• General Health Psychologist COPCV 11531
• Master’s Degree in Health Psychology
• Master’s Degree in Education and Rehabilitation of Addictive Behaviors
• Postgraduate Degree in Integrative Gestalt Therapy
• Degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences
• Teacher specialized in Physical Education
• International Training in Therapy through Adventure and Experiential Education

I am a dynamic person, with a lot of vital energy and a high commitment to what I experience. I am also empathetic, close and honest. With huge intellectual interest and for my almost continous questioning I enjoy reading a lot about psychology, philosophy, ecology and education. I love traveling without big luggage, going out in nature and camping in remote places whenever possible, hiking a lot and discovering new places, climbing, canyoning, snowboarding and diving, especially with my wife and children. Fascinating form me is to meet new people with their different visions and all their worries and life goals. My sense of work life has been since 2008 to implement Adventure Therapy in Spain. In this way, I am a precursor in the research, training and implementation of Adventure Therapy programs in Spain. I have the honor of being a founding member and coordinator of the European Network of Therapy through Adventure (ATE) and representater for Spain of the Adventure Therapy International Committee (ATIC) since 2008, and honorary delegateter since 2018. Since 2017 I am responsible for the Adventure Therapy Working Group of the COPCV. In 2020 we created the International Journal of Therapy through Adventure and in 2021 the first and only books of this methodology in Spanish were published. In 2020 I have embarked on this new adventure together with an extraordinary team, and I am already thinking about my next challenges!

• Degree in Psychology, clinical and health specialization
• Specialist in Brief Systemic Therapy
• Postgraduate degree in Animal Assisted Intervention
• Degree in Marketing and Commercial Management
• Postgraduate Degrees in Quality Management of Services, and in Banking and Wealth Management
• Training in Adventure Therapy and Experiential Education

I believe in superheros and I usually meet mine as soon as I get close to nature. Adventure therapy is a meeting point between two of my passions: people and nature. Challenges take us out of our comfort zone and make us grow: thanks to the Adventure Therapy team I am meeting those challenges day after day and that I am able to build myself moment by moment.

I am a psychologist under construction, constantly growing and learning. I worked in the economic world for many years and than changed heels for hiking boots. I started walking on new steps in my life, I trained in Animal Assisted Intervention and started working with children with functional diversity. Today I continue training, climbing mountains and swimming in rivers, without forgetting that every step and every stroke makes me be a superhero and meet other superheros.

• Undergraduate student in Psychology
• Postgraduate in Integrative design Psychotherapy
• Teacher, double major in Early Childhood and Primary Education
• Master’s Degree in Education and Rehabilitation of Addictive Behaviors
• International Training in Adventure Therapy and Experiential Education

When I think about what adventure therapy means to me, immediatly the experience that surrounds you and makes you resolve processes that otherwise would have remained hidden comes to my mind. It illuminates like a bright beacon in the form of personal awareness. Each of the trainings and projects in which I have participated while traveling through Spain, Croatia, Lithuania, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Greece, France, United Kingdom or Australia, have allowed me to learn from first class therapists in extraordinary natural environments. The most valuable thing, apart from the professionalization that is implicit in attending experiential training, is that you get to know yourself more and more in each traning. You are exposed to nuances that you could not (or did not want to) see before. From then on, you are touched by the experience and it is no longer possible to go back:

“A mind stretched by a new experience can never return to its old dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

• General Health Psychologist COPCV14289
• Master in General Health Psychology
• PhD Candidate in Health Sciences Program at the Catholic University of Valencia.
• Research work in the PsicAp Project: Psychology in Primary Care (Official College of Psychologists of Madrid and Psychofundation)
• Specialization in emotional regulation and emotional disorders

Adventure therapy is an intervention developed by mental health professionals that brings an experiential character to the therapeutic process that is very powerful in facilitating the process of change of the participants.

I have had the opportunity to work through this methodology in different national and international programs with adolescents and adults of different profiles (e.g. Autism Spectrum Disorder, Severe Mental Disorder, or young people at risk of social exclusion), in which I have been able to verify the power of intervening at the very moment in which conflicts arise, facilitating the proper management of situations and thus increasing the achievement experiences of the participants.

A key point that I observe in this methodology is that it accelerates the process of group cohesion, facilitating the generation of a solid support network that can sustain the group and provide the necessary confidence and security to initiate processes of change at the individual and group level.

It is very interesting to see how the participants are nourished by the learning obtained in the challenge experiences and how they strengthen their skills. It is a very enriching experience for both participants and facilitators.

