Dr. Aprilia West is a psychologist, coach, trainer and behavioral health consultant with 20+ years' experience working with founders, leaders, artists & creatives, teams, and organizations spanning U.S. Congress, tech, entertainment, Fortune 500 companies, and nonprofit advocacy campaigns.
Blending positive psychology, behavioral science and 3 decades of real-world experience, Dr. West offers evidence-based therapy, coaching, consulting and training to individuals, leaders and teams and professionals to improve wellbeing, psychological flexibility, creativity, performance, and prosocial behavior change.
Aprilia is best known as an expert in the application of contextual behavioral science for clinicians, coaches, organizations and global public policy campaigns. She developed the construct of emotional efficacy and designed and piloted the Emotion Efficacy Therapy (EET) protocol as a doctoral student in clinical psychology. In addition, she coauthored the clinician's guide to Emotion Efficacy Therapy (2016) and has since expanded her research and developed advanced emotion efficacy training for professionals.
Dr. West has also authored several other books and peer-reviewed articles related to psychology, emotions and decision-making including:
ACT for Your Best Life (2023), What You Feel Is Not All There Is (2021) and she is coauthor of Acceptance and Commitment Coaching in the Workplace in Positive Psychology in the Workplace (Springer 2021). She has trained thousands of professional therapists and coaches worldwide in applying contextual behavioral science in clinical, private and organizational settings.
Dr. West is a fellow with the Harvard Institute of Coaching and is credentialed as a professional certified coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is also a certified mediator with training from Harvard Law School’s program on negotiation and conflict resolution. In addition, she is founding member and past president of the Southern California chapter for the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) and is a member of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM), and Society of Consulting Psychology (Division 13) of the American Psychological Association.
