Approaches and Practices
Therapeutic Tarot
Tarot is approached as a symbolic and archetypal system that allows for reading internal configurations, existential tensions, and moments of transition. The images function as mediators of meaning: they do not predict events, but rather enable a reflective understanding of experience, illuminating dynamics that have not yet found conceptual expression. A central aspect of this work is the formulation of questions, understood not as a demand for fixed answers, but as an opening of thought. Asking the tarot simultaneously opens a broader field of inquiry, where an initial question gives rise to further possibilities and expands one’s perspective.
The practice also offers an expanded view of one’s own experience. By “laying the cards on the table,” a more comprehensive perspective becomes possible, allowing for distance, analysis of patterns, and the recognition of relationships between different aspects of psychic and existential life. In this sense, the playful dimension of tarot is not secondary, but essential: it introduces a mode of thinking that allows for experimenting with meaning, exploring possibilities, and reflecting on the “cards” one is playing in one’s own life. This symbolic and playful dimension fosters a more flexible, creative, and conscious relationship with experience, expanding the conditions for its elaboration and understanding.
Dream Analysis
Dream work is based on the idea that human experience is not exhausted by what can be consciously thought or narrated. In dreams, the psyche expresses itself through symbolic images and scenes that condense conflicts, desires, fears, and transformative movements that have not yet been fully processed. For Jung, dreams constitute a privileged pathway to the unconscious and serve an orienting function, revealing what the conscious mind cannot perceive or integrate at a given moment in life.
This work is conceived as an interpretive and reflective process, open to dialogue between the dream images and the client’s lived experience. It is not about applying predefined meanings, but rather about approaching the dream as an event of significance that can be explored on multiple levels. By relating dream life to everyday experience, dream work expands understanding of ongoing internal processes and supports, when the client wishes and remembers, movements of transformation and integration within the therapeutic process.
Therapeutic Writing
Writing is conceived as an act of translation: the passage from internal experience—emotions, intertwined thoughts, unresolved tensions—into a symbolic form that can be observed. In writing, what has been lived or perceived but not yet thought acquires structure, boundaries, and direction, becoming accessible to reflection. This shift allows for a distancing movement that supports understanding and processing of what is being experienced.
Within the therapeutic framework, writing functions as a tool for psychic organization and subjective guidance. Putting experience into words helps clarify the mind, recognize internal states, and outline a possible horizon, especially during moments of confusion or transition. At the same time, it opens a space for listening to a more authentic voice, aligned with one’s core affective self, distinguishing it from automated or external narratives. In this way, the practice of writing promotes the integration of experiences, emotional regulation, and the support of personal transformation processes.
Socratic Dialogue
It is understood as a practice of philosophical inquiry aimed at examining the assumptions that shape the way one thinks, values, and inhabits experience. Through questions, ideas, beliefs, and narratives are explored, these often function as implicit frameworks of interpretation, assumed without having been genuinely questioned.
This approach draws on the Socratic tradition of questioning as a philosophical exercise. In maieutics, the question does not seek to lead to a correct answer or convey external knowledge, but rather to destabilize hasty certainties and open a space for reflection in which thought can become more precise, conscious, and self-responsible. The dialogue functions as a process of conceptual clarification, allowing one to distinguish, define, nuance, and review what often appears in a confused, contradictory, or blocking form within one’s own experience.
Analysis of Philosophical, Literary, and Film Texts
Philosophical readings and cinema are used as tools of inquiry to support the reflective exploration of experience. Within philosophical consulting, these practices accompany personal processes of thought and clarification. They provide conceptual and symbolic frameworks that help situate lived experiences and consider them more broadly, without reducing them to fixed interpretations or normative models.
Philosophical texts are approached as interlocutors, offering languages to explore conflicts, tensions, and existential questions. Modern and contemporary philosophical traditions open us to deep inquiries, for example about personal power, responsibility in decision-making, the construction of existential meaning, or how the self is shaped in relation to discourses, norms, and social practices. At the same time, other currents, such as phenomenology, existentialism, and ancient philosophies, offer tools to think about embodied experience, lived time, finitude, desire, and practices of self-care, all directly connected to everyday life.
