Our Leadership

 

Ivelisse Sabater,
President

Ivelisse Sabater is the Co-Owner, Co-Founder, Chief Operations Officer, Chief Financial Officer of Sabater Laboratory for Psychological Innovations, Inc (SabaterLAB). She is both a Co-Founder and the President of the SabaterLAB Foundation.

Ivelisse is an experienced educator by trade who has been vastly recognized for her outstanding leadership roles, which reflect in her innate ability to motivate teamwork results that exceed expectations each time. Being determined has placed Ivelisse as principal recipient for grants, scholarships, and stipends, all which have served to fund many school projects and initiatives. She is well liked and respected among faculty, staff, parents, and students being consistently approached for guidance and support to assist with school issues, including issues that are related to students’ mental health. 

Ivelisse holds the degrees of Doctor of Theology degree from Dayspring Theology University and Bachelor of Arts in modern languages from Rhode Island College. She has completed all coursework except for the internship experience requirement in her Masters in Family Counseling program that includes a concentration in trauma care from Walden University. Ivelisse is currently a graduate student at Worcester State University in the Master of Education program enrolled in Special Education track.


Ivelisse is wholeheartedly invested in our vision, leading with a strong commitment in serving uniquely diverse communities as a priority for SabaterLAB Foundation. Through accessible, equitable, and inclusive efforts to serve she eradicates existent disparities of partnerships, funding, programs, integrative services, and resources. Driven by our mission to serve, she continues to advocate knowing that similar services are not always what we want or need them to be to genuinely help and understand communities and people of color.

 


Dr. Julio E. Sabater,
Vice President

Dr. Julio E. Sabater is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Founder, Owner, and Chief Executive Officer of Sabater Laboratory for Psychological Innovations Inc (SabaterLAB), an organization that offers high quality bilingual psychological services, and provides racial, cultural, and linguistic diverse training experiences. SabaterLAB has also joined partners on the workforce development and mental health pipeline, actively advocating for accessible, equitable, and inclusive approaches to directly impact workplace, education, health, knowledge production, and training.


Dr. Sabater is Co-Founder and the Vice President of SabaterLAB Foundation, and he also serves as Chairman of our Board of Directors. Dr. Sabater is a Black Puerto Rican man, and he focuses on implementing varied ways to reduce stigmatized views around mental health and help-seeking choices which still exist within our community and people of color. Strengthening SabaterLAB Foundation’s workforce development training capacity of racially and culturally represented interns and volunteers to serve our community in their clinical experiences is one of many ways to reduce this stigma. 


Dr. Sabater received diverse academic training and professional experience that have afforded him the opportunity to serve in clinical, school, community, training, and faith-based settings for more than 25 years. Dr. Sabater has been advocating for underserved communities in various organizations which include Worcester Public Schools, The Providence Center, Providence Public Schools District, UMMHC Community Healthlink, and Children’s Friend. Dr. Sabater holds a Ph.D. degree in combined school/counseling psychology and a master’s degree in counseling psychology, both from Northeastern University. More recently, he completed a Doctor of Theology degree from Dayspring Theology University.


He holds licensure as a clinical psychologist in Rhode Island since 2014, and he has been a nationally registered health service psychologist since 2015. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Sabater has been invited as panelist on trauma care, professional psychologist training, and mental health workforce pipeline obstacles. He is part of the group taskforce for the recently signed law Trauma Informed Schools, a statewide initiative to provide trauma informed training to school communities in Rhode Island to serve those impacted by adverse experiences. In addition, along with his wife, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Rhode Island Small Business Coalition. He is also involved in efforts to implement mental health care within faith-based organizations in the state.


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