Mindfulness-based therapy uses present-moment awareness as the primary tool for growth and wellbeing. We slow down and pay attention to what's happening right now — in your thoughts, your emotions, and importantly, in your body.

That last part is key. Modern neuroscience has shown that a lot of what we carry emotionally — stress, anxiety, habitual patterns, unprocessed experiences — doesn't just live in the mind. It lives in the body: in the way we hold tension, the way we breathe, the signals we've learned to ignore. This capacity to sense what's happening inside is called interoception, and it turns out to be one of the most direct routes to self-understanding and to changing the patterns that no longer serve us.

During a session, you'll be encouraged to focus on your present experience for brief moments, typically lasting a minute or less. So all you need to do is to be able to cultivate a sense of calm and centeredness to observe your own reactions.

Throughout these moments, I will observe your nonverbal cues, including your tone of voice, movements, gestures, posture, facial expressions, and micro-expressions. I will then share these observations with you, inviting you to explore them with openness and curiosity through self-reflection.

Traditional talk therapy and cognitive-behavioral approaches work primarily through thinking, reflection, and verbal processing — and they have real value.

Mindfulness-based therapy works from the inside out. Instead of talking about your experience, you're invited to notice it directly — the subtle tension in your chest, a shift in your breathing, a feeling that arrives before you have words for it. This tends to be more efficient, and often reaches things that years of conversation haven't touched.

When sessions are in-person, I might incorporate touch, such as placing a gentle hand on your shoulders, to aid in your self-study process. However, not all sessions will involve touch, and I will always seek your consent before any physical contact. It's important to note that any touch from the therapist is purely for therapeutic purposes and it never carries sexual intention.

Not at all. People come for all kinds of reasons — working through grief or mild anxiety, navigating a life transition, improving relationships, or simply wanting to understand themselves better and feel more at ease. You don't need a diagnosis or a crisis to benefit from this work.

That said, it is also well-suited for people dealing with situations that are causing them a lot of suffering or where other approaches haven't quite worked.
It’s important to notice that this work does not substitute clinical care. You should always follow the guidelines of your medical team. In case of emergency, call 112.

For most people, yes. The heart of this work — guided mindfulness, body awareness, focused attention — translates well to video, and many clients find it easier to settle into their own experience from the comfort of a familiar space.

In-person sessions open up the possibility of therapeutic touch (always consensual, always with clear intent), which can be a useful additional support in some situations. But for the majority of the work, online and in-person sessions are comparable in depth and effectiveness.

Yes. Living abroad — even when it's a life you've chosen and love — can quietly surface things that don't always have space to appear otherwise: a loss of familiar anchors, shifts in identity, the subtle pressure to "be fine" far from your support network. What looks manageable from the outside can carry real weight on the inside.

And as someone who has spent over 20 years living and working across four continents, I understand this particular kind of in-between experience from the inside. Working with internationals, expats, and people navigating cultural transitions is something I bring both training and personal familiarity to.

Hakomi is the specific method at the foundation of this practice. It's a mindfulness-based psychotherapy developed in the 1970s by Ron Kurtz alongside a community of American and Canadian psychotherapists.

Hakomi integrates Eastern philosophy (particularly Taoism and mindfulness), behavioral neuroscience, and humanistic Western psychology.

In practice, Hakomi provides the ethical and methodological framework for how I work.

All three share similar foundations — the understanding that the body holds emotional experience, and that growth and change happen through awareness rather than analysis.

Somatic Experiencing (Peter Levine) and Sensorimotor Therapy (Pat Ogden, who trained in Hakomi) both center primarily on trauma. Hakomi is broader — equally useful for personal growth, self-discovery, relationship patterns, life transitions, and any moment when something feels stuck and you're not quite sure why.

Sessions can be held in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.