Dr. Lynette Lively Cookson (she/they) is a Clinical Psychologist in San Diego who champions infant and early childhood mental health through treatment interventions, community collaboration, provider training, and supervision. Dr. Cookson earned their PsyD in Clinical Psychology from Alliant International University in San Diego in 2022 and has been licensed as a Clinical Psychologist since fall of 2024. They completed their Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the University of Washington, Seattle in 2016. They work part-time as lecturer and clinical supervisor for San Diego State University’s Department of Child and Family Development, Licensed Professional Clinical Counseling Master’s Program. Dr. Lively Cookson provides reflective supervision and Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) for young children and families at the SDSU-affiliated clinic, Healthy Early Years Clinic, while also working in private practice supporting military families, blended and resource families, and other diverse populations. Dr. Lively Cookson is a consultant with Love, Dad., providing reflective practice groups for the Fatherhood Engagement and Family-Centered Perimental Health Trainings with Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health.  Dr. Lively Cookson’s intersectional identities that inform their professional work include their heritage as First Generation Filipino American and Black American Descendant of African Slaves displaced onto the lands of Mississippi and Louisiana, military child and spouse, gender-queer person, and first-generation college graduate. 

Type: Fellowship, University of California, Davis, Fellowship, Infant-Parent Mental Health Continuing and Professional Education, Napa, California, December 2023, March 2025