Robert-Jay Green is founder and senior research fellow of the Rockway Institute, and distinguished professor (emeritus) in the Clinical Psychology PhD Program of the California School of Professional Psychology, a division of Alliant International University.
During 1986–2013, Green served as professor and director of family/child psychology training in the APA-accredited Clinical Psychology PhD Program at the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP); and from February 2006 to August 2013, Green was the founder and executive director of the university's Rockway Institute (a center for LGBT psychological research & public policy).
From 1978 to 1991, he served as co-founder and co-director of Redwood Center Psychology Associates in Berkeley—one of the leading couple and family therapy training centers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He previously served four elected terms on the Board of Directors of the American Family Therapy Academy and served a term as vice-president of the American Psychological Association's Society for Couple & Family Psychology.
He was one of the founding committee members and continues as a senior research scholar of the Council on Contemporary Families.