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Dr. Paul Hoard is a licensed counselor who holds a doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision from Regent University. He completed the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program at the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute and he specializes in working with adolescents with sexual behavior problems. A “third culture kid,” he was raised in Ankara, Turkey, and has provided mental health counseling and clinical supervision in the United States, Ukraine, and Turkey. His research and scholarly work draw on Lacanian psychoanalysis and focus on the intersection of perpetration trauma, sexuality, white-body supremacy, and adolescent mental health. An interdisciplinary thinker, he works at the convergence of psychoanalysis, theology, and cultural formation.

Dr. Hoard is the coauthor with his sister, Billie, of the book Eucontamination: Disgust Theology and the Christian Life and serves as a board member for the Center for Christianity and Psychoanalysis. He is also co-founder of Praxplay, a roleplay simulation engine.

In the classroom, Dr. Hoard is known for weaving games, songs, and cultural artifacts into his teaching, creating space for students to explore psychoanalytic and clinical concepts through unexpected angles. His approach reflects a curiosity about what else might be present in the material, an invitation he extends to his students as well.

Dr. Hoard maintains active involvement in various professional counseling and scholarly associations.

Online Publications

• Bland, E. D., & Hoard, P. (2026). The Christian filter: Lacan and being a “good enough” Christian. Journal of Psychology and Theology.
• Hoard, P. (2026). Lacan plays Catan: Unconscious desire in tabletop gaming. Board Game Academics, 3(1).
• Hoard, P. (2024). The Other Journal.
• Hoard, P. (2024). The Other Journal.
• Hoard, P., & Hoard, W. (2024). The Other Journal.
• Steinke, P., & Hoard, P. (2024). Christ and Cascadia.
• Hoard, P. (2023). The Other Journal.
• Hoard, P., & Steinke, P. (2023). Christ and Cascadia.
• Hoard, P., & Hoard, W. (2022). The Other Journal.
• Hoard, P., & Hoard, W., (2020). , The Other Journal (32)

Publications

• Hoard, P., & Hoard, B. (2025). Eucontamination: Disgust theology and the Christian life. Cascade Books.
• Moore, B. N., Hoard, P., & Blackburn, A. (2024). Humility and the task of integration. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 43(1), 78–84.
• Hoard, P., & Bland, E. (2023). “How am I responsible?”: Evangelical white rage and the interpassive perpetration of white-body supremacy. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 33(5), 653–670.
• Bland, E., & Hoard, P. (2023). How the story is told: A response to Jacobs and Starr. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 33(5), 685–692.
• Hoard, P., & Hoard, W. (2023). Eucontamination: Enacting a centered-set theology in a multicultural world. Journal of Psychology and Theology.
• Ma, J. S., & Hoard, P. R. (2020). A tale of two fears: Negotiating trust and neighborly relations in urbanizing Turkey. Journal of Contemporary European Studies.
• Demirtas-Zorbaz, S., & Hoard, P. (2019). Adaptation and preliminary validation for the Turkish context of the school climate and school identification measure. International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 5(1), 323–330.
• Ozturk, M., & Hoard, P., (Eds.). (2019). Examining the teacher induction process in contemporary education systems. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
• Ergene, T., et al. (2018). Risk behaviors of high school students. H.U. Journal of Education.
• Hoard, P., et al. (2017). Preliminary results of social climate’s impact on treatment progress of juveniles with sexual behavior problems. Journal of Behavior.
• Underwood, L. A., & Dailey, F. L. (2016). Counseling adolescents competently (Chapter Lead: Juvenile Justice Involved Adolescents). Sage Publications.