Theodore R. Burnes University of Southern California, USA

Theodore R. Burnes, PhD, MSEd, LPCC, is a professor of clinical education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education. He has been teaching courses and workshops in human sexuality at both the undergraduate and graduate levels for the last 21 years. He has also been teaching undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral level courses in psychology, education, professional counseling, Black studies, writing, and LGBTQ studies for 23 years. He received his master’s degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in counseling/clinical/school psychology (combined applied psychology) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously, Dr. Burnes was the director of clinical training at Antioch University Los Angeles’ Clinical Psychology Program and chair of the Clinical Psychology PhD Program at Alliant International University’s California School for Professional Psychology in Los Angeles. He also served as a staff psychologist and director of continuing education for the Los Angeles Gender Center, a mental health collective that provides psychological services, training, and workshops on issues of transgender people’s well-being and gender diversity.

Dr. Burnes has won numerous awards for his work as an educator in both didactic and applied settings. His professional interests include human sexuality, sexual expression, sexual well-being, clinical supervision, teaching pedagogy in professional psychology, mental health and well-being for LGBTQ+ people, models and practice of psychological consultation, and feminist theory applied to psychological practice. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 17 and 44). He is an author of over 50 book chapters and peer-reviewed articles. He is the coeditor of The Handbook of Consensual Non-Monogamy Affirming Mental Health Practice (with Michelle D. Vaughan, Rowman & Littlefield), Cases in Multicultural Clinical Supervision (with Jeanne E. Manese, Cognella Academic Publishing), and Teaching LGBTQ Psychology: Queering Pedagogy and Practice (with Jeanne L. Stanley, APA Books). He is also the coauthor of Essential Clinical Care for Sex Workers: A Sex-Positive Handbook for Mental Health Practitioners (with Jamila M. Dawson, North Atlantic Press).