Isabel López, Ph.D.

About

Dra. Isabel López is a Counseling Psychologist and earned her Ph.D. in Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She completed her predoctoral internship training at Arizona State University's Counseling Services. Her research and clinical interests center on Latine mental health, focusing on acculturation and migration experiences, identifying facilitators and barriers to accessing mental health care, and developing bilingual mental health competencies.

Education

California State University, Northridge - B.A. Psychology (Honors)

California State University, Northridge - M.A. Clinical Psychology

University of California, Santa Barbara - Ph.D. Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology

Expertise

Latine mental health, immigration psychology, cultural identity, bilingual provision of psychotherapeutic care

Consoli, A. J., Ramírez-Gutiérrez, Y., Anaya-López, M., López, I., & Meléndez, E. A. (2026). El entrenamiento: Training necessities and opportunities to advance bilingual mental health competencies. In M. Campos, Y. Mejia, & A. J. Consoli (Eds.), Forging caminos: Pathways to becoming a bilingual mental health professional (pp. 87-109). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000481-006 

Consoli, A. J., Anaya-López, M., Flores, I., Sharma, H., López, I., Melendez, E. A., & Ramírez-Gutiérrez, Y. (2025). Supervision of mental health service providers working with Latine populations in the U.S.A. In M. d. P. Grazioso, R. K. Goodyear, M. I. Gallardo-Cooper, H. Fernandez-Alvarez, C. A. Falender, & A. A. Cobar (Eds.), Clinical supervision in Latin America (pp.55-77). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82373-2_4

Vasquez-Salgado, Y., Camacho, T. C., López, I., Chavira, G., Saetermoe, C. L., & Khachikian, C. (2023). “I definitely feel like a scientist”: Exploring science identity trajectories among Latinx students in a critical race theory-informed undergraduate research experience. Infant and Child Development, 32, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2371

Consoli, A. J., López, I., & Whaling, K. (2021). Alternate cultural paradigms in Latinx Psychology: An empirical, collaborative exploration. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 00, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678211051797