My Approach
Let’s begin a therapeutic journey that supports your needs and honors the richness of your cultural background and life story.
As a licensed psychologist and psychotherapist, I offer a warm and supportive space where you can explore your emotions and experiences freely. Drawing on both international experience and diverse therapeutic approaches, I create a tailored process that respects your individuality and cultural context. I work with both individuals and couples, ensuring that each person or partnership receives the personalized attention they deserve.
Integrating modalities to improve well-being and relationships
I blend the evidenced-based techniques of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with the systemic and relational principles of Systemic Relational Therapy (SRT). This integrative approach gives a holistic understanding of your mental health and well-being as we explore both internal thought processes and the intricate web of relationships that shape your life.
Together, we’ll work toward easing distress, enhancing your emotional well-being, and strengthening your relationships, all while cultivating your sense of agency so you can meet life’s challenges with resilience and clarity.
Culture and individuality in therapy
In our work together, cultural awareness is an essential part of the process. We’ll explore how your background, values, and experiences shape your worldview, taking care to understand your cultural roots and create a space where your identity and individuality is respected and seen in its full context.
I extend this approach to my work with expats, acknowledging the unique transitions and adjustments that come with living between cultures.
In my practice, I also strive to offer an affirming space for members of the LGBTQIA+ community, where we can explore the intersection of identity, culture, and personal experience with openness and care.
By honoring cultural nuances and individual diversity, I aim to provide inclusive, personalized therapy that fosters understanding, connection, and growth.
Take the first step towards positive change — because your well-being matters
Whether you’re struggling in your relationships, seeking a deeper understanding of yourself, or hoping to find relief from feelings of anxiety, stress, low mood, or depression, I’m here to support you. Together, we’ll set meaningful goals, explore new perspectives, and develop practical tools to help you navigate life with greater balance and confidence.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Why Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy?
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is grounded in the belief that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are closely intertwined, shaping our experiences. In this way, CBT is a practical and goal-oriented approach and offers efficiency as well as tools to address current difficulties head-on; designed to empower you. It is structured around examining and challenging negative thought patterns and behaviors. CBT helps identify and reframe these thoughts, promoting more adaptive thinking.
We work with intention by setting specific goals within an achievable timeframe, ensuring that progress feels manageable, measurable, and tailored to your personal journey. By drawing on the principles of CBT, you’re not just finding ways to cope, you’re actively engaging in a transformative process that supports the positive change you’re seeking.
Systemic Relational Therapy
Why Systemic Relational Therapy?
Systemic Relational Therapy (SRT) serves as a helpful guide, allowing us to look at the deeper layers of the issue and which past familial dynamics and learned behaviors might inform the challenges you face today.
Within this framework we acknowledge that individuals exist within complex systems of relationships: family, social networks, and broader societal contexts. Together, we look at how these systems influence your experiences and well-being, exploring ways to strengthen understanding, communication, and connection with others.
This systemic lens helps us explore patterns of interaction, communication, and support within your relationships. Our work aims to strengthen these connections, deepen awareness, and promote healthier, more balanced relationships across the different areas of your life.
Integrated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Systemic Relational Therapy
Why an Integration of the two Approaches?
Integrating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with Systemic Relational Therapy (SRT) offers a holistic way of understanding emotional well-being. This combination allows us to address both individual patterns of thought and emotion and the relational contexts in which they occur.
While CBT provides practical tools for managing symptoms such as anxiety or depression, SRT explores how these experiences connect to the dynamics within your relationships and environment. Together, they create a process that promotes not only relief from immediate concerns but also deeper, lasting change in how you relate to yourself and others.
This integration naturally enhances cultural sensitivity, acknowledging how cultural background and context shape both thinking patterns and relationship dynamics. It also allows for flexibility, tailoring therapy to your personal needs and life experiences.
Ultimately, the synergy of CBT and SRT offers a comprehensive and adaptive framework, supporting growth, connection, and long-term emotional well-being.
Individual Therapy
Life can sometimes feel overwhelming. Individual therapy provides a confidential and supportive space to better understand yourself, work through challenges, and find new ways forward. Whether you’re coping with stress, finding yourself in moments of transitions, or seeking personal growth, therapy can help you gain clarity, build resilience, and create meaningful change.
Couples Therapy
Relationships are intricate and dynamic. Depending on whichever life stage you find yourselves in, it can sometimes require focused attention and care. Couples therapy provides a safe and collaborative space for you to explore and understand each other more deeply, improve communication, and strengthen the foundations of your relationship. Whether you are facing specific challenges, seeking general counseling, or simply aim to enhance your connection, couples therapy can be a transformative journey toward a healthier and more fulfilling partnership.
