Faculty: Zenobia Morrill, PhD

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Zenobia Morrill, PhD

Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology Department

Associate Director, Center for Psychological Science

Email
zenobia_morrill@williamjames.edu
Phone
617-564-1192
Pronouns
she/her/hers
Degree Major/Emphasis Institution Year
PhD Counseling Psychology University of Massachusetts Boston 2021
EdM, MA Counseling Psychology Teachers College, Columbia University 2016
BA Psychology University of Virginia 2013

Courses

  • Introduction to Clinical Practice
  • Advanced Clinical Practice
  • Contemporary Psychodynamic Theory and Practice

Research and Practice Interests

  • Psychotherapy process
  • Critical and liberation psychologies
  • Qualitative inquiry and methodology
  • Global Mental Health
  • Structural violence
  • Theory and philosophy in psychology and psychiatry

Professional Licensures and Certifications

  • Licensed Psychologist and Health Services Provider (MA)

Awards

  • Sigmund Koch Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology, Awarded by Division 24 of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Manuscript Development Award 2023

Publications and Presentations

Peer-reviewed Publications

Published Journal Articles and Academic Chapters

  • Morrill, Z. & Comas-Dìaz, L. (2025). Critical-Liberation Psychotherapy: Unsettling hegemonic power toward liberatory practice. American Psychologist, 80(4), 576–588.dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0001444
  • Morrill, Z. (2025). Genuineness in Humanistic-Existential Psychotherapy. In L. Hoffman & Lac, V. (Eds.), Evidence-Based Foundations of Existential-Humanistic Therapy. APA Books.
  • Rizo, J. L., Levitt, H. M., Morrill, Z., & Ipekci, B. (2025). A metamethod analysis of qualitative research methodology in studies of psychotherapists’ experience. Psychotherapy Research, 1–14. /doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2025.2530561
  • Levitt, H. M., Hamburger, A., Hill, C. E., McLeod, J., Pascual-Leone, A., Timulak, L., Buccholz, M., Fuertes, J., Frommer, J., Iwakabe, S., Martinez, C., Morrill, Z., Knox, S., Langer, P., Muran, J. C., Oddli, H., Řiháček, T., Tomicic, A., & Tuval-Mashiach, R. (2025). Broadening the evidentiary bass for clinical guidance: Recommendations from international qualitative psychotherapy researchers. American Psychologist, 80(3), 389–410. doi.org/10.1037/amp0001363
  • Morrill, Z. & Comas-Dìaz, L. (2024). Feminist liberation psychotherapy: Re-politicizing intersectionality toward socially just clinical practice. Women & Therapy, 47(3), 331–347. dx.doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2024.2386513 
  • Morrill, Z., Guterres, K., Rietti, S., & Goodman, D. (2024). Making sense of being and transforming: Introduction to the Psychology and the Other special issue on Gender & Sexuality. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 25(2), 71–75.doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2024.2346451 
  • Morrill, Z. (2024). Book Review: Life-Enhancing Anxiety by Schneider, K. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 64(5), 974–981. doi.org/10.1177/00221678241239713
  • Morrill, Z., & Rizo, J. L. (2023). Actualizing transformative promises of qualitative inquiry: Early career retrospective. Qualitative Psychology, 10(3), 404–419. doi.org/10.1037/qup0000271
  • Levitt, H. M. & Morrill, Z. (2023). Silences in psychotherapy: An integrative meta-analytic research review. Psychotherapy, 60(3), 320–341. doi.org/10.1037/pst0000480
  • Levitt, H. M. & Morrill, Z. (2023). Silence. In C. Hill & J. Norcross (Eds.), Psychotherapy skills and methods that work. Oxford. doi.org/10.1037/pst0000487
  • Levitt, H. M., Collins, K., & Morrill, Z. (2023). A functionalist theory of gender, gender identities, and sexuality: A Humanistic exploration of experiences of LGBTQ+ gender communities. In S. Simpson, M. Racho, B. D. Robbins, & L. Hoffman (Eds.), Eros & Psyche: Humanistic and Existential Approaches to Sex and Sexuality (Vol. 1). University Professors Press. 
  • Levitt, H. M., Grabowski, L. M., Minami, T., & Morrill, Z. (2023). An initial validation of the Clients’ Experience of Therapy Scale (CETS): assessing the quality of psychotherapy process and outcome from clients’ perspectives. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 1-25. doi.org/10.1080/09515070.2023.2191171
