I am currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark (with Anthony Fernandez and Sarah Bro Trasmundi). I´ve also held a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Granada (with Manuel Heras Escribano) and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of the Basque Country (with Arantza Etxeberria & Xabier Barandiaran).
My research focuses on embodied approaches to cognition and mental health, with a particular emphasis on enactive approaches to psychotherapy. It is organized around three main axes:
First, I investigate the relational and process-oriented foundations of enactive theory to engage with classical debates in the philosophy of science, particularly concerning the nature of mental disorders. This work explores how mental health conditions can be understood as dynamic, context-sensitive processes rather than fixed categories.
Second, I study the role of affective atmospheres—that is, subtle, often pre-reflective, room-filling emotional experiences—in shaping therapeutic change. I develop the concept of therapeutic atmospheres as part of a broader inquiry into how environments influence health and well-being.
Third, I coordinate and support practice-based research in Gestalt Therapy at both European and national levels, integrating empirical insights from therapy practice with theoretical frameworks.
Philosophically, my work is informed by complex and dynamical systems models of psychopathology and psychotherapy, phenomenological psychiatry, and Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of individuation. My goal is to integrate these perspectives into a comprehensive enactive framework that deepens our understanding of psychotherapy and mental disorders.