• General Health Psychologist COPCV 15181
• Master in General Health Psychology
• Master’s Degree in People Management
• Master’s Degree in Secondary School Teaching (specializing in Educational Guidance)
• Youth Leadership Training (Czech Republic)
• Training in Adventure Therapy and Experiential Education

Adventure Therapy means for me to combine two of my passions, psychology and nature. I see AT as a wonderful oppertunity to connect with people and experience a process of change and/or growth. In my case, I have experienced it both individually and in groups, and both have great potential.The advantage over other interventions is that the person is in the natural environment and is an active agent of the therapy, lives their decisions and, in short, experiences the therapy in first person. These are not just words, but facts. I love to make experiences in nature, to take a break, calmly, without rushing. To enjoy life.

• General Health Psychologist COPCV 14589
• Master’s Degree in General Health Psychology
• Master’s Degree in Legal Psychology
• Master’s Degree in Education and Rehabilitation of Addictive Behaviours
• Training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

I consider myself as an enthusiastic, transparent and approachable person. The values on which I base my work are: I see the person as the center of every action that I perform (paying attention to their capabilities, virtues and potential), teamwork and spirit of improvement. I also believe in continuous training as a fundamental pillar for my professional development.

In my free time I like to enjoy time with my family, friends and nature in all its scenarios, play sports and read.

• General Health Psychologist CV15732
• Master’s Degree in General Health Psychology
• Specific Training in Adventure Therapy

• Graduate in Occupational Therapy
• Undergraduate student in Psychology
• International training in Adventure Therapy and Experiential Education
• 6 years as a Scout and 7 years as a volunteer with youth and people with disabilities

I see Adventure Therapy as an opportunity for growth and reconnection with the species we all carry within us. This methodology uses the great power of our natural environment to help us face our own challenges and learn how to bring us closer to a better quality of life.

• Degree in Social Education
• Degree in Social Work
• Master’s Degree in Education and Rehabilitation of Addictive Behaviors

Adventure Therapy gives me the opportunity to open new doors and show different possibilities when intervening with groups at risk and/or in vulnerable situations. It is a different methodology that allows to acquire tools from own experience, promotes personal growth and self-knowledge in a space of encounter with oneself, different from what we are used to.

• Degree in Psychology, Member CV 15382
• Master’s Degree in Psychological Intervention in Social Settings
• Training in Permanent Seminar of Therapy through Adventure

The contact with nature has always helped me to connect with myself, allowing me to know my limits and finding out that I am capable going further than I thought. In this process I met many people who felt the same way and a therapeutic modality that sought psychological results that I had already achieved. I was able to name my process, “Therapy through adventure” and it has been a path for me, not a goal, towards my discovery, self-knowledge and self-improvement.

• Bachelor of Science in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences
• Diploma in Teaching (specializing in Physical Education)
• Camp Director

After having experienced different adventures I have always reflected what they have brought me for personal growth. The first time I heard “Therapy through Adventure” I thought about the great potential it could have and that I would like to learn more. The brief relationship I have had so far with AT shows me what great possibilities it has and how much it can help people.

• Degree in Psychology, Registered CV 12090
• Master’s Degree in Clinical and Health Psychology
• Master’s Degree in Teacher Training, specializing in Educational Guidance
• Title of Camp Director and Youth Animator AJ1
• Horse Assisted Intervention Course

As living beings, we are made to live in a constant relationship with nature. The society we have built has distanced us from it, from its land, from its horizons, from its biodiversity… And in front of us there is a horizon of bricks, a world of asphalt that suffocates us and disconnects us from our roots. I believe that an important part of the psychological malaise lies in this, in not exposing ourselves to all that is waiting for us out there. Beyond the cities, beyond an increasingly digitalized society, there are endless possibilities to explore, landscapes waiting to be contemplated, challenges that put our mind and body to the limit, that can only be overcome by activating all our senses and feeling truly alive, challenges that far from blocking our energies and emotions, lead us to reach a harmony, satisfaction and security that can only be experienced.

In essence, this is for me what Adventure Therapy is all about, taking advantage of the resources that nature has at its disposal, while applying the tools that psychotherapy offers us. Connecting fully and consciously with the present moment, with the strength of its elements, its adversity, its calm… tracing the path that leads us to also connect with ourselves.

From a very young age I was able to experience part of all this through the Scout movement, initially from the playfulness and later as an adult, incorporating the path of personal progression and commitment to a better world, always seeking the path of the encounter between man and Earth.

These are the traces I want to leave behind me… and as a psychologist, I am passionate about the idea of being able to continue walking towards this ENCOUNTER to show it to others.