The work
The work I do is relational and focused on pattern. I don't run intake checklists. I don't assign homework. I pay attention to what happens in the session. The moments when something shifts or goes flat. The pattern that keeps showing up underneath the problem. Most people already know their own story. They still keep landing in the same place. What's missing is someone watching in real time, someone who can name what you cannot see from inside it. More on how I work, and how I work with couples.
The arrangement
I am a US-trained psychodynamic therapist working online and privately. No Spanish license. No public-system involvement. No diagnosis on any record. You pay directly, in any currency. The schedule flexes around remote and freelance work. Evening sessions are easy to set up across time zones. If what you need is meds, testing, or covered care, the Spanish system handles that, and I will say so directly.
What people bring to online therapy
The people I work with in English come for a wide range of reasons: anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, anger management, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, loneliness, self-esteem issues, procrastination, sleep problems, attachment patterns, self-sabotage, perfectionism, identity questions, and existential concerns. Online counseling makes this work possible from wherever you are, whether you need an English-speaking therapist, a virtual counselor, or simply someone who can work in your language at a depth that matters.
How it works
Sessions are online via secure video call. I work with individuals and couples (60 minutes). Before your first session, we have a free 15-minute call to see if this feels like the right fit for you.
What Barcelona brings to therapy
Barcelona runs on the dream of itself. The city, the beach, the lifestyle. That dream draws the region's biggest digital-nomad and remote-work scene. Plus the startup crowd, the students from abroad, and the lifestyle migrants. What I see most is the gap between the version you moved for and the one you are living. The passing-through crowd, where everyone is leaving in six months, so friendships stay shallow. The freelancer's background hum of not-quite-safe. The Instagram life, and the private loneliness under it. The slow recognition that paradise did not fix the thing you brought with you, because it never could.
The staffing math behind the waiting room
Spain's public system employs roughly five to six clinical psychologists per hundred thousand inhabitants, a figure Spanish professional bodies themselves describe as far below need. In Barcelona that shows up exactly where you would expect: referral through the family doctor, a wait, and then short, session-capped interventions delivered in Spanish or Catalan. Care also varies by autonomous community, since Catalonia runs its own version of the machinery. The national picture is on my Spain page.
The private market fills the gap, and in Barcelona's international districts it prices accordingly: sessions commonly run 80 to 120 euro, with English-language work at the upper end. If you go this route locally, the credentials to look for are the regulated Spanish titles, Psicólogo General Sanitario or Psicólogo Clínico, held by someone registered with a Colegio Oficial.
I hold neither title, on purpose, because I am not a Spanish practitioner. I am a US-trained psychodynamic therapist working privately online from outside the Spanish system, for people who want the depth work rather than the local paperwork.
Where I fit in Barcelona
Barcelona has one of the largest and most visible international communities in Europe, which means English-language therapy options exist here, more than in most Spanish cities. The Spanish public system still carries waits and works in Spanish or Catalan by default, and for sustained depth work most internationals go private. The wider picture is on my Spain page.
What I offer is specific: depth and character work, complete privacy with no Spanish record, one consistent therapist, and no wait. If that is what you are looking for, the size of the local scene is beside the point.
Questions people ask from Barcelona
Selected research on this approach
My work is psychodynamic and depth-oriented. These are some of the studies on the effectiveness of that kind of therapy. They describe research on the method in general, and are not claims about any individual outcome.
- Shedler, J. (2010). The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 65(2), 98-109. doi:10.1037/a0018378
- Steinert, C., Munder, T., Rabung, S., Hoyer, J., & Leichsenring, F. (2017). Psychodynamic therapy: as efficacious as other empirically supported treatments? A meta-analysis testing equivalence of outcomes. American Journal of Psychiatry, 174(10), 943-953. PMID 28541091
The full reading list is on the approach page.