Andrea Fajardo

I was born and raised in Colombia. I started studying Chemical Engineering driven by the fear of not being able to sustain a life with a career humanistic career. However, the deception was short-lived and a crisis led me to realize that I had to follow my intuition and my heart. I studied Psychology and there I found what would be my professional and personal frame of reference: the Existential-Humanistic approach, a psychotherapeutic approach where the human being is considered unique, free, relational and with resources to transform what limits them. A couple of years after graduating, I found a space where to deepen the therapeutic accompaniment from this perspective, completing a Master's Degree in Psychology with a focus on Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (Universidad del Norte – SAPS). I began my work as a psychotherapist in 2014, accompanying children, adolescents and young adults in my private practice, hand in hand with an interdisciplinary team made up of neuropsychologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, speech therapists and other clinical psychologists. These experiences allowed me to realize that the therapeutic relationship is the basis for any healing process, and the importance of understanding the human being from an integral place, both from his individual dimension, as part of a series of systems (family, friends, school, community, etc.). In 2020 I traveled with my partner to Barcelona, in search of quenching a thirst for new challenges and opportunities as a family. On a professional level, I was realizing that awareness from the mind was not being enough to generate profound changes and that I was taking for granted one of the resources that accompany us from birth until we die: our body. I did a Master's Degree in Individual and Group Integrative Humanistic Psychotherapy (Carl Rogers Institute) and I am currently finishing the second of four years of training to be certified as a Core Energetics therapist with NICE.