Thomas G. Plante

Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. University Professor, Professor of Psychology

Thomas G. Plante, Ph.D., ABPP is the Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. University Professor, professor of psychology, and by courtesy, religious studies and the Jesuit School of Theology, at Santa Clara University and directs the Applied Spirituality Institute. He is a scholar in residence of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, the largest applied ethics center in the world. Additionally, he is an emeritus adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. He currently serves as editor of the APA journal, Spirituality in Clinical Practice and is an APA fellow (Divisions 12, 36, 38, 46, and 47). He recently served on APA’s Council of Representatives and Council Leadership Team. He has published 29 books including most recently, Living Ethically in an Unethical World and Spiritually Informed Therapy (both in 2024). He has published over 250 professional journal articles and book chapters. He has been frequently featured in most major national and international media outlets such as CNN, Time Magazine, NBC Nightly News, and the PBS News Hour. Time Magazine featured him in 2005 and referred to him in a 2002 cover story about clerical abuse as one of “three leading American Catholics.” He served as vice-chair of the National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Youth for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other child protection Church review boards. He maintains a private clinical practice in Menlo Park, CA.

Santa Clara, CA