Meet the 2025 TPA Board of Trustee Nominees

TPA is proud to present the candidates nominated to serve on the 2025 Board of Trustees. Each nominee brings a wealth of experience, dedication, and passion for advancing psychology across the state. Below, you’ll find personal statements from each candidate, outlining their professional background, vision for TPA, and commitment to serving the association and its members. We encourage all members to review the nominees’ statements and cast their votes to help shape the future leadership of TPA.
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Dr. John Delatorre

President-Elect Designate Nominee

To the members of TPA,

I am honored to be your nominee for President-elect designate. This is truly a blessing that I do not take lightly. I have been a member of TPA since I was a Master’s level provider. Upon licensure, I immediately came home to San Antonio to start my private forensic practice. I was able to be involved with TPA’s DRN, eventually becoming the chair of that special interest group as it transitioned to becoming a division. President Fran Douglas appointed me to the Board of Trustees to finish out a year of someone that was no longer on the board. After that, I was privileged to be elected to my current term on the board. I have served as the chair for the Forensic Division and currently as the Editor in Chief of the Texas Psychologist magazine. TPA is facing a multitude of issues, such as the upcoming independent licensure exam and the ramifications of it, membership declining, advancement of RxP practice, and the maintenance of the doctoral standard. There are a multitude of issues facing each of us as members and those of us that are non-members whether you are in clinical practice or in academics. Our students are confronted with their issues. As President, my intention is to advocate for RxP, to maintain the doctoral standard, to ensure science based education and training, to include advocating for our researchers all while expressing the empathy and willingness to listen to various positions on how to achieve that advocacy. And that is where I hope you come in. I am asking for your vote. Not only to serve as your President, to serve your interests. I want us all to come together and speak together and serve together. I want us to reach out to each other, but to those that are not members. We are stronger together. We are stronger when we embrace the varying stages and positions we hold as psychologists. Students, early career, clinical practice, research, academics, and all the various subspecialties have a home in TPA. Times are hard, there is no denying that, we are the ones that can describe and influence so that we and people we serve can move forward. Thank you for the nomination and I ask again for your vote. If you have questions about me, please ask. And take the time to learn and vote for the slate of nominees looking to serve as new Board of Trustees.

 

Dr. Dennis Scholl
Trustee Nominee

Remembering that I took my first college course in Psychology 53 years ago, I realized "Promotion of Psychology as a Science and a Profession” has been a constant factor throughout my adult life. Psychology in practice, administration, teaching, consultation, and research gave me many rewards. It also helped make me a generally optimistic, patient, usually kind, and fairly understanding person. I feel I owe Psychology something in return. Serving TPA in this capacity fits. Surely, I anticipate working with TPA colleagues to address such matters as:
  1. Psychology in relation to health technology advances
  2. Continued attention to Psychologists’ compensation
  3. Psychology in relationship with allied healthcare and educational professionals
  4. Legislation regarding the preceding matters and for other mental health policy and research concerns.
I ask your endorsement, and I pledge to serve responsibly with caring and thoughtful engagement within TPA teams.

Dr. Sarah Krantz 

Trustee Nominee

It is an honor to be nominated for the TPA Board of Trustees. As a current member of the Membership and Academic and Higher Education Committees, I have seen firsthand TPA’s dedication to our profession. My professional journey has included growth from solo practitioner to now leading a multispecialty team of over 50 professionals who provide counseling, evaluations, ABA, and medication management. That growth has also created some challenges. 

A significant percentage of clients in my rural area have Medicaid. My commitment to ensuring these clients receive the same priority as those with cash/private insurance has highlighted systemic barriers to care for underserved populations. That commitment has led to pointed conversations with payors, collaboration within and across disciplines, and it has necessitated interactions with legislators to help exert pressure on state payors to honor their financial obligations. While those actions have solved immediate concerns, broader policy change is needed, and the list of barriers my clients experience continues to grow. As a trustee, I would hope to help find solutions that reduce the administrative and financial burdens that discourage providers from accepting insurance/Medicaid at all.

My experience balancing the business of practice with a commitment to improving access to care aligns directly with TPA’s mission to “advocate for the health and well-being of all people, including individuals from diverse and marginalized backgrounds.”  

I would be humbled by your support, and I would consider it a privilege to serve my profession and clients in this capacity.

Dr. Ken Montfort

Trustee Nominee

I am honored to accept this nomination to the TPA Board of Trustees. Over the past 20 years, I have had the privilege of connecting with psychologists across diverse disciplines, including private practice, academia, public service, school systems, and forensic settings. These experiences have deepened my appreciation for the varied perspectives that shape our field and position me to represent our profession with nuance and inclusiveness. It is largely due to these relationships that I decided to pursue my doctorate in clinical psychology through a distributed education model, which served to further broaden my experience with psychologists from varied geographic regions and theoretical orientations.

I have come to believe in the power of relationships built on mutual trust and respect. Not only does this apply to discussions with psychologists across the state to be better prepared to represent the broad range of your perspectives, but also to interactions with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, all of whom benefit from informed dialogue. Furthermore, psychologists are uniquely equipped to offer insights that can improve public policy and protect the communities we serve. Among the issues that resonate with many psychologists, maintaining the doctoral standard remains central to our identity and credibility. I believe TPA plays a vital role in upholding this standard and advocating for the integrity of psychological practice across Texas.

If elected, I will bring a collaborative, pragmatic voice to the Board, committed to advancing our shared values and strengthening the future of psychology in Texas.