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Reference in Emotional Systemic Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents, and Families

Mercedes Bermejo Boixareu is a health psychologist specialized in childhood, adolescence, and family, and currently a doctoral candidate in Emotional Systemic Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents at UNED. She is a key figure in Spanish psychology, being the founder and director of Psychologists Pozuelo and ESEUPE, as well as directing the Sentir Publishing House and the magazine Psychology for All. She also presides over IMSIS (Madrid Institute of Systemic Child and Adolescent Therapy) and is a member of the Board of Directors of FAPyMPE. As an author of several books and an international speaker, she is noted for her teaching work and her active collaboration in the media.

Specialist in Grief, Loss, and Trauma
José González Fernández is a health psychologist specialized in grief, loss, and trauma. With a career spanning over 20 years, he has supported more than 24,000 mourners and implemented grief groups in over 250 hospitals. He is a lawyer and holds a degree in Political Science and Administration. He combines his clinical and teaching activities with coordinating the grief program of Psychologists Without Borders and directing Apertus Psychologists, where he also works as a psychotherapist, supervisor, and mentor. He was awarded the Lafourcade-Ponce Prize 2011 and the Diploma from the Official College of Psychologists 2017 for his outreach work. He is the author of Grief: Growing Through Loss (Editorial RBA) and co-author of Accompanying in Grief (Editorial Desclée de Brouwer).

Specialist in Gender Violence, Trauma, and Attachment
Olga Barroso Braojos is a Spanish psychologist expert in gender violence, trauma, and attachment. With extensive experience, she coordinated specialized resources from the City Council and the Community of Madrid for women survivors of abuse for thirteen years. Currently, she works at her own center specialized in intervention based on Attachment and Trauma theory. She is a trainer, supervisor of intervention teams, and author of key books such as Ni Rosa ni Azul, Los Pájaros Arcoíris, and El amor no maltrata; and she is the coordinator and instructor of the Expert in Psychological Intervention with Victims of Gender Violence program at the Official College of Psychologists of Madrid, a training course delivered in more than 10 editions.

Pioneer of the Emotional Key in Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy
Esteban Laso Ortiz is a clinical psychologist and Doctor in Social Psychology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Graduated with a clinical specialty, he complemented his training with a Master's in Family Therapy and another in Cognitive-Social Therapy. With over 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist, he is the creator of the Emotional Key, a trans-theoretical proposal that seeks to add depth to all therapeutic approaches. He combines his practice with teaching, being a professor at the Tzapopan Institute and a research professor at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. He is the author of Deep Experiential Therapy (2022) and Comprehensive Guide to Supervision in Psychotherapy (2020), focusing his research on emotion, socioeconomic trust, and its integration into clinical emotional work.

Specialist in Grief, Third Generation Therapies, and Health Psychology
Dany Blázquez is a Spanish health psychologist specializing in grief, third generation therapies, and health psychology. Author of the book Make Room for Pain, he leads his own clinical team and combines clinical, teaching (at UNIR), and outreach activities in mental health. With an integrative approach that merges cognitive-behavioral foundations with third generation therapies, he has dedicated his career to helping people navigate grief in a tender, kind, and hopeful manner. His approach aims to make distress manageable, promoting compassion and patience.