Kimberly Balsam, PhD

Kimberly F. Balsam, Ph.D., is Department Chair and Professor in the Psychology Department at Palo Alto University, where she is the Director of the Center for LGBTQ Evidence-Based Applied Research. She has a 20-year history of clinical practice and has been conducting innovative research in the area of LGBTQ+ psychology since the 1990s. She is currently the Principal Investigator for the LGBTQ+ Clinical Academy, a project to develop and test a 40-hour cultural competence training for behavioral health providers.