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A licensed clinical psychologist and educator, Dr. Gordon E. MacKinnon has garnered nearly three decades of expertise with MacKinnon Psychological Associates, specializing in marriage, family therapy and trauma. Establishing his firm in 1997, he treats a wide range of patients, including adults, adolescents and children, with a particular focus on personalized treatment protocols addressing responses to traumatic events. Concurrently, he served as a professor in the department of psychology and behavioral sciences at Rochester University from 1997 until attaining emeritus status in 2021. During this time, he served as the department chairperson from 2005 to 2020 and was the director of the MacKinnon Psychology and Counseling Clinic, which was named in his honor in 2017. Teaching undergraduate students such topics as the psychology of religion, adolescent development, lifespan development, and substance use and addictive behaviors, among other areas, he recently accepted an appointment as adjunct faculty at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine. Impressively, Dr. MacKinnon received the inaugural Award for Faculty Excellence in 2022 and was named Distinguished Faculty of the Year in 2014 by Rochester University. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology from the University of Detroit Mercy.