Sean Ransom, Ph.D.
Dr. Sean Ransom, the co-founder of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center of Hawaii, trained in CBT at the University of South Florida, a member institution of the Academy of Clinical Psychological Sciences, where he received his doctorate. He received additional training with the founders of CBT at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research.
Dr. Ransom’s doctoral research was performed at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, one the nation’s top cancer hospitals, where he studied post-traumatic growth, the positive changes people claimed to experience as they coped with breast or prostate cancer. After completing a clinical internship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Dr. Ransom was appointed in 2006 to the faculty of the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Brigham Young University’s Hawaii campus. In 2009, Dr. Ransom began serving as a clinical faculty member in the Tulane University Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and led the Patricia Trost Friedler Center for Psychosocial Oncology.
In 2012, Dr. Ransom launched the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center of New Orleans, and then collaborated with Ashley Wiberg, LCSW, to launch the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center of Hawaii (CBT Hawaii) in 2016. For the past several years, Dr. Ransom has also been on the faculty of the LSU Behavioral Health Center Department of Psychiatry, where he has taught CBT to psychiatry residents. Dr. Ransom is a Hawaii licensed psychologist and his work at CBT Hawaii primarily involves administration and the supervision of postdoctoral psychology fellows.
Dr. Ransom has presented nationally and internationally and is the author of numerous research articles on coping with cancer, social cognition, cultural psychology, post-traumatic growth, and other notable topics. His research has been published in well-respected journals such as the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Cancer.