Marissa Floro

Marissa Floro, PhD (she/her) is an adjunct faculty member in the counseling psychology department. Dr. Floro attempts to connect her research in intersections of identities, her clinical work primarily serving QTBIPoC, and her teaching under the ultimate goal of dismantling systems of oppression for the liberation of all.

• AAPA LGBTQ Division Co-Chair 2023-2026
• AAPA Association Leadership Fellows Program 2020-2022
• APA Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17) Early Career Psychologist Committee 2020-2023

• California Institute of Integral Studies, Certificate in Sex Therapy, 2024
• Loyola University of Chicago, PhD in Counseling Psychology, 2018
• Boston College, MA in Counseling Psychology, 2013
• UC Santa Barbara, BA in Classics, Renaissance Studies, Applied Pschology, 2011

• Instructor in Wellness, Stanford University
• Instructor, Stanford Hospital Dept. of Psychiatry
• Interim Co-Director of Weiland Health Initiative, Stanford University

• 2020-2021 Stanford Psychiatry YogaX Teacher Training Scholarship awardee
• 2020 APA Division 17’s Supervision & Training Section Award for Outstanding Counseling Supervisor

• Floro, M., Wong, S. & Wang, J (in progress). Contemporary Queer Asian America. ABC-CLIO/Bloomsbury Academic Inc.
• Floro, M., Nakamura, N. & Kumar, S. (in progress). Asian American LGBTQ+ Immigrants. In Estrellado, J., Felipe, L., Breen, A. & Rider, N. (Ed.) Queer Asian Americans: A practitioner’s guide for working with LGBTQ+ Asian American communities.
• Floro, M., Wong, S., Wang, J., Estrellado, J. & Rider, N. (in progress). LGBTQ+ Asian Sexualities. In Estrellado, J., Felipe, L., Breen, A. & Rider, N. (Ed.) Queer Asian Americans: A practitioner’s guide for working with LGBTQ+ Asian American communities.
• Floro, M. & Wong, S. (2022). Queer Communities. In Wilson, H & Khan, C. (Ed.) Facing Campus Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence with Courage: A Guide to Prevention, Healing, and Recovery.