Indigenous scholar speaker Series Colloquium, March 25, 2026

Dr. Vicky Lomay | Tsinajini Psychology Services, PLLC

Talk Title: Decolonization and Indigenization in Psychology: Perspectives of a Dine Psychologist

The events on this page are being organized by the Department of Psychology Indigenous Reconciliation Committee. We  thank the Department for its assistance in funding this event.  

The events are offered free. If you would like to make a donation in appreciation of the events and other materials that will be provided after the event, you may wish to consider some of the following options:
- donations to SFU Awards/Bursary/Scholarships, e.g. the First Nations, Metis, Inuit Student Association Endowments. visit: https://secure.give.sfu.ca/donate, and search Indigenous,
- donations to Indspire, visit: https://indspire.ca/ways-to-give/donate/
- donations to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, visit: https://www.irsss.ca/  

ABOUT THE EVENT

Dr. Vicky Lomay will be offering an Online Public Talk/Colloquium (~1h15min) and an additional followup Online Small Group Meeting with Indigenous students and scholars (~45min)

The public talk/colloquium will take place:
March 25th, 2026: 1:30-2:45
The small group meeting (by invitation only) will take place:
March 25th, 2026: 2:45-3:30 

Register/Express interest at the Google Form through this link to attend the colloquium;
the registration form is also set up to express interest in the small group meeting for Indigenous students/scholars.

Abstract for the main colloquium: 

Details of the colloquium will be provided here. 

ABOUT Dr. Vicky Lomay:

Vicky T. Lomay, Ph.D. is a Dinè (Navajo) licensed psychologist in Arizona,  She is the owner of Tsinajini Psychology Services, PLLC. She is the current president of President, APA Division 35 Section 6 AIANI Women and is former Secretary and now President-Elect for the Society of Indian Psychologists. She completed her doctoral studies at Arizona State University in counseling psychology. She completed an APA-accredited clinical internship at the Missouri Health Sciences Psychology Consortium in Columbia, Missouri. She went on to finish a research fellowship and postdoctoral residency in clinical neuropsychology at Barrow Neurological Institute/St. Joseph’s Hospital & Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. She focuses her clinical practice on developing and interweaving culturally appropriate methods into assessment, evaluation, psychological and neuropsychological testing, and individual psychotherapy. For over two decades, she has worked with tribal communities in the Southwest U.S. She co-edited the book Understanding Indigenous Perspectives: Hallucinations, Visions, and Dreams, and she coauthored chapters about multicultural neurorehabilitation and neuropsychology. .