obert Rhoton, PsyD, LPC, D.A.A.E.T.S., is a retired professor who taught for 20 years at Ottawa University (Phoenix) in the Behavioral Sciences and Counseling Department. Dr. Rhoton’s primary interests are training counselors to work with traumagenic family dynamics; child & family trauma; and non-egoic models of treatment. As CEO of Arizona Trauma Institute, Dr. Rhoton has supervised multiple outpatient clinics, juvenile justice programs, and intensive outpatient substance abuse programs for adolescents, day treatment programs for children and youth, adult offender programs, child and family therapeutic services, advanced training in child and adolescent trauma treatment, family therapy and family trauma.

Dr. Rhoton is the past president of the Arizona Trauma Therapy Network (2010-2012). Additionally, Dr. Rhoton is vice president of the International Association of Trauma Professionals. Currently, serves as co-editor of the International Journal of Trauma Practice and Research. He is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and collaborates and consults with numerous Arizona community behavioral health agencies to fine tune their understanding of trauma. Dr. Rhoton serves on the Arizona Department of Health Services Trauma Informed Care (TIC) task-force as a community member. He is a gubernatorial appointee to the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners and Governor’s Office of Youth, Faith and Family.