PROFESSIONAL BIO

From Mental Health to the Reichian Divan & EcoHealth

The beginning of my professional career, a result of my training in psychology and sexology, took place between 1979 and 1983. - In the private sector, collaborating with Luis Mayor and Fina Sanz, professors from the Faculty of Psychology, in my own center, and within an interdisciplinary health team at the "Center for Integral Medicine and Mental Hygiene" in Valencia. - In the public sector, in the Health Department of the "Centro Social del Grao," with the aforementioned colleagues and other professionals. This was one of the first places where psychologists began providing care in the public sector, primarily for sexual and psychosomatic disorders.

In 1984, having completed my training as a specialist in Character-Analytical Vegetotherapy (Orgone Therapist) at the European School of Orgonotherapy (SEOR), I opened my own clinical space which for some years has been called the "Center for the Ecology of Human Systems of Valencia" where I develop my professional practice in its two aspects:

A) Clinical therapy, using Character-Analytic Psychotherapy, both in crisis management and in its focal form (Character-Analytic Brief Psychotherapy, BCP) and in its in-depth form (Structural Character-Analytic Vegetotherapy, SCT). This therapy is applied individually and/or with couples, depending on the level of conflict, and can be complemented, in some cases, with group sessions. B) Conflict prevention and resolution, throughout the entire parenting process, within the couple and family. All of this is done in collaboration with other specialists.

To spread and teach…

In 1982, I started publishing articles for the Spanish Newspaper El País and giving conferences as well as workshops and introductory courses on the life and work of Wilhelm Reich, on body psychotherapies, on how to prevent the body armor, human sexuality and other more clinical subjects. My work started in different venues from the city of Valencia in Spain, among them, at the headquarters of the Official School of Psychologists.

Over the years, I have extended my teaching activities to other Spanish cities and European countries (France, Austria, Finland, Italy). I have also been involved in international congresses; the first one took place in Buenos Aires in 1992 (Somatoterapia). That same year, I taught a course in Córdoba, Argentina and some years later, in 1995, I trained students in Río de Janeiro, Brasilia, Natal and San Francisco (USA). In 1996, I visited Boston and one year after, in 1997, it was Mexico, Montevideo and Sao Paulo the places where I developed my teaching activities. Since that year, I have been invited to different European and Latin American cities for workshops, conferences and trainings.

I have published more than fifty articles and several books in Spanish and Portuguese. The first book, entitled Contacto, vinculo y separación (Contact, bonding and separation), was published in 1994. The last one until today entitled “Psicotérapia caracteroanalitica. Una intervención somatosíquica individual, grupo y parejas” was released in 2020.