Honorary President — Dr. Lata K. McGinn
Honorary President, IACBT
Dr. Lata K. McGinn
Honorary President, IACBT
Professor of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York
Dr. Lata K. McGinn is a tenured Professor of Psychology and Director of the Cognitive & Behavioral Therapies (CBT) Training Program and Clinic for Anxiety Disorders, OCD, Trauma and Depression at Yeshiva University, New York. She helped found IACBT and has served as its Honorary President since 2016.
Her clinical, training and research expertise spans the prevention and treatment of stress, anxiety disorders, trauma, PTSD, depression and OCD. She has developed a unified vulnerability model for panic disorder and social phobia, and co-authored books including Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Dr. McGinn is President of the World Confederation of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies (WCCBT), which she was instrumental in founding in 2019, and co-founder & Vice President of the Access Psychology Foundation. She continues to serve on IACBT's Board of Directors, and is a past president of both the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy (IACP) and the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies (A-CBT).