  • Morrill, Z. (2022). Humanistic psychotherapy. In H. Friedman & C. Markey (Eds.), Encyclopedia of mental health (3rd ed.). Academic Press (Elsevier). doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91497-0.00099-0
  • Levitt, H. M., Collins, K., Morrill, Z., Gorman, K., Grabowski, L., Karch, J., Ipekci, B., Orduña Picón, R., Reyes, A., Vaswani, A., & Wadler, B. (2022). Learning clinical and cultural empathy: A call for a multidimensional approach to empathy-focused psychotherapy training. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 52, 267–279. doi.org/10.1007/s10879-022-09541-y  
  • Levitt, H. M., Ipekci, B., Morrill, Z., & Rizo, J. L. (2021). Intersubjective recognition as the methodological enactment of epistemic privilege: A critical basis for consensus and intersubjective confirmation procedures. Qualitative Psychology, 8(3), 407–427. doi.org/10.1037/qup0000206
  • Morrill, Z. (2021). Power dynamics in psychotherapy: Eminent therapists’ experiences navigating power from Humanistic-Existential and Feminist-Multicultural perspectives (Publication No. 28645574) [Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts Boston]. Proquest Dissertations Publishing.
  • Levitt, H. M., Morrill, Z., Collins, K., & Rizo, J. (2021). The methodological integrity of critical qualitative research: Principles to support design and research review. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 68(3), 357–370. doi.org/10.1037/cou0000523
  • Saleem, R., Morrill, Z., Brodt, M., & Pagan-Ortiz, M. (2021). Oppression and resistance: An analysis of Muslims’ experiences of structural violence. Journal of Community Psychology, 50, 426–444. doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22588
  • Cosgrove, L., Morrill, Z., & Karter, J. M. (2021). Digital aripiprazole as a human technology. Economy and Society, 50(3), 359–373. doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1908767
  • Morrill, Z. (2020). Introduction to the COVID-19 second special issue. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 61(2), 155–159. doi.org/10.1177/0022167820966412 
  • Levitt, H. M. & Morrill, Z. (2020). Measuring silence: The pausing inventory categorization system and a review of findings. In A. Dimitrijevic & M. Buccholz (Eds.), Silence and silencing in psychoanalysis: Cultural, clinical and research perspectives (pp. 233-249). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9780429350900 
  • Cosgrove, L., Morrill, Z., Karter, J. M., Valdez, E., & Cheng, C. (2020). The cultural politics of mental illness: Toward a rights-based approach to global mental health. Community Mental Health Journal, 57, 3–9. doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00720-6
  • Cosgrove, L., Morrill, Z., Yousef, M., Vaswani, A., Cathcart, S., Troeger, R., & Karter, J. (2020). Drivers of and solutions for the over-use of antidepressant medication in pediatric populations. Frontiers Psychiatry, 11(17). doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00017
  • Saleem, R., Morrill, Z., & Karter, J. M. (2019). Special issue on radical humanism, intersectional consciousness, and social change. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 61(6), 851–860. doi.org/10.1177/0022167819878912
  • Levitt, H. M., Morrill Z., & Collins, K. (2019). Methodological integrity in counselling and psychotherapy research. Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Journal, 20(3), 422–428. doi.org/10.1002/capr.12284
  • Cosgrove, L., Karter, J. M., Morrill, Z., & McGinley, M. (2020). Psychology and surveillance capitalism: The risk of pushing mental health apps during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 60(5), 611–625. doi.org/10.1177/0022167820937498
  • Saleem, R., Pagan-Ortiz, M., Morrill, Z., Brodt, M., & Andrade, L. (2020). “I thought it would be different”: Experiences of structural violence in the lives of undocumented Latinas. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 26(2), 171–180. doi.org/10.1037/pac0000420
  • Cosgrove, L., Karter, J. M., McGinley, M., & Morrill, Z. (2020). Digital phenotyping and digital psychotropic drugs: Mental health surveillance tools that threaten human rights. Health & Human Rights, 22(2), 33–40. www.hhrjournal.org/2020/12/perspective-digital-phenotyping-and-digital-psychotropic-drugs-mental-health-surveillance-tools-that-threaten-human-rights/

