Nurturing Parenting for the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect.
Nurturing Parenting for the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect.


Sonya Lopez, LCSW

Sonya Lopez, LCSW, Faculty and Upward Bound Director at Texas State University, Ms. Lopez is a Private Therapist in San Marcos Texas where she resides with her husband Andrew and two boys Alec and Aaron. For the last eight years she has held a faculty position with Texas State University- San Marcos and was the director of an interdisciplinary service learning lab. She comes with a wealth of experience working with multiple university departments and community partners. In her private practice she facilitates psycho-educational, support and self help groups in addition to providing therapy services to children, youth and families. Ms. Lopez conducts interactive, motivational, and informative trainings in such areas as infant mental health, clinical, home-based services, child welfare, various parent education topics, reflective supervision, ethical leadership, poverty and diversity. She provides training and consultation at a state and national level. She works on multiple statewide initiatives. Ms. Lopez is one of twenty-one Rockefeller Fellows working for the Barat Education Foundation where she participates in national university speaking engagements and diversity forum with open discussions on critical social divides such as race, class, gender, social inequality and injustices. Ms. Lopez has been a National Trainer/Consultant with the Nurturing Parenting Programs since 1999.

She has been the recipient of the following awards:

ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION, 2002
Next Generation Leadership Fellowship

TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY-SAN MARCOS, 2000
Clinical Faculty Award

STATE OF TEXAS, 1999
T. Berry Brazelton Infant Mental Health Special

Training & Consulting Topics:

  • Many Parent Education Curricula
  • Home-based Services
  • Assessment& Reporting Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Family Systems Theory
  • Infant Mental Health (infant - 6)
  • Anger Management Techniques
  • Grant Writing & Fundraising
  • Behavior modification
  • Pervasive Developmental Disorders - Autism
  • Attention Deficient Disorder
  • Facilitating Children and Adult Groups
  • Play Therapy and Family Therapy
  • Interviewing Sexually Abused Children
  • Crisis & Suicide Intervention
  • Violence Prevention
  • Sensory Integration
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Ethical Leadership & diversity
  • Short-term Therapy with Child/Adults
  • Youth Civic engagement
  • Reflective Supervision
  • Staff Motivation and Management
  • Mediation & Conflict Resolution

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#116 Sonya Lopez
Central Texas Nurturing Program
San Marcos, Texas
(512) 757-0087
sonyalopez10@centurytel.net
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