Psychology within Reach

15/06/2025

12/12/2023

19/11/2023

Although I'm already looking forward to vacation this year, spending these days in Madrid training with Carmen Vázquez Bandín always brings me back to work with my batteries charged and a backpack full of insights to process and apply.

10/10/2023

20/08/2023

One of the most essential parts of therapeutic work is achieving a shared space in which ALL emotions are validated. Despite the fact that this is something more and more "known" it is still a challenge when it comes to giving space to experiences as harsh as depressive ones or feelings as complex as shame. Like the drowning swimmer in a stormy sea, our urge to avoid the situation often robs us of the opportunity to notice a lifeline.

20/02/2023

23/10/2022

I often say that my patients take such good care of me that it feels unreal this is my profession.

A good example of this is how one of them has made me understand what is truly important in our contact.

While reading the intake form filled out by a patient I had recently had the intro with, I had the wonderful surprise of finding the following answer to the question "How did you find me?"

"I found you calming and reassuring. I am looking forward to beginning our sessions."

Now it's time to live up to that human quality, so that in our therapeutic process this woman realizes her beautiful essence.

10/08/2022

Even though each grieving process is personal and unique in the way it is lived, loss is an experience that we all go through at some point in our lives.

Sometimes my patients ask me for advice on readings that can help them and when it comes to grieving processes, I find "Notes on Grief" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie a work of art when it comes to presenting in the first person the radical humanity of the pain.

It touches me especially because she is also someone who has left her family in her country of origin and faces one of the misfortunes most feared by those of us who live far from our culture, our language and in short, far from being able to say goodbye with a hug to the loved one who departs.

This is also part of the reality of

TIP: She narrates it herself in the audible version and I have to say that it is one of the few books worth listening to in the author's voice.

23/04/2022

Aunque no es un medio que suela leer, el titular me ha llamado la atención y lo cierto es que me ha parecido un análisis digno de compartir del efecto de este tipo de formatos televisivos en nuestras creencias sobre las relaciones de pareja.

Analizamos si los programas para encontrar pareja, al carecer de un análisis por parte de expertos en perspectiva de género, resultan problemáticos.

28/03/2022

Let's learn from the compassion and love living in our animal nature.

15/03/2022

For those like me who need a gentle reminder to pause and just breathe, I recommend this app. In its free version it includes a great diversity of content and allows you to select the formats, durations and languages ​​that best suit each person. A jewel.

27/02/2022

La tolerancia a la frustración es una de las habilidades psicológicas que mejor pueden ayudar a nuestras criaturas a convertirse en personas emocionalmente sanas en su madurez.

Esta emoción desagradable aparece en aquellas situaciones en la que nos damos cuenta de que no podemos conseguir alguna cosa importante para nosotros