Lori R. Daniels, PhD, LCSW
School of Social Work, Hawaii Pacific University
Dr. Lori Daniels is an Associate Professor of Social Work for Hawai‘i Pacific University. She earned her MSW from the University of Chicago in 1987, and her PhD in Social Welfare from the University of Hawai‘i- Manoa in 2002.
Her 20+ years as a clinician included working as the military sexual trauma psychotherapist for the Portland (OR) Vet Center, as a traumatic stress psychotherapist for the VAMC American Lake (Tacoma, WA) inpatient and outpatient PTSD programs, and as the Director of the Traumatic Stress Recovery Program (outpatient PTSD Clinical Team) for the Honolulu VA.
Dr. Daniels was awarded the VA Pre-doctoral Social Work Fellowship in 2002 and was selected as a VA/Hartford Geriatric Scholar (2011-2013) . Dr. Daniels has been a Consultant with the National Center for PTSD – Pacific Islands Division and was the Co-chair of a community-based conference: Stress, Violence, and Trauma: Promoting Hawaii’s Resilience for four years. She also produced a VA educational video about diversity and PTSD counseling for Pacific Island veteran counselors.
Her publications include research articles (J of Gerontological Social Work, Traumatology) and clinical book chapters in Healing War Trauma: Using Creative Approaches; The Handbook of Post-Traumatic Therapy; and in the Oxford Handbook of Social Work and Healthy Aging. Her solo-authored book, Collaborative Recovery: Using Experiential & Person-Centered Approaches for Survivors of Sexual Assault and Institutional Betrayal has been contracted by Routledge and should be published in 2024.
