Bryan Ovidio Rojas-Arauz
Clinical Assistant Professor
Professional Biography
Dr. Bryan O. Rojas-Araúz is a bilingual, bicultural Afroindigenous immigrant of Costa Rican and Panamanian descent. He is a psychologist, educator, and scholar-activist whose work challenges dominant narratives in mental health. His clinical, teaching, and research work centers social justice, trauma, immigration, culturally responsiveness, and decolonial healing, and the social, political, and historical conditions that shape individual and collective wellbeing.
He is the founder of In Lak’ech Counseling, Education, & Consulting, a Clinical Assistant Professor in the International Disaster Psychology program at the University of Denver, and a co-author of the Workbook for Social Action for Counselors, Psychologists, and Helping Professionals. At the heart of his work is a commitment to dignity, belonging, collective care, and the transformation of systems that perpetuate harm.
He is the founder of In Lak’ech Counseling, Education, & Consulting, a Clinical Assistant Professor in the International Disaster Psychology program at the University of Denver, and a co-author of the Workbook for Social Action for Counselors, Psychologists, and Helping Professionals. At the heart of his work is a commitment to dignity, belonging, collective care, and the transformation of systems that perpetuate harm.
