Dr. Renée López serves as a counseling and sport psychologist within the Georgia Tech athletics department of sport psychology.
Throughout her training and practice, Dr. López has focused her energy on empowering student-athletes and supporting the betterment of mental health, well-being, and sport performance. Dr. López has researched and worked in athletics in various capacities including mentoring and teaching a Life Skills class for athletes in the athletic academic center at UT, leading therapeutic support groups for injured athletes, and providing individual counseling and team programming/workshops to a variety of collegiate and youth athletes.
Dr. López hails from Virginia but has lived all over the country. She graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from the University of Virginia, where she was a member of UVA’s women’s soccer team. Dr. López completed her Ph.D. in counseling psychology with a concentration in sport psychology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and completed her internship at Texas A&M University, College Station.
In addition to her work as a psychologist, she is also a certified personal trainer. She and her husband, Javier, have two children, Kylan and Cristian, and outside of work, she is most often found shuttling her kids to-and-from practices and trying not to coach them from the sidelines (at which she fails miserably). When not cheering on her kids, she enjoys working out, traveling, playing tennis, and loving on Maverick and Goose, the family’s two yellow Labradors.
Dr. López relies on a Humanistic approach to therapy and utilizes a variety of techniques such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Somatic Psychology, Breathwork, and Parts Work to assist clients in gaining insight into their inner lives and building skills to enhance their wellbeing. Dr. López has a strong passion for educating, empowering, and supporting her clients. It is an honor and a privilege for her to walk a small part of each client’s journey with them and support them as they work to actualize their best selves.
