Patricia Contreras-Ulloa

Patricia Contreras-Ulloa serves as an Adjunct Faculty member at Palmer Theological Seminary, Eastern University, where she leverages her dual expertise as a pastoral psychologist and ordained minister. Her professional identity integrates clinical counseling with theological education across multiple institutional contexts.

Her primary research and practice domains focus on:

• marriage and family systems
• integrative counseling methodologies
• personality development across life stages
• women's and adolescent psychology
• grief and trauma processing
• Bible-psychology interdisciplinary frameworks
• psychopathology in religious contexts

Dr. Contreras-Ulloa founded the Pastoral Psychology Diploma program at Mexico's Theological Community and taught at Presbyterian and Baptist seminaries before establishing the Institute of Faith and Psychology. She currently directs Christian Counseling and Marriage Counseling diploma programs while serving as associate pastor at her Baptist congregation alongside her husband.