Matthew McKay
Psychologist, professor and author
Matthew McKay is a clinical psychologist and professor who has written many psychology and self-help books. He also co-founded the publisher New Harbinger Publications.
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About Matthew McKay
Matthew McKay, PhD, is a psychology professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. His PhD in clinical psychology comes from the California School of Professional Psychology, and in private practice he specializes in treating anxiety and depression with cognitive behavioral methods. He has written or co-written more than 30 professional psychology and self-help books, including The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook. He co-founded the independent self-help publisher New Harbinger Publications. For twenty-five years he was the clinical director for Haight Ashbury Psychological Services in San Francisco. He has also served as director of the Berkeley CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) Clinic. McKay writes fiction and poetry as well. His poetry has been published in more than sixty literary magazines and in two collections from Plum Branch Press. His novel Wawona Hotel came out from Boaz Press in 2008.