Conor J. Smith

Conor Smith is a core faculty member and the Assistant Director of Clinical training in the Clinical Psychology PsyD program at the University of San Francisco. He received his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (PsyD) from the University of San Francisco and completed his clinical residency and internship at the San Francisco V.A. Health Care System. 

His primary clinical and research interests involve addressing the healthcare needs of LGBTQ+ people and other marginalized communities through improving their healthcare experiences. He developed a measure of minority stress experiences encountered by LGBTQ+ people in the healthcare system as his clinical dissertation project. He has also conducted research on how environmental factors such as housing status impacts the physical and mental health outcomes of members of the transgender community, and has researched the healthcare experiences of people who engage in kink/BDSM. He has recently begun consulting for summer camps to improve their ability to provide mental health support to their staff and the communities they serve.

• LGBTQ+ mental health
• Veteran mental health
• Primary care mental health

• LGBTQ+ community health
• Addressing bias in healthcare delivery
• Improving summer camp mental health delivery

• Assistant Director of Clinical Training, Clinical Psychology PsyD Program

• University of San Francisco, Doctor of Psychology PsyD, 2021
• University of San Francisco, MS in Clinical Psychology, 2019
• Boston College, BA in Philosophy and English, 2013

• Clinical Supervisor, Gronowski Center at Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, CA
• Postdoctoral Resident, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System/University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA
• Doctoral Intern, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System/University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA

• University of San Francisco, Recipient of the Kaiser Permanente Scholarship for PsyD Students, 2019