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Navigating emotional challenges, relational discord, or significant life transitions can feel overwhelming, particularly when building a life abroad or balancing multiple cultural backgrounds. Seeking dedicated psychological care is a constructive first step toward clarity, self-discovery, and emotional balance. In my practice, I offer a confidential, warm, and culturally sensitive space tailored to your unique personal context and relational realities.
Whether you are looking for individual therapy Barcelona to overcome persistent anxiety, address low mood, or build self-esteem, or you are seeking couples therapy Barcelona to restore trust, communication, and emotional closeness, my work focuses on meeting your concrete needs. By blending evidence-based interventions with deep relational insight, we work together to understand your past, address your present, and construct lasting emotional resilience.
My Approach: Integrating CBT and Systemic Relational Therapy
My therapeutic practice integrates the structured, empirical methods of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with the contextual depth of Systemic Relational Therapy. This dual methodology allows us to explore your internal cognitive processes while simultaneously examining how interpersonal dynamics, family backgrounds, and cultural environments influence your daily mental health and personal relationships.
Rather than adhering rigidly to a single therapeutic model, I believe therapy should adapt to the person sitting before me. When facing personal distress or relational difficulties, our symptoms rarely exist in a vacuum. By combining these two frameworks, we can address both immediate symptoms and their systemic roots, facilitating self-awareness and meaningful behavioral change.
Why an Integration of CBT and SRT Works
Integrating cognitive and systemic models creates a balanced, comprehensive treatment framework. While cognitive behavioral therapy provides practical, actionable techniques to identify and reshape distressing cognitive habits, systemic relational therapy Barcelona explores the broader ecosystem of your life—including your familial upbringing, communication styles, attachment patterns, and cultural perspectives.
This integrative approach provides key advantages:
- Targeted symptom relief: Rapidly identifies automatic cognitive patterns, offering concrete strategies to manage acute distress.
- Relational and systemic perspective: Reveals how recurring interpersonal conflicts or historical habits reinforce present struggles.
- Cultural and contextual awareness: Explicitly incorporates cultural values, migration journeys, and environmental demands into your treatment plan.
- Sustainable emotional change: Equips you with lifelong self-regulation skills while healing relational patterns at their core.
By addressing both what happens within your mind and how you interact with the surrounding world, this integrated therapy provides the clarity, personal agency, and emotional tools necessary to resolve conflicts and foster long-term psychological well-being.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety and Depression
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a goal-oriented, empirical framework focused on the dynamic relationship between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. When persistent anxiety or prolonged periods of low mood occur, thoughts often become rigidly self-critical or catastrophic. In therapy, we work collaboratively to evaluate these internal patterns, deconstruct unhelpful core beliefs, and replace them with adaptable, constructive alternatives.
If you are seeking cognitive behavioral therapy Barcelona or specialized anxiety therapy Barcelona, our sessions prioritize transparency and structured progress. We do not simply discuss distress; we actively cultivate targeted behavioral practices and emotional regulation strategies that empower you outside the therapy room.
Managing Stress, Anxiety and Low Mood
Chronic worry, high stress, and depression can affect daily functioning, professional performance, and physical vitality. Through specialized depression therapy Barcelona and anxiety-focused interventions, we establish clear goals to help you regain control over your life:
- Mapping cognitive distortions: Identifying patterns such as catastrophizing, mind-reading, emotional reasoning, or black-and-white thinking.
- Developing emotional tolerance: Learning mindfulness-informed practices and physiological grounding techniques to regulate the autonomic nervous system during acute anxiety.
- Behavioral activation: Gradually reintroducing fulfilling, values-aligned activities to counteract the emotional numbness, apathy, and isolation characteristic of low mood.
- Structured problem-solving: Breaking seemingly insurmountable personal and professional challenges into clear, manageable steps.
Therapy is paced collaboratively to ensure every step feels achievable, constructive, and respectful of your energy.
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Systemic Relational Therapy for Couples
Systemic relational therapy conceptualizes a partnership not simply as two isolated individuals, but as a living interpersonal system characterized by feedback loops, explicit expectations, and unspoken emotional rules. When recurring arguments arise, the issue is often less about the practical topic at hand and more about the underlying circular interaction patterns and unmet emotional needs within the relationship.
In relationship therapy Barcelona, we explore how each partner’s emotional history, past attachment dynamics, and communication styles influence current relationship patterns. Rather than assigning blame, systemic therapy helps both partners understand their interactive loop, enabling them to step out of unproductive conflict cycles and rebuild mutual trust, emotional security, and shared connection.
