Humanistic Psychotherapy · Barcelona
I have lived through the collapse of my own structures and I know the freedom of starting to inhabit one's own skin.
I accompany people through processes of personal reconstruction and identity crisis. My intention is that you rediscover your own resources to live with authenticity, listen to yourself fully, and learn to care for yourself without losing yourself in others. This inevitably opens the way to a more creative and spontaneous way of living.
Discover my approachAbout
My story as a therapist begins in the aseptic isolation of a Romanian neonatal ward. Before I had words, my nervous system had already learned a pattern: how to inhabit emptiness. I grew up in a house where my father's emotional state set the weather of every room. I became a radar. I learned to read the weight of a silence, the specific vibration of a voice before it broke.
For many years I worked to appear capable and at ease in the world while inside an anxiety I rarely named hummed beneath everything. For a time, substances were the only truce with my nervous system. At thirty-one, my life is the daily practice of integration: learning to stay in my body when the old impulse to leave appears.
I come to this work as someone who has navigated the collapse of his own structures. My work begins from one conviction: we were wounded in relationship and in relationship we can heal. That is why I offer a space where mind and body work together, within a safe bond.
Areas of work
I accompany the most authentic parts of ourselves that we push to the margins to keep functioning. The tension that accumulates in the body, the visceral impulse to hide, the exhaustion of holding up a fortress when the foundations are trembling.
Trauma doesn't always take the shape of a dramatic event. Sometimes it's an absence, a silence, a pattern learned before there were words. I work with the body that still reacts to something that happened long ago.
I work with trauma through the Somatosensory body model and the Polyvagal model, paying attention to how the autonomic nervous system organizes defense responses and how they can be completed safely.
With humility, I have enough awareness to know when to refer. For sexual trauma or complex PTSD requiring a more specialized approach, I have a trusted network of professionals I can refer you to.
I know the background hum of an anxiety that was never quite named. The radar that doesn't switch off, the permanent vigilance. We work for the nervous system to learn that the danger has passed.
I struggled with anxiety throughout my own life. I know it in the body, in patterns of relating, in the way one anticipates the world before anything has happened. Accompanying you from that place has a different texture than a protocol.
The exhaustion of holding up a façade when the foundations are trembling. The emptiness behind an outer life that works. I offer a space where that trembling is allowed to exist.
My experience in the corporate world gives me a direct understanding of burnout: performance as identity, productivity as the highest value, the collapse that arrives when the system can no longer hold. I recognize the syndrome because I have seen it from within, and I know the difference between what can be sustained and what is asking for real change.
Substances and compulsive behaviors are survival strategies — desperate attempts to find safety when the world feels too loud or too empty. I approach them with respect, not judgment.
I struggled with several addictions myself. I speak about this from knowing what it is to need an exit when the body is exhausted by another way of being. That path lets me sit with you in that place without judgment.
When the process requires pharmacological intervention, I have a network of trusted psychiatrists I can refer you to.
Self-sufficiency and emotional distance as the only home one has ever known. I work specifically with those who use independence to protect themselves from the fear of being truly seen.
Avoidance is a learned response in an environment where real contact had too high a cost. The work is to slowly reduce that cost, without forcing an openness the system is not yet ready to hold.
The territory where psychology and meaning meet. For those who feel that their suffering also has an existential dimension, and that healing passes through recovering some form of connection to something larger than the self.
I have eleven years of personal practice in Buddhism and Dzogchen — one of the oldest contemplative traditions of Tibet, oriented toward the direct recognition of the nature of mind. That practice and the therapeutic work grow from the same root.
Couple conflict is rarely about what it seems to be about. Underneath every argument there are two nervous systems trying to find safety. I accompany couples in stepping out of the fighting loop to find what is really being asked for.
I work following the guidelines and teachings of Sue Johnson, a pioneer in attachment-based couple therapy. Her framework helps me identify the relational cycles that trap couples and create the conditions for a safer, more genuine connection to emerge.
Writings
Currently available in Spanish. Read in Spanish or contact me if you'd like to receive an English version.
Contact
I know how hard it can be to send the first message. You don't need to have everything clear or find the exact words. If you feel the moment has come, write to me.