Rod McCormick

Rod McCormick is an Indigenous health researcher and clinician. His nation is Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk). He lives on reserve in his partner’s home community of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc. His professional training and experience is in counselling psychology and in Indigenous mental health. He was a psychologist and counselling psychology professor at the University of British Columbia for 18 years and a professor of education at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) for the last 11 years. His research focuses on community capacity building in Indigenous mental health and research as well as the reclamation of traditional forms of healing. He has been a clini­cian, consultant, trainer, and researcher in Indigenous mental health for approximately 35 years. He was the lead for the BC Aboriginal Capacity and Developmental Research Environments, the BC Network Environments for Aboriginal Health Research, the Kloshe Tillicum research network, and he is currently the lead on the national/international Indigenous men­torship network Ombaashi, as well as the Knowledge Makers program and the All My Relations Research Centre at TRU.