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Ivory A. Toldson - Clinical Director

Dr. Ivory Lee Toldson has an undergraduate degree from Southern University Baton Rouge; a master's degree in educational psychology from Butler University and a doctorate degree in counseling psychology and guidance services from Ball State University. He completed a clinical internship at the Delaware County Child Guidance Clinic in Muncie, Indiana, and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at The Ohio State University. He holds a secondary teaching certificate, as well as certification in school psychology, state licensure in professional psychology in Louisiana and Pennsylvania, and is listed in the National Register for Health Service Providers in Psychology. His biography is published in the book, Successful African-American Males: Teachers Make a Difference, Authored by Mildred Reese, and published by Educational Resources Press, 1998. Other highlights of his career include the following:

Served as contributing editor, along with other scholars of prominence, to the publication Community of Caring (a teenage pregnancy curriculum), authored by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and published by the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation;
Authored/coauthored two books; Stolen Innocence (Preventing, healing, and recovering from child molestation), and the pioneering work, Roots of soul: The psychology of black expressiveness, a Doubleday publication; one monograph, two book chapters and twenty scholarly articles in refereed journals;
Beneficent to Rockefeller Foundation funded education travel to Lagos and Benin States, Nigeria; Kingston, Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, Jamaica; Port of Prince, Haiti; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Port of Spain, Trinidad; and Bridgetown, Barbados;
Presented numerous papers at a professional societies and participated in countless seminars, symposia, and conference sessions;
Recipient of numerous academic and services awards, including “The Research Award” and the “International Counseling Award,” presented by the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development.
Provides forensic psychology expert testimony in a plethora of criminal and civil cases.

Provides medical expert testimony for federal hearings and appeals cases related to psychiatric disabilities.

Ivory A. Toldson - Clinical Director

Dr. Toldson is now an assistant professor in the Psychology Department at Southern University, the clinical director of the Manhood Training Village (a residential group home for adolescent males who are in state custody), and the 2003 US. Department of Justice, DuBois Fellow. Prior to joining the Southern University family, Dr. Toldson was a correctional and forensic psychology trainee with the U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons. His duties included conducting forensic evaluations, dangerousness and suicide risk assessment and individual and group therapy. Dr. Toldson has been invited to present his research on psychopaths at regional conferences in New Orleans and Atlanta, and international conferences in Scotland and Sweden. Today, Dr. Toldson is an active academic with published articles in The Journal of Black Psychology, The Journal of African American Men, Key Words in Multicultural Interventions, Rhapsody: Creative Condensation for Literary & Visual Arts, and the New African Journal. Dr. Toldson is a proud member of the American Psychological Association (APA), Association of Black Psychologist (ABPsi), and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.