Therapy is not a technical service or an act of faith. It is an encounter between people, where care, truth, and awareness intertwine to open a space where something new can emerge.
In my practice as a Gestalt therapist, there are three pillars that uphold every process I accompany: the critical destigmatization of “atypical” experiences, an ethical Gestalt therapy grounded in shared reality, and a trust in embodied experience as a therapeutic compass.
1. To Destigmatize Is Not to Deny: Acknowledging and Taking Responsibility for Difference
To speak of mental health in this day and age implies taking a stand. Many people arrive at a consultation carrying labels—diagnoses that name their suffering from the outside—with a mix of relief and condemnation. In my work, I do not ignore these labels, but neither do I turn them into an identity.
To destigmatize does not mean to deny the existence of what hurts or is unknown. On the contrary, it means being able to look at it without loading it with judgment or fear. It is not about eliminating the category of a “disorder,” but about restoring its human dimension, asking ourselves what function that symptom serves, what it is trying to express or protect. And it is also about accompanying the person in taking responsibility for their way of being in the world, without being diluted by the diagnosis or victimized by it.
Responsibility—understood as the ability to respond—is key to this approach. I accompany processes where difference is not pathologized, but neither is it romanticized. Because only when we are able to acknowledge what is there, without denying or embellishing it, can we open ourselves to real transformation.
2. Living Ethics: A Space with Reality, Without Agendas
I work within a framework where ethics is not a list of good intentions, but a living practice. This implies upholding a space free from dogmas—be they religious, political, or therapeutic—without falling into a relativism where “anything goes.”
Therapy is not neutral, but it does require a shared symbolic framework. A common ground where we can recognize each other without demanding adherence to a pre-existing discourse. That is why, although I respect every person’s right to express their beliefs, my commitment is to offer a space free from ideological agendas, where no political or religious narrative is imposed.
The therapeutic field is an intersubjective space, not a platform for activism. I accompany personal struggles, without placing the therapeutic process at the service of external causes or other interests.
Upholding this boundary is fundamental for the encounter to be truly ethical: a place where we can listen to each other without masks, without agendas, and without having to fit into any dominant current. Working with shared reality—the body, language, limits—is part of these ethics. Because without common ground, there is no field. And without a field, there is no possibility of true contact.
3. Body, Presence, and Embodied Experience
In a culture that privileges the discursive mind and often disconnects from the body, trusting in embodied experience is both a clinical and an ethical act. The body is not just a channel of expression; it is the place where experience is anchored, where the unsaid manifests, and where the possibility of contact often begins.
I work from a place of bodily listening, attuned presence, and the subtle registration of gesture and tone. Because it is there that the truth often appears before it does in words. The body does not need to justify its signals. It only asks to be heard.
This pillar is also articulated with an aesthetic of the bond: a relational sensitivity that allows one to register when there is attunement and when something is out of sync. It is not about applying techniques, but about inhabiting a rhythm, a melody, a presence—a way of being available without invading.
A Practice in Service of What Is Real, Not of Agendas
These three pillars—critical destigmatization, relational ethics, and trust in experience—shape a therapeutic practice oriented toward care, truth, and respect for the complexity of what it means to be human.
I accompany people, not categories. I care more about what happens between you and me than about the labels you may bring. And if there is struggle, pain, identity, or transformation, let it arise from the encounter, not from an agenda.
Because, in the end, what we need most is not to be defined, but to be heard without the contact being disguised. And that, in my experience, is the most therapeutic thing that exists.
