Allen E. Ivey received his Ed.D. from Harvard. He is Distinguished University Professor (Emeritus) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is currently President of Microtraining Associates, an educational publishing firm. A Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, Dr. Ivey is a past-president and Fellow of the Division of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association and is been a life member of American Counseling Association. He is also an elected Fellow of The Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues of APA. He is on the Board of Directors of the National Institute for Multicultural Competence.

The originator of microcounseling and Developmental Counseling and Therapy (DCT), Dr. Ivey has won wide recognition and national and international awards including A.C.A.’s Professional Development Award. Author or co-author of over 30 books and 200 articles, and chapters his works have been translated into at least 17 languages. He did original work on the multicultural implications of the microskills in 1968-74 and has been increasing his work in multicultural studies ever since. He is co-author of A Theory of Multicultural Counseling and Therapy (with Derald Wing Sue and Paul Pedersen (Brooks/Cole) and the 5th Edition of Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Multicultural Approach with Michael D'Andrea, Mary Bradford Ivey, and Lynn Simek-Morgan,

Spirituality and counseling is a recent extension of his work on interviewing skills plus multicultural and developmental thinking. Allen Ivey’s most recent writings have focused on “Psychotherapy as Liberation” and on generating a theoretical/practical approach for working in a positive developmental frame with so-called “pathology” and DSM-IV. His latest book is Developmental Counseling and Therapy: Wellness Over the Lifespan with Mary Bradford Ivey, Jane Myers, and Thomas Sweeney.