PROFILE

Victor Counted, Ph.D., is associate professor of psychology and director of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he also leads the Christian Flourishing Science Lab as director. Counted is a faculty affiliate of Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program and a fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion. He has a Ph.D. in health psychology from Western Sydney University, Australia, and a second Ph.D. in psychology of religion from the University of Groningen, Netherlands. He serves as associate editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology and editor of Springer’s Religion, Spirituality, and Health: A Social Scientific Approach book series. Counted has authored over 80 peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly publications that examine how psychological processes—particularly those related to social, spiritual, environmental, and neurological dimensions—shape human flourishing across cultures. His work explores how these dimensions interact to support, sustain, and strengthen health and well-being, and how disruptions to these processes can lead to stressors or challenges that require adaptive responses. He also utilizes a unique integrative flourishing framework that integrates psychological science and practice with cross-cultural healthcare practices to develop evidence-based and theoretically-driven research interventions that promote health and well-being for individuals and communities. You can learn more about his four-stage framework of the psychology of human flourishing on his page.