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Society Presidents

President: Sarah R. Kamens, PhD

Sarah Kamens Sarah R. Kamens, PhD is a clinical psychologist and interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses on the social and scientific conceptualization of mental health challenges. She holds an MA in communication from the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee. After receiving her MA and PhD in clinical psychology from Fordham University, she completed predoctoral clinical training at the Yale University School of Medicine with a focus on adult community mental health. Her postdoctoral clinical training took place at the Yale Specialized Treatment Early in Psychosis program. Dr. Kamens spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow and visiting professor at Wesleyan University, and three years as an assistant professor of psychology at the SUNY College at Old Westbury. She is the current editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology (Sage Publications). Her book, Reconceptualizing Schizophrenia: The Phenomenology of Urhomelessness (2023), was published in the ISPS book series by Routledge.

President-elect: Zenobia Morrill, PhD

Zenobia Morrill, PhD, headshot Zenobia Morrill, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and Core Faculty Member of the Clinical Psychology Department at William James College where she also is the Associate Director of the Center for Psychological Science. She is a licensed practicing psychologist and a Fellow of the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics at Boston College.

Her research is broadly focused on psychotherapy process, qualitative inquiry, and critical and liberation psychologies. She formerly served as a Research Officer for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health where she advocated for a rights-based approach to global mental health and contributed to UN statements, such as the World Mental Health Day statement on suicide prevention (2019). Her recent publications put forward a model for Critical-Liberation Psychotherapy and an international set of recommendations for broadening the evidence used to support clinical practice guidelines within a task force of qualitative researchers, both published in American Psychologist. Zenobia is interested in the cultural politics of mental health and often takes up conceptual and ethical questions in psychology and at the intersection of several schools of thought. From 2021 to 2023, she was a fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) and has received distinguished early career awards from Divisions 5 (Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, 2026); 24 (Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 2023); and 32 (Society for Humanistic Psychology, 2026) of APA.

In addition to the psychological humanities, the core values of humanistic psychology animate much of Zenobia’s work and clinical sensibilities. She is oriented toward resisting dehumanization and the flattening of meaning in our lives, believing that humanistic psychology is well-equipped to rethink and realize a more just psychology now. Currently, Zenobia is an Editorial Board member of the Psychology and the Other Book Series and The Humanistic Psychologist. She is the Senior Clinical Theory & Practice Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, where she has also edited 5+ special issues on topics of transformative praxis and liberation in clinical practice. Zenobia was honored to serve on the Scientific Committee of the 2026 Fourth World Congress of Existential Therapy (WCET) and to have authored or coauthored three chapters across the newly released APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology and Evidence-Based Foundations of Existential-Humanistic Therapy.

Past-president: Derrick D. Sebree Jr., PsyD

Derrick Sebree Derrick D. Sebree Jr., PsyD, is an American Descendant of Slavery (ADOS), a core faculty member of the MA program, and MA program director at the Michigan School of Psychology (MSP). In 2016, Derrick graduated with his doctorate in clinical psychology from MSP, also earning a MECCA certificate during his clinical placement at Michigan State University CAPS. He currently offers clinical services in the Ann Arbor area, working with a variety of populations with a focus on young college students and adults. Derrick also has coordinated with numerous social justice organizations around food security, racial equity, reparative justice, mental health equity, and other environmental justice issues within the Black American community.

In his work as a therapist, an educator, and mentor, Derrick emphasizes community-oriented social justice praxis informed by Black Existentialist, liberatory psychologies and counseling; multicultural identity theory; and ecopsychology/ecotherapy and climate psychology. Derrick values the philosophy of servant leadership and giving back from the value ethic of generational equity. He has been an active member of the Society for Humanistic Psychology, APA Division 32, having begun as a student ambassador in 2013 and having served (either currently or previously) as a member-at-large; membership chair; co-chair of the Justice, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee; and advocacy liaison to APA’s Advocacy Office. Further, Derrick is a current member of the board for the Michigan Psychological Association and of APA’s Climate Advisory Board. He also extensively consults with various national and regional organizations, he is identified on APA’s Media Advisory List as an expert in environmental justice issues, and he provides psychological expertise on climate change to various organizations and brands.

Derrick’s published works include co-authored chapters in The Evidence-Based Foundations of Existential–Humanistic Therapy, the APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology, and Clinical Psychology Responses to the Climate Crisis. He is an editorial board member for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, an ad hoc reviewer for The Humanistic Psychologist, and a reviewer for several environmental and ecopsychology-focused journals.

Presidents of Division 32

  • 1971-72 Carmi Harari (Acting)
  • 1972-73 Carmi Harari
  • 1973-74 Everett Shostrom
  • 1974-75 David Bakan
  • 1975-76 Stanley Graham and Myron Arons
  • 1976-77 Gloria Gottsegen
  • 1977-78 Barton Knapp
  • 1978-79 Nora Weckler
  • 1979-80 Virginia Sexton
  • 1980-81 Stanley Krippner
  • 1981-82 David Morgenstern
  • 1982-83 John Tisdale
  • 1983-84 Robert Harper
  • 1984-85 M. Brewster Smith
  • 1985-86 Alvin Mahrer
  • 1986-87 Harold Greenwald
  • 1987-88 Amedeo Giorgi
  • 1988-89 Mary Jo Meadow
  • 1989-90 Frank X. Barron
  • 1990-91 E. Mark Stern
  • 1991-92 Fred Massarik
  • 1992-93 P. Erik Craig
  • 1993-94 Ruth Heber
  • 1994-95 Frederick J. Wertz
  • 1995-96 George Howard
  • 1996-97 Ilene Serlin
  • 1997-98 Christopher Aanstoos
  • 1998-99 David Elkins
  • 1999-00 Eleanor Criswell
  • 2000-01 Constance Fischer
  • 2001-02 Larry M. Leitner
  • 2002-03 Franz R. Epting
  • 2003-04 Art Lyons
  • 2004-05 Scott Churchill
  • 2005-06 David Rennie
  • 2006-07 David Cain
  • 2007-08 Frank Farley
  • 2008-09 Maureen O’Hara
  • 2009-10 Sara K. Bridges
  • 2010-11 Louise Sundararajan
  • 2011-12 David N. Elkins
  • 2012-13 Louis Hoffman
  • 2013-14 Brent Dean Robbins
  • 2014-15 V. Krishna Kumar
  • 2015-16 Kirk J. Schneider
  • 2016-17 Shawn Rubin
  • 2017-18 Donna Rockwell
  • 2018-19 Nathaniel Granger, Jr.
  • 2019-20 Drake Spaeth
  • 2020-21 Jonathan D. Raskin
  • 2021-22 Todd DuBose
  • 2022-23 Gina Belton
  • 2023-24 Andrew Bland
  • 2024-25 Roxanne Christensen
  • 2025-26 Derrick Sebree, Jr.
  • 2026-27 Sarah Kamens
Last updated: October 2025Date created: 2011

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