Couples often turn to systemic relational therapy to address:
- Repetitive, circular arguments that lead to emotional exhaustion or withdrawal.
- Difficulties navigating major life changes, such as moving abroad, career shifts, or starting a family.
- Rebuilding mutual trust, transparency, and closeness after emotional disconnection or infidelity.
- Balancing individual independence with genuine interpersonal intimacy.
- Disentangling relationship expectations from past family-of-origin patterns.
Through systemic guidance, couples transition from adversarial stances to collaborative problem-solving, building an empathetic relationship environment that supports both individuals.
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Individual Therapy for Expats and International Clients
Moving abroad brings exciting possibilities, but relocating to another country frequently disrupts established social foundations, daily routines, and personal identity. My specialized therapy for expats in Barcelona addresses the distinct psychological complexities of building a life outside your home country, providing empathetic, culturally attuned support to help you feel grounded and understood.
Many international professionals and expatriates experience a disorienting sense of isolation, imposter syndrome in international workplaces, or prolonged culture fatigue. In individual therapy Barcelona, we acknowledge the unique emotional weight of living between worlds, honoring your lived experience without requiring you to explain the basic reality of cross-cultural adaptation.
Building Self-Esteem and Navigating Life Transitions
Relocation often acts as a mirror, bringing dormant questions about identity, self-worth, and purpose to the forefront. Therapy offers a reflective space to:
- Navigate cultural adaptation and transition stress: Rebuild psychological safety and routine after significant geographical, social, or professional shifts.
- Strengthen healthy self-esteem: Detach self-worth from external achievements or language performance, fostering internal resilience and self-acceptance.
- Address identity and belonging: Harmonize who you were in your country of origin with who you are becoming in an international environment.
- Clarify boundaries and values: Identify your core priorities in work, friendships, and dating, establishing clear personal boundaries that protect your mental health.
Additionally, as part of my commitment to inclusive psychological care, my practice provides a welcoming, affirmative space for members of the LGBTQIA+ community, supporting the nuanced intersections between identity, cultural origin, and relational well-being.
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Couples Therapy for Intercultural Relationships
Intercultural relationships offer rich opportunities for mutual growth, yet navigating distinct cultural worldviews, communication nuances, and conflicting family traditions can create significant relational friction. In intercultural couples therapy Barcelona, we focus on bridging cultural and linguistic differences, transforming sources of misunderstanding into deeper mutual appreciation and empathy.
Cross-cultural partnerships frequently navigate divergent expectations regarding emotional expression, conflict styles, finances, work-life balance, gender roles, and family boundaries. When communication breaks down, partners may misattribute misunderstandings to personal flaws rather than differences in cultural perspectives. Through thoughtful mediation, we unpack these dynamics with mutual respect.
Improving Communication in Intercultural Couples
Effective communication across cultural differences requires moving beyond superficial translations to grasp the emotional subtext and core beliefs underpinning each partner’s perspective. In our sessions, we focus on:
- Decentering assumptions: Exploring cultural conditioning around family involvement, affection, problem-solving, and authority without judgment.
- Refining conversational patterns: Shifting from defensive reactions to curious, clarifying inquiries when language barriers or nuances cause misinterpretations.
- Establishing shared couple culture: Co-creating healthy, intentional relationship rituals and shared values that blend the best elements of both partners’ backgrounds.
- Constructive conflict management: Learning to navigate sensitive disagreements respectfully without emotional withdrawal or escalation.
By developing cultural and emotional attunement, your partnership can thrive as a supportive and resilient space where both identities are recognized and celebrated.
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Multilingual Therapy in English, German, Spanish and Dutch
Therapy requires subtle emotional nuance, and expressing complex vulnerabilities in a second language can sometimes create an unintended emotional barrier. As a multilingual therapist Barcelona, I conduct therapeutic sessions fluently in English, German, Spanish, and Dutch. This linguistic breadth allows you to express your inner thoughts naturally, using the vocabulary that feels most authentic to your emotions.
Language shapes how we construct thoughts, articulate distress, and access early memories. Whether discussing childhood experiences in your native tongue or finding precise words for complex emotional states, having a therapist who understands your language ensures that meaning is preserved without translation fatigue.
Online and In-Person Sessions
To accommodate demanding professional schedules, travel requirements, and varying locations, I provide adaptable therapy modalities tailored to your lifestyle:
- In-person therapy in Barcelona: Held in a quiet, confidential, and comfortable office setting, offering an intentional, focused environment dedicated entirely to your personal reflections.
