Director of I CONECT - Institute for Care Management, Outreach, Networking, Engagement, Connecting, and Training - Center for Practice Innovations at Columbia Psychiatry.

Luis O. Lopez, MA, MS, is the Director of I CONECT at CPI. He has a MA in Counseling from NJCU and a MS in Administration from Metropolitan College, in NYC. He also studied philosophy and politics for 3 years at the New School for Social Research.
Luis is a counselor, a trainer, a consultant, and a coach. He has been in the field of Behavioral Health since 1987. He worked with NYC probation and NYC foster care services for a few years. He has over 15 years of experience working in housing services as a provider and as a trainer. He has been involved in the implementation, and sometimes, unique application, of Evidence Based Practices since 2003. He has been at the New York State Psychiatric Institute since 2013. He has expertise in the areas of Trauma Responsive Care, Motivational Interviewing, Dual Recovery, Group Dynamics, Cultural Humility, Stages of Change, Harm Reduction, WRAP, CBT, Wellness Self-Management, recovery-based language, Social Justice Advocacy and the ACT Model.
Luis has facilitated workshops in over 150 conferences nationally, in Canada, and Europe. He has conducted consultations in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. In 2023, he presented in Leuven, Belgium, on the topic of Integrating Recovery in ACT Teams. In June 2024, he was asked to keynote on the topic of Supervising ACT Teams in Aviles, Spain. In June, 2025, he has 3 presentations at EAOF in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He is the lead consultant of his LLC, LOL Connections. He is a member of the American Counseling Association and ACA-NY. He is a chess player, a Jiu Jitsu practitioner, and a DJ at TWITCH TV and MIXCLOUD. He is also a founding member of GACTA (the Global ACT Association) and a board member of the ALLIANCE for Rights and Recovery.