Office Location
856 York Research Tower

York University
4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ont., M3J 1P3

Phone: (416) 736-2100 ex.33688 (Voicemail)
Electronic mail address: killian@yorku.ca

Kyle D. Killian, Ph.D., RMFT is Associate Professor at York University, teaches in the Children Studies Program and is Research Faculty at the Centre for Refugee Studies. Dr. Killian has published articles and book chapters on factors associated with resilience and burnout in health care professionals, emotional intelligence, immigrant and refugee families, and trauma.

His co-edited volume Intercultural Couples: Exploring Diversity in Intimate Relationships is now available from Routledge, and he is completing another book entitled Crossing Racial Borders: Interracial Couples, Intimacy and Therapy with Columbia University Press. A member of the editorial boards of The Qualitative Report, Journal of Systemic Therapies, and Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, Dr. Killian enjoys teaching qualitative and quantitative research methods, writing measures of emotional intelligence, post-traumatic stress, and critical thinking, writing film reviews, and directing digital film projects.

Dr. Killian is a member of an interdisciplinary team, the Toronto Mental Health Project, addressing interpersonal and community violence and traumatic stress processes in low income neighbourhoods in the greater Toronto area.