Christopher R. Martell, Ph.D., ABPP
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Christopher Martell, Ph.D., ABPP is Director of the Psychological Services Center and Professor of Practice in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Martell is first author of two of the primary texts on contemporary behavioral activation (BA), “Depression in Context: Strategies for Guided Action” with Dr. Michael Addis and the late Dr. Neil S. Jacobson, and “Behavioral Activation for Depression: A Clinician’s Guide” with Drs. Sona Dimidjian and Ruth Herman-Dunn. He has co-authored many chapters and articles on BA and on affirmative care with sexual minority and gender-diverse clients. He was in private practice in Seattle, Washington for 23 years and on clinical faculty in the departments of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Washington prior to turning his attention exclusively to training the next generation of students.
