ABOUT ME
My story
I was born in Galicia, Spain. It’s where I grew up and where I began my education at what many people call the “University of Life.” Although that is where my journey started, I have always believed that what defines who I am is not so much where I am, but what I choose to do with my life while I’m there.
During the first years of my life, I went through some very difficult experiences. Looking back, I would say I reached rock bottom at a very young age.
At the time, I couldn’t see anything positive in what I was going through. But today, with perspective, I’m grateful for those experiences because they led me to discover what has become my greatest passion—and my profession: psychology.
When I hit rock bottom, I saw a psychologist for the first time. I was only seven years old, and as I walked out of that first session, I remember turning to my parents and saying, “When I grow up, I want to do this.”
To this day, I still feel the same excitement knowing that I achieved that dream: becoming a psychologist.
But as I often say, being something today doesn’t mean you will automatically continue to be it tomorrow. Being a parent, a child, a sibling, or a friend is something we work at every single day. I believe the same is true of being a psychologist. Although I earned my degree years ago, I still strive to become a little better at my profession every day.
When you come into my office, you bring with you the most genuine and vulnerable part of yourself: your suffering. My responsibility is to help you understand it and learn how to move forward with it.
I can only do that through responsibility, by continually developing my knowledge and skills; through empathy, by treating every person with the same care and respect I would want for my loved ones or for myself; and through wisdom, gained from my own life experiences and, above all, from wonderful people like you, who teach me something new every day.
If you choose me to accompany you through part of your journey, it would be a true privilege to walk alongside you.
My training
I studied Psychology at the University of Santiago de Compostela. After graduating, I experienced my first journey of migration when I moved to Madrid to complete a Master’s Degree in General Health Psychology. Later, I relocated to Copenhagen, where I completed an additional two years of supervised clinical training to obtain my authorisation as a clinical psychologist in Denmark, bringing my formal education and training to a total of eight years.
Alongside my formal education, I specialised in Couples Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Today, I continue to pursue ongoing professional development in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Attachment Theory, as I firmly believe that a good psychologist never stops learning.
My Experience
I have experience and training in individual, couples, and group therapy. My clinical work focuses on psychiatric and personality disorders, migration and intercultural adjustment, anxiety, depression, grief, obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD), post-traumatic stress, identity-related difficulties, self-esteem, and life transitions.
Today, I work as a licensed clinical psychologist in Copenhagen. I am also a Psychology Lecturer at DIS Copenhagen and a member of the Sandau & Nymand Community of Practice, where I collaborate with fellow psychologists in ongoing professional development and clinical supervision.
