William Shunkamolah is a member of the Osage, Navajo, Kiowa,and Tohono O’odham tribes. He received my Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Montana in Missoula, MT. William grew up in NM, but have lived and worked in various Native communities in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Montana. His thesis and dissertation research focused on American Indian people’s grief and bereavement experience, which he explored using both qualitative and quantitative methods. He completed his postdoctoral residency at the San Carlos Apache Tribal Wellness Center in San Carlos Arizona, and completed his internship at the Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa in Tulsa, OK. He will have been employed with the Indian Health Service at the Gallup Indian Medical Center in Gallup NM for 3 years this October, and have been the Acting Director of Behavioral Health since the beginning of 2017. He enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, music and concerts, movies, and various sporting events. William is a fellow at Gallup Indian Medical Center in Gallup, NM.