Marcelle Bartolo-Abela

MARCELLE BARTOLO-ABELA is a Maltese-American Catholic author and consultant on the intersection of multiculturalism, psychology, spirituality and the political sphere. She is also founder and director of Hope & Life Press. A first-generation immigrant to the United States of America (US) after having lived and worked in Malta for over 25 years, Bartolo-Abela has served as clinician in various hospital, urban community and private practice settings in the Northeast US and Malta, specializing in psychotherapy for late adolescents and adults with a range of psychopathologies and ‘treatment failures.’ She has lectured on psychology and psychotherapy to psychiatry residents, clinical graduate and undergraduate students in the US, UK and Malta, including the Malta Ministry of Health, focusing on the intersection of post-Lacanian clinical practice, multiculturalism and spirituality. ​Bartolo-Abela has served as consultant to faculty and program managers on the applied intersections of critical and mainstream psychologies; multiculturalism in the clinical provision of psychology and counseling services; and multiculturalism, psychology, and spirituality. She also provided advocacy and consultation on criminalization discourses and violations of free speech rights of healthcare professionals in the well-funded, broad-scope legislative agenda First Malta Then the World. A revert to the Catholic faith, Bartolo-Abela is the author of several books on Christian spirituality: Who Are You?

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