Full-Time Institute Faculty

B.S. Psychology, Santa Clara University, 2000

Ph.D. Counseling Psychology, Washington State University, 2007

Postdoctoral Fellow, Counseling and Psychological Services, University of California, Berkeley, 2008

Dr. del Prado's professional experience and clinical training have mostly focused on multiculturalism and college student populations. Dr. del Prado has provided individual and group counseling to multiculturally diverse undergraduate and graduate students in university counseling centers at Washington State University and the University of California, Berkeley. She conducts therapy from an integrated interpersonal, multicultural, and cognitive-behavioral orientation, and her primary clinical interests include working with women, women of color, and persons of racially mixed heritage. She has worked with clientele on a variety of presenting issues, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, acculturation difficulties, ethnic identity conflicts, and sexual identity exploration. Dr. del Prado has vast experience facilitating workshops on a range of psychological and career counseling topics, such as stress management, multiracial identities, body image, countertransference, career selection, and interviewing strategies. Dr. del Prado has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on psychopathology, cross-cultural psychology, psychological and educational assessment, and career development at Santa Clara University, Sonoma State University, and Washington State University.

For six years, Dr. del Prado was part of an international research team and collaborated on cross-cultural research studies of personality with participants in Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, and the United States. She has presented the research findings at national and local conferences, and has coauthored publications based on these studies in top-tier academic journals. For her dissertation, Dr. del Prado developed and validated an enculturation scale for Filipino Americans.