- Online therapy for expats in Spain and internationally: Secure, confidential video therapy providing the same relational depth and clinical rigor as in-office sessions, accessible from your home or during professional travel.
Many clients benefit from a flexible, blended model—attending in person whenever possible and transitioning smoothly to online sessions when traveling or managing tight schedules.
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How to Start Therapy: Your First Session
Beginning therapy is an intentional commitment to your personal growth and well-being. The initial assessment session is designed to explore your current life circumstances, map out the primary difficulties you are encountering, and clarify your specific therapeutic goals. It is equally an opportunity for you to experience my therapeutic style firsthand, ask questions, and determine whether this collaborative space feels safe, productive, and aligned with your expectations.
You do not need to arrive with an organized clinical explanation of your issues. Simply sharing what feels burdensome, confusing, or painful in your daily life provides a clear, natural starting point for our work together.
Session Duration and Frequency
Therapy sessions are structured deliberately to offer an intensive, reflective, and focused space:
- Session duration: Sessions are typically structured around a focused 50-minute timeframe, providing dedicated, uninterrupted attention to your needs.
- Frequency tailored to your situation: Depending on the nature of your concerns, sessions are usually scheduled on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. We continually review your progress and adapt the rhythm of therapy as your self-regulation, clarity, and stability increase.
- Professional qualification and clinical rigor: With a PhD in Psychology (cum laude) and a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology (cum laude), over 14 years of international experience, university teaching credentials in cross-cultural psychology, and full accreditation as a licensed health psychologist in Catalunya (Psicóloga General Sanitaria), you receive qualified, evidence-informed care anchored in established ethical standards.
To learn more about session availability and process details, please reach out directly through the contact form below.
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Take the first step towards positive change, because your well-being matters. Reach out to discuss your needs or schedule your first session:
- Location: Barcelona (In-person) & Secure Online Sessions across Spain and Europe
- Languages: English, German, Spanish, Dutch
- Eligibility: Individual and couples therapy for adults (18+)
Please note: For urgent psychiatric emergencies or acute crisis situations, please contact local emergency services immediately (such as 112 in Spain) or visit the nearest hospital emergency department, as this practice does not provide 24/7 crisis intervention.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is individual therapy?
Individual therapy is a confidential, collaborative therapeutic process between a client and a licensed psychologist. It provides a focused, non-judgmental space to explore emotional challenges, reduce psychological distress such as anxiety or low mood, identify unhelpful behavioral patterns, and cultivate personal resilience, self-esteem, and clarity during difficult life transitions.
What is couples therapy?
Couples therapy is a specialized relational therapy designed to help romantic partners understand and resolve repetitive conflicts, improve interpersonal communication, and deepen mutual connection. Guided by systemic principles, it helps couples identify circular patterns, address emotional detachment, navigate intercultural differences, and rebuild trust in a balanced, supportive environment.
Do you offer therapy in English in Barcelona?
Yes. I offer complete psychological services in English in Barcelona, both in-person at my private practice and online via secure video platforms. Having trained and practiced internationally, I work routinely with English-speaking expatriates, international professionals, and multicultural couples who prefer communicating in English.
What is the difference between CBT and systemic therapy?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) concentrates primarily on the relationship between individual thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, providing empirical strategies to manage immediate symptoms. In contrast, Systemic Relational Therapy (SRT) focuses on interpersonal dynamics, family histories, and cultural environments, exploring how relationship systems shape current experiences and emotional well-being.
How long does therapy take?
The overall duration of therapy varies based on your personal circumstances, goals, and the complexity of the issues addressed. Some individuals and couples find meaningful clarity and practical tools within a short series of focused sessions, while others choose a longer therapeutic collaboration to address deeper systemic issues. Session frequency is always reviewed collaboratively.
Do you offer online therapy?
Yes. I provide secure and confidential online therapy for adult clients residing in Barcelona, across Spain, and internationally. Online sessions follow the exact same ethical guidelines and clinical methods as face-to-face appointments, offering flexibility for expatriates, frequent travelers, or individuals with demanding professional schedules.
What issues can individual therapy help with?
Individual therapy addresses a broad range of life challenges, including generalized anxiety, panic, depression, work-related burnout, relational difficulties, cultural adaptation, grief, perfectionism, identity questions, low self-esteem, and major life changes. It serves both to ease acute emotional suffering and to support long-term personal development.
How do I book a therapy session?
You can book an initial session or make an inquiry by submitting your details through the secure contact form on this website. Please mention whether you are seeking individual or couples therapy, your preferred language, and whether you prefer in-person sessions in Barcelona or online appointments.