Cheryl Lanktree
Cheryl Lanktree, Ph.D., is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice and Assistant Professor of Research Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. She was Project Director and Co-PI of the University of Southern California Adolescent Trauma Training Center (USC-ATTC), a Category II site of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) from 2012-2021. She is currently Center Director of the USC-ATTC and a consultant for the UNC-CH School of Social Work National Initiative for Trauma Education and Workforce Development, a Category II site of the NCTSN.
Dr. Lanktree is the developer of Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma for Children (ITCT-C) and co-developer of Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma for Adolescents (ITCT-A). Dr. Lanktree has co-authored Treating Complex Trauma in Adolescents and Young Adults (Sage, 2012), Treating Complex Trauma in Children and their Families: An Integrative Approach (Sage, 2016), and six ITCT-A related treatment and implementation guides available at attc.usc.edu. She has also published numerous papers and book chapters on the assessment and treatment of child trauma, including research providing the evidence base for ITCT.
She was a member of the training and consultation faculty for the Center for Treatment of Developmental Trauma Disorders (CTDTD) at the University of Connecticut, a Category II site of the NCTSN (2016-2021). Dr. Lanktree was Director of Miller Children’s Abuse and Violence Intervention Center, Long Beach, California (1998-2009), funded as a Category III site of NCTSN (2001-2005) and as a Category II NCTSN site with the University of Southern California (2005-2009). She was Clinical Director of Stuart House, Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, California (1988-1996), and has held academic appointments at the University of California-Los Angeles, and California State University-Fullerton. Dr. Lanktree has conducted numerous trainings on ITCT-C and ITCT-A to thousands of clinicians nationwide and internationally, from 2006 to the present. She has also provided trainings on the assessment and treatment of child and adolescent trauma since 1989, nationally and in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Russia, Scotland, and Sweden.
Dr. Lanktree graduated from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba with a PhD in Clinical Psychology following a predoctoral internship in Clinical Psychology at Yale University. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Behavioral Medicine at UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Lanktree’s website is: www.cblanktree.com.