Martin LaRoche

Martin J. La Roche, Ph.D. has been Director of Psychology Training at the Martha Eliot Health Center (which is the oldest community health center in the country) since 1996. He is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at the Harvard Medical School at the Boston Children’s Hospital at the Martha Eliot Health Center and specializes in the development of culturally competent psycho therapeutic services. Dr La Roche has over 50 peer reviewed publications/presentations on the area and is increasingly presenting around the country. Dr. La Roche has been Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on several research projects in which he is refining these intervention psychotherapeutic strategies.

His new book entitled “Cultural Psychotherapy: Theory, Methods, and Practice” has been published by Sage.

Dr. La Roche has also a practice in Cambridge where he has worked since 1997.

Dr. La Roche was Co-Chair of the Committee of Ethnic Minority Affairs at the Massachusetts Psychological Association for seven years and Board member of that institution for three years. In addition, he has received several research/academic awards such as the Harvard Bridge Award, The Milton Award and was Selected Outstanding Committee Chairperson of the Year by the Massachusetts Psychological Association.