Senior Program Director for Health Outcomes/Director, VOCA Trauma Recovery Network
Steven Proctor, PhD, is Senior Program Director for Health Outcomes at Thriving Mind South Florida. He also serves as Program Director of Thriving Mind’s Trauma Recovery Network for violent crime survivors and their families. Dr. Proctor has been involved in a number of externally-funded research and evaluation projects at Thriving Mind totaling over $8 million in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Justice (DOJ), and Florida Blue Foundation. He holds a community-based faculty appointment at the rank of Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. He is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in addiction treatment, prevention, and recovery and has published extensively in this area. He is an Inaugural Fellow of Yale University’s NIDA-supported Innovation to Impact entrepreneurship fellowship program for addiction researchers. Dr. Proctor earned his PhD in clinical psychology from Louisiana State University. He completed his predoctoral clinical internship at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, California, and his postdoctoral fellowship at the VA Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, where he received specialized training in the Addictive Disorders Treatment Program.