Melanie Wilcox

Melanie M. Wilcox, Ph.D., ABPP, is a licensed psychologist and board certified in counseling psychology. She is a psychologist in private practice as well as a full-time faculty member conducting research as well as teaching and supervising doctors and master's students. She has over ten years of experience in graduate education, training, and clinical supervision. She is currently Past-President of Division 17, the Society of Counseling Psychology, and is also a Chair of the APA Committee on Socioeconomic Status; a former Chair of the APA Board of Educational Affairs; and, an Associate Editor with the Journal of Counseling Psychology and Training and Education in Professional Psychology. Her research focuses on psychotherapy training and clinical supervision; culturally and structurally responsive psychotherapy; racial and socioeconomic inequity in higher education; and racial and social justice more broadly. She has authored or co-authored over 45 peer-reviewed articles, given over 200 presentations (including peer-reviewed and continuing education workshops), and has co-authored numerous APA policy statements and draft guidelines. Dr. Wilcox has been nationally recognized for her scholarship, leadership, teaching, and advocacy, earning multiple awards including recently the 2025 The Counseling Psychologist Outstanding Article award, the 2024 Karl F. Heiser APA Presidential Award for Advocacy, the 2024 Training and Education in Professional Psychology Outstanding Contribution Award, and 2022 Division 17 Fitz & Linn Kuder Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Counseling Psychology. Clinically, she specializes in trauma and loss, culturally and structurally responsive approaches to psychotherapy and assessment, LGBTQ+-affirming care, and the assessment and treatment of addiction.