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About me
· ABOUT ME
REGISTERED WITH THE OFFICIAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHOLOGISTS OF MADRID · COL. M-26120
Psychologist & Researcher
Working through the mind, body and the arts
For more than 25 years, my work has moved between professional practice and research, shaped as much by professional experience as by my own path across countries and cultures.
Alongside this practice, my background includes research and consulting for international organisations across sectors such as consumer goods, healthcare, technology and entertainment.
I have lived and worked across Europe, North America and Latin America. This has influenced how I understand identity, belonging and life transitions, not as abstractions, but as things I have had to navigate myself.
I trained first as a psychologist. Over time, I built on that foundation with expressive arts, psychodrama and embodied practice: disciplines that let a conversation move beyond explanation into what is actually being lived and sensed. This is not incidental. It has been central to my work for most of my career.
My approach is grounded in research and informed by cognitive-behavioural perspectives. I pay attention not only to how experience is explained, but also to how it is lived and sensed in the body.
I work in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Professional background
Qualifications:
Licensed Psychologist, Official College of Psychologists of Madrid (Col. M-26120), practising since 2000.
Master's Degree in Psychology and Expressive Arts, IATBA Expressive Arts School of Barcelona (2023).
Training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, IPETEC — Instituto Peruano de Terapia Cognitivo-Conductual (2000).
Additional professional training:
Psychodrama, embodiment and somatic approaches, humanistic psychology, social intervention — including Theatre of the Oppressed — and mindfulness.
My training in embodiment and creative expression also runs through the performing arts: clown and mask work with Sue Morrison (Clown Through Mask; Joey and Auguste) in Canada, Spain and Ireland, sculpture at the Academy of Art in Barcelona, and theatre training at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin.
This range continues to shape how creative and embodied expression enter my psychological work.
Selected professional & community engagement:
Creative Writing Tutor, Fighting Words, Ireland (since 2017)
Expressive Arts Psychologist, Sa Terra Forest School, Menorca (since 2019)
Creator, Adolescentando (Podcast)
Identity and belonging · relationships and boundaries · life transitions · professional identity and direction · living between cultures · existential questions and meaning
This work does not include diagnosis, clinical assessment or the treatment of mental disorders.
Psychological work, for me, is about making space for people to build lives that truly make sense to them.
If this speaks to you
If you recognise yourself in what you've read, you are welcome to request an initial conversation.
We can then explore whether working together makes sense at this point in your life.
