Layli Khaghani, PsyD
Adjunct Faculty
lkhaghani@wi.edu

Layli Khaghani received her PsyD from California School of Professional Psychology/Alliant International University in 2019. She completed her doctoral internship at Kaiser Oakland and her postdoctoral fellowship at Saint Mary’s College of California CAPS program in 2020. Prior to pursuing her PsyD, Dr. Khaghani received her PhD in American Studies and African American Studies from Yale University in 2011. Her research involved Black and SWANA anti-colonial intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century. Since 2022, Dr. Khaghani has supervised at the Wright Institute Student Wellness Program, and has found working with transitional age youth, college students and students of all ages to be inspiring and transformative. Dr. Khaghani specializes in serving individuals who have suffered complex and intergenerational trauma, especially with regard to refugee trauma. She is passionate about providing care for BIPOC communities, especially women and children of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, immigrants, refugees and their families. Dr. Khaghani is also dedicated to making space for spirituality, faith and ritual within the field of psychology, and has a longstanding interest depth psychology. She is deeply committed to interweaving clinical psychology with social justice, and approaches her teaching, supervision and clinical work through a decolonial lens. Dr. Khaghani currently serves as the President of the American Arab Middle Eastern North African Psychology Association (AMENA-Psy), and enjoys reading, poetry, listening to podcasts and music of all sorts – especially Qawwali -- and walking her dogs, Zaytoun and Pesteh.