I am Chilean, psychotherapist and artist and I have been living in Bristol for ten years. I started my training as an adult clinical psychologist in Chile where I received courses and internships deepening in a systemic approach and family therapy. My first work was with adolescents, adults with severe mental health diagnoses and also with children separated from their caregivers and placed in Residentials homes. These experiences were pivotal and shaped my subsequent years professionally. I moved to the UK in 2014 to complete an MA in Fine Arts and my thesis was about contemporary art, feminism and trauma. I then completed a foundational course in systemic psychotherapy at the University of Bath while working as a psychotherapist for Irmo (Indoamerican Refugee Migrant Organisation) supporting Latin American migrants to access mental health services in the UK. The birth of my first daughter inspired me to train as a Play Therapist in 2017 with PTUK and since then I have worked in primary schools and nurseries accompanying children from 4-11 years old therapeutically.

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My passion is using the language of play, the arts, symbols and other creative methodologies to support children and their families in the difficulties they face. I have worked in individual and group therapy with children in primary schools and in my private practice.

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I continue as an adult psychotherapist and my approach has evolved towards client-centred therapy (Carl Rogers). While I integrate systemic and narrative modalities, my training as a creative therapist has provided me with multiple tools that I can offer my clients, be it mindfulness techniques, therapeutic stories, art, and Sandplay. Over the years, I have discovered that the body is a central part of therapeutic work, which has led me to deepen my training in Polyvagal Theory and Trauma.

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My experience as a migrant woman and mother has allowed me to process the changes, challenges and transformations in identity that this entails. Living far from my homeland, living in a second language, raising children in another culture has allowed me to accompany other people, children and families navigating the experience of being a foreigner and immigration.