Since adolescence, I have been interested in the inner world and what gives rise to suffering. That interest took shape through academic, clinical, and personal paths before settling into psychotherapy with a psychoanalytic orientation. During the final years of my psychology degree, I encountered psychoanalysis directly, through my own analysis, and it reshaped how I understood psychological experience.

I studied psychology at the Complutense University of Madrid and completed a PhD in Women’s Health in migration, acculturation, and how femininity and masculinity shape identity, gender, and well-being. 

Years of research into women’s mental and physical health, intimate partner violence, substance use, trauma, and the roles of sex, gender, and sexual orientation left me increasingly aware of a tension I couldn’t resolve through science: the demand for objectivity sits uneasily alongside subjectivity, my own included. That tension is part of what drew me toward one-on-one clinical work, a shift shaped as much by my own psychoanalytic exploration as by my research.

My journey has also moved across countries: Romania, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Canada. Living between these contexts has shaped both my clinical and research work, particularly around questions of identity, belonging, and transition.