Andrés J. Consoli (he/him/él), Ph.D., is a bilingual (English and Spanish) professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology and a faculty affiliate at the Chicana/o Studies Department, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara.
Consoli’s scholarship addresses transnational collaborations, multicultural supervision, psychotherapy integration training, systematic treatment selection, values in psychotherapy, access and utilization of mental health services within a social justice framework and the development of a bilingual academic and mental-health workforce. With more than 100 publications, Consoli is the lead editor of the multinational book “Comprehensive Textbook of Psychotherapy: Theory and Practice” (Oxford University Press); a co-author of the binational book “CBT Strategies for Anxious and Depressed Children and Adolescents: A Clinician’s Toolkit” (Guilford Press); and a co-editor of “Forging Caminos: Pathways to Becoming a Bilingual Mental-Health Professional” (American Psychological Association).
Consoli was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He earned a licenciatura in clinical psychology (Universidad de Belgrano, 1985), a master’s (1991) and a doctorate in counseling psychology (UC Santa Barbara, 1994) and postdoctoral training in behavioral medicine (Stanford University School of Medicine, 1994–96). From 1996–2013, he was a professor and associate chair of the Department of Counseling, College of Health and Social Sciences at San Francisco State University. He was president of the National Latinx Psychological Association (2014) and president of the Interamerican Society of Psychology (2007–09). He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and a licensed psychologist in California.