Martin La Roche, PhD

Martin La Roche, PhD, has been Director of Mental Health Training at Boston Children’s Hospital at Martha Eliot (which is the oldest standing community health center in the United States) for the last twenty-eight years, where he treats an inner city and culturally diverse community and trains clinicians (doctoral level psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists). In addition, La Roche is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital (one of a handful of ethnic minorities/psychologists to have ever reached this academic rank at the Harvard Medical) and specializes in the development of culturally competent psychotherapeutic services and has been the Principal Investigator on several research projects in which he is refining these strategies. La Roche has over 100 publications/presentations and two books “Cultural Psychotherapy: Theory, Methods and Practice“ and "Towards a Global and Cultural Psychotherapy." He has received many research/academic awards from numerous community, academic and state institutions. He also co-chaired the Committee of Ethnic Minority Affairs at the Massachusetts for many years. In addition, he leads the ALANA group at the Harvard Medical School.