g., professional, elite, amateur, collegiate) and across sports (e.g., basketball, football, gymnastics, softball, baseball, track and field, tennis, golf, volleyball). He also has worked with performance artists in drama, theatre and music. Much of his current work focuses on trauma, an unfortunate personal experience of far too many athletes, artists and everyday citizens.

Dr. Parham’s emphasis on personal empowerment, discovering and cultivating innate talents and looking for hidden opportunities in every situation are trademark foci. He is widely known through his scholarship, as well as conversations with domestic and international audiences for his work on the interplay between sport psychology, diversity, intersectionality, trauma, and health psychology as these life experiences fuel discovery of excellence in human performance.

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