Giac-Thao Tran

Alisia (Giac-Thao) Tran is an associate professor in the counseling and counseling psychology program at Arizona State University’s College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. She heads the Tran Ethnic and Minority Psychology and Experiences (TEMPE) Lab. Her broad research interests are in minority equity, mental health, and development. Her current emerging research focus is on student-athlete mental health, as well as socioeconomic disparities and financial stressors. Other major research foci include discrimination, ethnic-racial or cultural socialization, and ethnic minority psychology. Her research draws on methodological approaches from counseling psychology, social psychology, neuropsychology and cognitive psychology, and public health. Her clinical interests are in pediatric neuropsychology and psychology. Her advocacy work is based in local and national Asian American communities and organizations, as well as in APA Division 17 (Society for Counseling Psychology). 

Tran completed her doctoral training and clinical internship at the University of Minnesota. She has been humbled and honored by her selection as the 2018 Asian American Psychological Association Early Career Research awardee, the 2017 Arizona Psychological Association Faculty of the Year, a 2014 APA Minority Fellowship Psychology Summer Institute Fellow, and a 2013 Division 17 Leadership Academy member.