EMDR con EUGE

Psychologist & EMDR therapist

Who I am

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My bio

I’m a psychologist and an EMDR therapist. I’ve worked in mental health for over fifteen years, in clinical practice, emergencies and humanitarian settings.

I work with people going through trauma, anxiety, panic attacks and burnout, in Spanish and in English.

I see patients in Buenos Aires and online. Half of my patients live outside Argentina: professionals working remotely, people who have migrated, Argentines living in other countries. Often English ends up being the language we understand each other in, even when it isn’t the first language of either of us.

Much of my work has been with people far from home: Syrian families resettled in Córdoba, migrants at the border, and colleagues from many countries in the Red Cross.

I hold a Master’s in Psychology of Emergencies, and I trained in child protection at the University of Strathclyde. For three years I was National Coordinator of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) for the Argentine Red Cross.

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Fifteen years

My career

Today

Today I work in private practice, in Buenos Aires and online, and I collaborate with networks of psychologists responding to emergencies across the region.

3 years

Before that, for three years I was National MHPSS Coordinator for the Argentine Red Cross. I trained more than seven hundred people across the country in psychological first aid, suicide prevention, mental health in emergencies and team care. I worked in child-friendly spaces on the border, with migrants and refugees, with people living on the street and with older adults. I spoke at the Global Mental Health Summit, on caring for mental health at work.

Before

Before that I practised at NeuroCare, a leading centre for EMDR and neurotherapies in Buenos Aires.

Pandemic

During the pandemic I was part of the psychosocial support team at Córdoba’s Emergency Operations Centre (COE), accompanying the volunteers of the operation, and I worked at an assistance centre for people living on the street. Alongside that I took part in a research study on migration in Latin America and the Caribbean, and I taught health personnel on diversity and human rights.

Clinical

I also worked at Sanatorio Privado Alta Gracia, in clinical practice and with inpatients.

3 years

For three years, with UNHCR, I accompanied Syrian families resettled in Córdoba after the war.

Beginnings

Before all of that I worked with victims of crime at the Victim Assistance Service of the Ministerio Público Fiscal, at a day hospital with people with substance use problems, and at stimulation centres with children and young people with disabilities. I taught in rural schools, at secondary level and in university teacher training, and ran prevention workshops in primary schools.

2017

I began training in EMDR in 2017, and I’ve applied it ever since, both in clinical practice and in those settings.

Training

My training

  • Licenciada en PsicologíaUniversidad Católica de Salta
  • Profesora Universitaria de PsicologíaUniversidad Católica de Salta
  • Master’s in Psychology of EmergenciesUNTECH
  • Specialization in Child ProtectionChildren separated from or unaccompanied by their caregivers. University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Migrants and Refugee ProtectionUniversidad de Buenos Aires
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  • Postgraduate Diploma in Management, Leadership and Political ActionUniversidad Siglo 21
  • EMDR trainingEMDR Iberoamérica – EMDR U.S.A.
  • Specialist in Trauma, PTSD, Continuous Acute Stress and War Trauma
  • Clinical supervision and continuing education

Registrations

Credentials and memberships

  • Check my licence (opens in a new tab)Anyone can look me up in Argentina’s national registry of health professionals (REFEPS), by name or licence number.
  • Member of EMDRIA and EMDR Iberoamérica Argentina
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