Accepted/Forthcoming

  • Morrill, Z. (Accepted). On being and knowing from the in-between. In L. Gerstein, E. Abrams, & Banerjee, A. (Eds.), Confronting structural and cultural violence: Counseling professionals’ testimonios of positive peace work.
  • Morrill, Z. (Accepted). Interstitial onto-epistemologies in liberatory praxis & clinical practice. In S. Bhatia, J. S. Fernandez, & C. Sonn (Eds.), Decolonial psychology: Academic & activist perspectives. Routledge.
  • Morrill, Z. & Hernandez, J. G. L. (In press). Branches of Humanistic and Existential Psychology. In APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology.
  • Levitt, H. M. & Morrill, Z. (In press). Elements of Power in Humanistic and Existential Psychotherapy. In APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology.
  • Ingle, M. & Morrill, Z. (In press). (Anti)Capitalist Therapeutics: Analyzing Psycho-therapy’s Role within Capitalism and Proposing a Critical-Liberation Psycho-therapy. In J. Hook & F. Gruba-McCallister (Eds.), The Revolutionary Psychologist’s Guide to Radical Therapy. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Rizo, J. L., Levitt, H. M., Morrill, Z., & Ipekci, B. (In press). A metamethod analysis of qualitative research methodology in studies of psychotherapists’ experience. Psychotherapy Research. doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2025.2530561 

For information about additional accepted and forthcoming publications and conference presentations, please email Dr. Morrill

Concurrent Leadership, Service and Professional Activities

  • Editorial Board Member, Psychology and the Other Book Series
  • Senior Research Associate, Psychological Humanities and Ethics Center, Boston College
  • Member at Large, Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (STPP), Division 24 of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Conference Coordinator and Secretary, Executive Committee, Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (SQIP), Division 5 subsection of APA
  • Psychoanalytic Fellow 2021-2023, American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA)
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JHP)
  • Scientific Committee Member,  Fourth World Congress of Existential Therapy

  • Licensed Psychologist in Private Practice

Prior Experience

  • Research Officer for the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, Dainius Puras
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Mental Health and Counseling, Yale University
  • Predoctoral Fellow in Clinical and Community Psychology, Yale School of Medicine
  • Practicum Trainee, Wellesley College Stone Center
  • Practicum Trainee, Behavioral Health Partial Program, McLean Hospital of Harvard Medical School
  • Psychology Trainee, Iona College Counseling Center, New York

Professional Affiliations

  • American Psychological Association (Divisions 5, 24, 29, 32, 35, 39)
  • American Psychoanalytic Association

Community Involvement

  • Sep. 2025–Invited Speaker, pre-conference workshop titled Liberation Psychotherapy, Psychology and the Other conference at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
  • August 2025–Invited Speaker, address titled Critical-Liberation Psychotherapy, present-ed as a Pre-APA Convention Workshop with the Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychological Association (RMHCPA) in Colorado Springs, CO, USA.
  • April 2025–Public Lecture, titled Reimagining Psychotherapy for Social Change: A Criti-cal Liberation Approach, presented virtually at Ghent University’s Center for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR) in Ghent, Belgium.
  • April 2025–Invited Speaker, address titled The Cultural Politics of Psychology and Reimagining Psychotherapy, presented at the Emerson College’s Honor’s Program in Boston, MA, USA.
  • July 2024–Invited Keynote Speaker, address titled On Being and Knowing from the In-Between: Interstitial Onto-Epistemology, presented at the Psychology and the Other 2024 conference in London, UK.