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Daniel Blazquez.

Psychologist Specializing in Grief, Third Generation Therapies, and Health Psychology

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.

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About Daniel.

Career and Professional Contributions
Born in Cádiz in 1994, Dany Blázquez holds degrees in Psychology and Social Work, with a Master's in General Health Psychology and a Master's in Criminology and Victimology. Additionally, he has specialized training in therapeutic intervention in grief, third generation therapies, and civil, family, and community mediation.

For years, he worked in various media (press, radio, and television), until in 2022 he was able to combine his two vocations: care and communication. His complementary training includes strategies for therapeutic bonding, psychological keys in gender-based violence, psychological first aid, anorexia nervosa, and procedures for action in social services.

As the author of the book Make Room for Pain, Dany Blázquez offers a refreshing perspective on grief, understanding that it is not only the emotional processing of human loss due to death but also any type of loss, including material losses such as losing a job, a home, or even a breakup. His book provides tools to understand the function of unpleasant emotions in grief processes, to make love and values emotional anchors, to dispel myths about death, and to build kind farewell rituals.

As a communicator, he regularly collaborates with media outlets such as Onda Cero, Revista Lecturas, Podimo, La Vanguardia, Radio Nacional, ElDiario.es, laSexta Noticias, The Ana Rosa Program, Cadena SER, Ni que fuéramos shhh, Radio Marca, Telemadrid, and El Español, among others. On social media, he has a community of nearly 100,000 followers with whom he shares information about mental health.

His professional practice is characterized by offering communication and emotional management strategies, both in individual therapy and in family therapy or mediation, helping people to understand and manage emotional issues and interpersonal relationships appropriately.

Career Path

Training and experience.

Psicólogo Sanitario colegiado
Grado en Psicología
Máster en Psicología General Sanitaria
Máster en Criminología y Victimología
Especialista en intervención terapéutica en duelo
Experto en terapias de tercera generación
Especialista en mediación civil, familiar y comunitaria
Autor del libro "Hazle un hueco al dolor" (Penguin Random House)
Docente universitario en la UNIR
Director de equipo clínico
Colaborador habitual en medios de comunicación
Divulgador en salud mental con casi 100.000 seguidores en redes sociales