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 Dinè 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.  

ABOUT THE EVENT

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

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

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

VIDEO for the main colloquium: 

The video for the public colloquium are provided. These materials are available for non-commercial use only. If you use of these materials for non-commercial purposes, please make sure to give proper attribution 

Watch video: https://sfu.zoom.us/rec/play/rNcE8xr7R5JUankJCxyw6MNh3-RfUy4v2LRi9gdq1ryVQ9bAzJ7l41r2BXq-z2dsvxqjYVIejAM8EGDH.6J_tjRNsBs-IMJWC%20
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To cite the video, please use the following reference information

Lomay, Vicky. T. (March 25, 2026). Decolonization and Indigenization in Psychology: Perspectives of a Dinè Psychologist. Public virtual lecture -- SFU Psychology Indigenous Reconciliation Committee Invited Scholar Colloquium, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. 

The events and recording are offered free to attendees and others. If you would like to make a donation in appreciation of these materials, please consider donations to one of the following:
- for Indigenous Students, e.g. the First Nations, Metis, Inuit Student Association Endowments.
    visit: https://secure.give.sfu.ca/donate, and search Indigenous.
- the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, visit: https://www.irsss.ca/
- Indspire, visit: https://indspire.ca/ways-to-give/donate/

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 is a former member of the APA Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs. 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.

Some References/Resources:

Cerbone, B., Hanson, K. D., Lomay, V. T., Wicklund, M., & Weidman, D. A. (2025). Neuropsychological Functioning in Cognitively Normal, Older American Indians of the Southwestern United States. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 40(5), 954–964. https://doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acae116

Fouladi, R.T., Crouch, M., Baez, M.S.E., Lomay, V.T., Ross, R. J., & Boyd, B.J. (2024, November 19). APA Science Training Session: Indigenous Methodologies and Assessment. American Psychological Association.  Webinars and Training Library

Morse, G. S., & Lomay, V. T. (Eds.) (2020). Understanding Indigenous Perspectives: Visions, Dreams, and Hallucinations. Cognella Academic Publishing. 

Lomay, V.T. (2020). Neurobiology of Hallucinations. In Morse, G. S., Lomay, V. T. (Eds.) Understanding Indigenous Perspectives: Visions, Dreams, and Hallucinations. Cognella Academic Publishing.

Lomay, V.T., & Johnstone, B. (2016). Spirituality, Religiousness, and Culture in Neurorehabilition. In Uomoto, J. (Ed.) Multicultural Neurorehabilitation: Clinical Principles for Rehabilitation Professionals. Springer Publishing.  

Lomay, V. T., Baena, E., Johnson, S. F., Sung, C., Wegener, S. T., Bechtold, K. T., & Meade, M. A. (2025). Reaching Marginalized and Underserved Populations and Communities. In The Oxford Handbook of Rehabilitation Psychology. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197525456.013.0069

Lomay, V. T., & Hinkebein, J. H. (2006). Cultural Considerations When Providing Rehabilitation Services to American Indians. Rehabilitation Psychology, 51(1), 36–42. https://doi.org/10.1037/0090-5550.51.1.36

Lomay, V. T., Prigatano, G. P., & Macniven, J. A. B. (2015). Neuropsychological Assessment of an American Indian with a Ruptured Right Carotid Aneurysm and Associated Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. In Neuropsychological Formulation (pp. 117–131). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18338-1_7

Prigatano, G. P., Gray, J. A., & Lomay, V. T. (2008). Verbal (animal) fluency scores in age/grade appropriate minority children from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 14(1), 143–147. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617708080089