Professional Profile
A. Tom Horvath, PhD, ABPP, has specialized in addictive problems since 1985. Dr. Horvath is the founder and president of Practical Recovery Psychology Group in San Diego, past president of the American Psychological Association (APA)’s Society of Addiction Psychology (Division 50; the world’s largest organization of addiction psychologists), past president of the San Diego Psychological Association, and author of Sex, Drugs, Gambling & Chocolate: A Workbook for Overcoming Addictions, recommended as a self-help book by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT). He has been an instructor of graduate addiction courses at Alliant International University and the University of San Diego. He was a co-founder and was for 20 years the volunteer president of SMART Recovery (established 1994), an international non-profit offering free, self-empowering, science-informed addictive problem mutual help groups. He continues to serve on SMART’s US board of directors, and the Global Research Advisory Committee of SMART Recovery International. He was an active-duty US Navy psychologist from 1981-84, stationed at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, and Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma. He is a Fellow of the San Diego Psychological Association, ABCT and APA. In 2022 he received APA Division 50’s award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Public Interest.
