About Me
I'm a Medical doctor expert in Ericksonian Psychotherapy
I know the multicultural environment
I have been there... and
I know how you feel
As a doctor by training and a humanitarian by vocation, I declare myself humane and humanitarian, since I cannot conceive of one without the other.
From a very young age I was sensitive to human suffering, and very soon I became aware of other existences that were more disadvantaged than mine, developing a natural inclination to help others.
Thinking about what could be the best way to contribute something to humanity, I decided on Medicine as the best way to care for others. And, feeling privileged to belong to a part of the world with greater development, in material terms, I chose to exercise my knowledge in more disadvantaged countries through International Cooperation programs.
This decision led me to what would be my first field experience: the Ecuadorian Amazon Forest. Practicing Western medicine in such a precarious place tested my ability to adapt, both physically and emotionally. And that was definitely the vocation I wanted to follow, so I continued my training in that direction by studying Infectious and Tropical Diseases at a Peruvian Institute.
As fate would have it, I was sent back to my hometown in Spain, where I had the opportunity to contact the Red Cross to start working in a Centre for the Care of Drug Addicts, a position of team coordination and therapeutic service to those affected and their families, which provided me with experience in group therapy, from a mental health perspective, and the opportunity to develop techniques for listening to and communicating with families and their social environment, in general, confirming the importance of the environment in the integral health of the human being.
As I continued to be very interested in working in other countries, I moved to the Department of International Cooperation, becoming part of the great family of the International Red Cross Movement, whose principles would mark my career as a person and a professional.
After expanding my academic knowledge with a degree in International Health, I began my humanitarian work with the International Committee of the Red Cross, starting my journey through several countries, first as a Medical Delegate of the Department of Protection, ensuring that basic care for security detainees in prisons was respected, beyond ideologies and political or territorial conflicts, to move, later, to the position of Coordinator of Health Programs. Thus I got to know countries as diverse as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Peru; Saharan Refugee Camps in the south of Algeria, Myanmar, Chad, Indonesia, Pakistan, Liberia, the Philippines and Afghanistan.
Years of experience living and working as an expatriate, in conflictive and therefore emotionally intense environments, sharing successes and difficulties with multidisciplinary and multicultural teams. Facing the clash between the expectations of the humanitarian ideal and a raw and violent reality, with values that differ from those that brought you there. Maintaining the motivation that what one can contribute counts.
Aware of the importance of digesting and assimilating each lived experience, I decided to space out the time between mission and mission, and dedicate those moments to taking care of myself, to study other subjects of my interest (Therapeutic Graphology, Human Resources Management, Foot Reflexology) always in the line of learning more and better how to take care of others, or working in the health system of my country of origin so as not to lose the perspective of how it was to live in my own culture.
However, as a doctor of reference, also for colleagues, I witnessed how the “humanitarian system” was gradually undermining their morale and energy, entering the maelstrom myself, which made me think that there must be another way to do this work without so much wear and tear.
At that point, I decided it was time to change my way of working and start helping people from their capacities, which led me to recycle myself professionally in the study and training in Ericksonian Psychotherapy, Clinical Hypnosis and Neurolinguistic Programming, acquiring the necessary tools to provide support, also, from the psychological side.
After some time dedicated to the general population, I have decided that my knowledge and experience are much more useful in the field of humanitarian, so here I am offering you what I have learned and lived, what I know to help you live your experience better, because it is possible to do it differently.
