• Psychology graduate (University of Santiago de Compostela)
• Mental Health Counseling Master State University of New York – University at Albany
• Family Therapy and Systemic Interventions Postgraduate Escuela Vasco Navarra de Terapia Familiar – Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau de Barcelona
• Psychologist, family therapist and psychoeducator in “Wilderness Therapy” programs in the USA – Anasazi Foundations (Arizona) y Wingate Wilderness Therapy (Utah).

I was born and raised in Santiago de Compostela. Since i was young I learned to live and function in the mountains thanks to my scout group, where I acquired values ​​such as companionship, commitment and respect that are still part of me today. As a teenager, it was in nature where I learned to connect with myself and discovered my own potentialities that school and other environments did not allow me back then. As an adult, I was a volunteer monitor for several years, an experience that gave me the opportunity to continue growing and acquiring skills such as teamwork and assertiveness.

I travel a lot, although it never seems enough to me. I like the sun and the sea, appreciating the details in big things and finding solutions to the little inconveniences in life (and the big ones too). I am creative and resourceful. I try to make the world a better place.

I graduated in Psychology and completed postgraduate studies as an Expert in Family Intervention. I had the opportunity to enjoy a scholarship that allowed me to study a master’s degree in “Mental Health Counseling” in New York, USA, for a year and a half. This training deeply nourish me personally, academically and professionally.

My professional experience, both in Spain and in the US, revolves around the field of family therapy and mental health counseling, until I heard the magic words for the first time: “Wilderness Therapy” (Therapy in nature). Even without knowing very well what this type of therapy consisted of, at that moment I knew that it was the combination of my two passions: Psychology and nature.

I worked for a year in two “Wilderness Therapy” rehabilitation programs in the USA, as an educator/mentor and as a family psychologist. For many months, my job was to live with a group of troubled youth in the Utah desert. The profound transformation that this experience brought about in me, both personally and professionally, makes Experientia a personal project. What I had already learned as a child in the humid Galician forests through my experiences in the scouts, were confirmed in the arid places of the west: the therapeutic power of the natural environment and the connection with oneself through nature

If I have learned anything from these experiences, it is that “there is no growth within the comfort zone, nor comfort within the growth zone”.

My connection with Experientia arises from my determination to be able to implement Therapy through adventure in Spain. As technical coordinator of the entity, I give training and participate in the design and implementation of our projects with enthusiasm and a human team of great professionals and better people.