My Approach
My education and the perspective I utilize in my clinical and professional practice are based on the Constructivist approach.
This approach considers that every person has their own personal and unique way to attribute a sense and meaning to their experiences. In this way they actively construe the “reality” their live in, instead of passively observing and be subjected to it.
Psychological disorders emerge when the person is confronted with different alternatives which, through their lense, are all equally unfeasible. The feeling is not being able to move anywhere because every single choice is impassable and the tools they have are useless.
Constructivist Psychology is a path which gives the experiences new meanings, creating movement from the point where the person is stuck. The aim is to construe new paths that are more useful and functional to face the situation that the person experiences as “the problem”. Those ways have to be feasible according to the person, from their personal point of view and through the lense they use to make sense of the world.
The role of the constructivist psychotherapist is to accompany the person through this process of re-attribution of meaning and construction of new possibilities. This is done through attempting to see the world through the eyes of the client, using their dimensions of meaning and suspending the views of the therapist.
The therapeutic relationship represents the channel of this process: the therapist is the expert of the changing, the person is the expert of their meanings, feelings and problems. We can imagine this relation as a laboratory where, together, it is possible to conduct new experiments in the therapy room to test the efficacy and utility of new ways of thinking before applying them to daily life where, usually, it is more complicated to change.
Constructivist Psychotherapy is relevant for all people (adults, adolescences, children, couples and families) and it takes place in 50 minutes sessions, usually once a week. The duration of the process is not predictable in advance and is negotiated with the client along the path.
The cost of any session is negotiated between the therapist and the client at the beginning of the work.