Eastern and Indigenous traditions are also integrated as theoretical and symbolic frameworks to engage with experiences that exceed the usual registers of consciousness. They provide languages and structures of meaning for liminal states, processes of subjective transformation, and expanded awareness. Cinema and literature complement this work through narrative and symbolic language, linking the sensible with the conceptual. Stories and images stage ethical dilemmas, subjective crises, and transformative processes that resonate with one’s personal life story. This approach allows reflection to emerge from the questions and connections evoked by the narratives, rather than from technical analysis. Together, philosophy, literature, and cinema serve as practices of inquiry that support reflective work, meaning-making, and a broader, situated, and critical understanding of personal experience.
Mindfulness meditations
Mindfulness practices are part of a broad and diverse set of meditative techniques aimed at training attention and transforming the way experience is structured. There are different modalities, focused attention, open monitoring, somatic regulation practices, and introspective meditations, that work on various dimensions of consciousness, from attentional stabilization to the understanding of ongoing mental and affective processes. Within this framework, meditation is not conceived as an isolated relaxation technique, but as a systematic tool for observing and clarifying experience.
Within this spectrum, special emphasis is placed on attention to the breath and the practice of Vipassanā. The breath serves as a privileged anchor for attention: a continuous, immediate, and non-conceptual bodily phenomenon that stabilizes the mind and fosters sustained presence. Building on this foundation, vipassana observation deepens direct awareness of sensations, thoughts, and emotions as they arise, training a non-reactive and discriminating perspective on mental processes. This type of practice supports the development of cognitive clarity, emotional regulation, and a more lucid relationship with the contents of consciousness, allowing for the integration of different levels of experience without becoming entangled in them.
In a therapeutic context, these meditations function as tools to recognize automatic patterns, reduce reactivity, and support processes of integration, especially in situations of stress, anxiety, or emotional overload. Mindful attention does not aim to immediately change experience, but to transform the way it is inhabited, enabling a more stable, conscious, and discerning mode of presence in relation to whatever arises.
Guided Symbolic Meditation
These meditations are aimed at processing experiences, emotions, and internal processes that cannot always be addressed through conceptual thinking. The practice begins with a phase of relaxation and mental quieting, which allows habitual automatic patterns to be suspended and attention to be directed toward a more sensitive awareness of subjective experience.
Next, a guided visualization unfolds, working with images and symbols of an archetypal nature, specifically chosen according to the stage of the process and the individuality of each person. In this state of focused attention, the guidance is offered through carefully formulated questions, not intended to elicit fixed answers or predetermined interpretations, but to open a space for experiential exploration. The participant responds to what emerges in the experience itself, enabling the surfacing of associations, emotions, and insights that may not appear in ordinary reflection.
This approach is particularly useful for releasing stagnant emotional states, processing intense experiences, and integrating meaningful experiences. By working in a symbolic and experiential register, these meditations support processes of subjective transformation and the reorganization of the inner world.
Regression to Past Experiences
This work involves guiding a return to scenes, images, or experiences that emerge as significant during the process. What surfaces may relate to different moments in one’s personal history or take on broader symbolic forms, and it is approached in terms of its resonance with current experience.
Regression can be understood as a specific modality within the previously mentioned meditative and symbolic practices, in which attention is directed toward narratives, sensations, and representations connected to the past. In some cases, these scenes relate to biographical experiences; in others, they appear as accounts of past lives. Beyond questions of factual truth, what matters is how these scenes organize meanings, emotions, or patterns that remain active in the present.
The work is oriented toward the elaboration and understanding of what manifests from the current position of consciousness. By revisiting these experiences with greater resources, perspective, and insight, it becomes possible to reframe them and establish new relationships with what could not previously be understood. In this way, regression supports a re-reading of one’s personal history (real or symbolic), allowing for the reorganization of meanings, the release of persistent emotional blocks, and the integration of aspects of experience that had previously remained split.