Luis Ordaz Perez

I graduated in 1985 as a Licensed Psychologist with a Major in Psychodynamic Clinical Psychologist and a minor in Counselling Psychology at the Central University of Venezuela. Before graduation, I was hired to be a psychotherapist to help in the development of a Community Therapeutic in the South East of the Country, where my career as a Psychologist officially started. I returned to Caracas. The capital city of my country after two years and engaged in a formal training with the Psychoanalytic Association of Venezuela, after having two years of mostly Lacanian lectures in my school of Psychology. From there, I worked with Juveniles, delivered psychoanalytic play therapy under the supervision of the most renown child psychoanalysts in my country. Then, I ventured into the realms of private practice, teaching and school counselling, including enrolling in a specialisation that I was unable to finish as I was offered a government scholarship to foster my education in the United States, just when I was writing my specialist Thesis, which I never got the chance to present. I spent four years in the States and got my Master in Clinical Psychology and got the chances to do besides my practicum training, a year of work as a Psychologist for different organisations, including a substance a users rehabilitations centre in Detroit. I returned to my country and rediscovered my passion for teaching at University level, becoming a lecturer in Medical Psychology for the years priors to leaving the country for England; in here my work with the NHS allowed me to be a better psychologist and a better human been; someone capable of connecting at the most deep level with people as people and not as problems; something that my previous clients recognise a s super power in psychotherapy. Now, I am quite mature with a long way already travelled but with few more people to meet and few more lesson to learn.