Overview
Dr. Tracy Robinson-Wood is professor of Applied Psychology at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. She and her Intersectionality research team have examined policing and civilians across race, ethnicity, age, sexuality, and gender; microaggressions among highly educated BIPOC and LGBTQ-identified White people, and racial socialization messages among multiracial millennials.
Her book, Sister Resisters: Mentoring Black Women in College, co-authored with Dr. Janie V. Ward, was published in 2022. The 6th edition of Tracy ‘s work, The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity and Gender: Multiple Identities in Counseling will be published in 2027. Tracy is a licensed clinician in MA and NH. She lives in New Hampshire with her family and pet conure.
Areas of Expertise
Primary: 1. Counseling Psychology 2. Intersectionality 3. Delivering trauma and narrative-based clinical interventions to the world’s people that unearth, disrupt, and replace introjections from childhood
Additional: Training counselors to know themselves, identify and shrink unconscious bias to deliver competent, meaningful, and effective therapeutic services that honor the world’s people and reduce suffering.
Keywords: Care for clinicians, teachers, and researchers who provide care to the overlooked and expendable across multiple identities
Selected Publications
Robinson-Wood, T. L. (Anticipated 2027). The convergence of race, ethnicity, and gender: Multiple identities in counseling, 6th Edition. CA: Sage Publications.
Robinson-Wood, T. L. (Anticipated 2026). Race, culture, ethnicity, and the group of seven: Diversity and social justice in counseling, psychology, and psychotherapy: A Case Study Approach (193-206). Drs. Anusha Kassan and Roy Moodley (Eds). Cognella Academic Publishing, San Diego.
Robinson-Wood, T. L. (2025). Race in Intercultural Relationships (343-355). International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health. Drs. Shivon Raghunandan, Roy Moodley, and Kelley Kenney (Eds). Routledge, New York.
Wilson, M., Rhee, J., Haughton, N., Maynard, P., & Robinson-Wood, T. (2024). A Child-Parent Psychotherapy Case Vignette with Discussion From an Antiracist Perspective, Journal of Systemic Therapies, 42 (4). https://doi.org/10.1521/jsyt.2023.42.4.27
Ward, J. V., & Robinson-Wood, T. L. (2022). Sister Resisters: Mentoring Black college women on campus. Harvard Education Press. Cambridge, MA.
Courses Taught
- Psychopathology
- Substance Use
- Advanced Multicultural Psychology
- Introduction to Counseling
