
Victoria Liou-Johnson
PhD, MS
Board President
Victoria Liou-Johnson, PhD, MS, is a clinical psychologist and clinical neuropsychologist, with a background in social justice, diversity, and equity which she brings to her clinical practice and research. She is the Co-Founder and Founding Executive Director of the non-profit, Hawai’i Behavioral Health Connection (formerly, Maui Strong Mental Health Response), whose mission is to increase equity and access to evidence-based and culturally informed behavioral health care for all people of Hawaiʻi through education, service, advocacy, program development, research, and collaboration.
Dr. Liou-Johnson’s research interests center on health equity and include: TBI, cognition, trauma, displacement, gender and racial/ethnic differences in health disparities, especially in AA/PI/NH/AN/NA population. Her research utilizes interdisciplinary collaboration, and qualitative and quantitative methods, to explore these topics. As a researcher and clinician, she is particularly interested in the translational implications and implementation of her research to improve current interventions and outcomes, especially for historically marginalized populations.
Dr. Liou-Johnson maintains a small private practice, which focuses on culturally conscious and culturally appropriate trauma treatment for Indigenous and historically marginalized populations. She is an Affiliated Scholar at the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center, a healthcare research and policy consultant, and faculty member in the PhD Clinical Psychology Program at Palo Alto University and Notre Dame de Namur University’s Master of Clinical Psychology Program. In addition to clinical and research work, she also enjoys mentoring students and trainees of all levels, from underrepresented groups.