Teresa López-Castro, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department of The City College of New York. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from the Graduate Center at The City University of New York and has been a faculty member of CCNY’s Psychology Department since 2014. She is also part of the doctoral faculty of the Health Psychology and Clinical Science Training Area of the Graduate Center. Her research focuses on the substantial overlap between substance use and mental health problems, particularly trauma-related disorders. She is particularly interested in the mechanisms which connect traumatic stress to substance misuse and how these mechanisms may inform more personalized treatments for their co-occurrence. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Dr. López-Castro leads a line of multidisciplinary, community-engaged research with harm reduction organizations to help increase access and engagement to quality mental health care for people who use drugs.
Education
- BA, Columbia College, Columbia University
- PhD, Clinical Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY
