Director and Faculty

Herbert Grant, Doctoral Candidate, MA, LMFT

grant047@umn.edu

Herb Grant is a doctoral candidate in Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota. He holds a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology and a Post-Master's Certificate in Family Psychology from the University of Saint Thomas. His Bachelor's degree is in psychology from Bethel College. An enrolled member of the Tlingit and Haida tribes of Alaska, he provides supervision and consultation to the Native American Community Clinic and to the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center, and has served as director of the Division of Indian Work's family violence program. His research interests, publications and presentations include topics on ambiguous loss and the American Indian Community, historical trauma, use of attachment theory with urban American Indian youth, working with children from diverse cultures and the supervision process in marriage and family therapy. His teaching interests include family theory and conceptual frameworks, couples and families in society, multicultural studies of the family and family therapy practicum seminar supervision. He is a recipient of the MAMFT Colleagues Award, a former board member of MAMFT, a clinical member of AAMFT, and holds approved supervisor status with the Minnesota board of Marriage and Family Therapy.