Matthew D. Skinta PhD ABPP

Matthew D. Skinta, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified clinical health psychologist and an assistant professor at Roosevelt University. He lives with his husband in Chicago, IL. Previously, he was the Director of the Sexual and Gender Identities Clinic at Palo Alto University, and had maintained a private practice in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood for over a decade. Dr. Skinta’s past research has focused on the impact of stigma and shame on health behaviors of sexual minority men, particularly as it relates to sexual health and HIV-related care. He is a peer-reviewed acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer, and is certified as both a compassion cultivation training (CCT) teacher, and as a trainer of functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP).