Oscar Widales-Benitez, PhD, NCSP 

Oscar Widales-Benitez is a bilingual (English/Spanish) licensed psychologist and a Nationally Certified School Psychologist. He has specialized in providing culturally responsive, evidence-based services for traumatized and bereaved youth. He currently serves as a Senior Clinical Implementation Specialist at the Trauma and Grief center where his works centers on training and advocacy. Oscar’s clinical interests include understanding risk and protective factors impacting the psychological functioning of Latinx, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ youth as well as the development and validation of culturally responsive assessment and interventions.