SELECTED EXPERIENCE, TRAINING AND PRESENTATIONS FROM RECENT YEARS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Consultant for Humanitarian Staff (EAP) / Consultant – The KonTerra Group
Independent Professional / Freelance
May 2024 – Present

Project Manager – Culture of Caring – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
February 2026 – August 2026 (7 months)
Locations: Training of Trainers programmes in several countries, including in-person training in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.

People-Centred Approach – Psychosocial Programmes / Supportive Relationships in Care – Médecins Sans Frontières Spain
Full-time
May 2023 – August 2026 (3 years 4 months)
Locations: Central African Republic, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, among others.

Mental Health Activity Manager – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
March 2021 – March 2023 (2 years 1 month)
On-site
Locations: Refugee camps in Uganda, the Darién Gap in Panama, and Liberia.
Responsibilities: Management of projects focusing on mental health, sexual violence, migration, HIV and epilepsy.

Clinical Psychologist – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
June 2020 – December 2020 (7 months)
Location: Palestinian Territories.
Responsibilities: Psychological assessment and short- and medium-term psychotherapy at the MSF clinics in Nablus and Qalqilya, delivered both in person and remotely.

University Lecturer – Faculty of Psychology, Universidad del Salvador
July 2016 – December 2019 (3 years 6 months)
Location: Buenos Aires and surrounding areas, Argentina.
Courses taught: Basic Psychological Processes, Psychological Assessment II, and Applied Psychology I and II (Psychoanalytic orientation).

Clinical Psychologist – Unión Personal / Accord Salud
May 2016 – June 2019 (3 years 2 months)
Location: Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Psychotherapist – Outpatient Clinic, Institute of Health Insurance for the Armed Forces and Security Services (IOSFA)
June 2014 – June 2019 (5 years 1 month)
Department: Psychiatry.

Psychotherapist – Family Violence Team, Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic
June 2014 – June 2019 (5 years 1 month)
Responsibilities: Psychological assessment and psychotherapy within the Family Violence Service. Responsible for training and research in gender-based and sexual violence (SGBV).

Psychologist – Pedro de Elizalde General Children's Hospital
May 2015 – December 2015 (8 months)
Department: Family Violence Service.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE - Most relevant 

Master's Degree in Psychology – University of Genoa (Università degli Studi di Genova)
Genoa, Italy
January 2024
Recognition of the degree originally awarded in 2013.

• Professional qualification / licence to practise as a psychologist (Grade: 90/100).

Master's Degree in Cultural Anthropology – University of Perugia (Università degli Studi di Perugia)
Perugia, Italy
September 2022 – November 2025

• Dissertation: Faces of Violence: A Critical Ethnography of Mental Health Practices in Humanitarian Contexts of Violence and Conflict.

Postgraduate Intensive Training Programme in Mental Health with Migrants, Minorities and Socially Excluded Groups – University of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
October 2021 – December 2022

• Dissertation: The Islamic Spiritual Experience of Palestinians in the Context of Migratory Grief.

Advanced Postgraduate Certificate in Ethnoclinical Mediation – Sagara School of Ethnopsychiatry
Tuscany, Italy
April 2021 – December 2021

• Dissertation: Principles of Ethnopsychiatry Applied to Psychotherapy and Cultural Mediation in Palestine.

University Teaching Qualification – Postgraduate Teacher Training Programme, Universidad del Salvador
Buenos Aires, Argentina
March 2016 – December 2017

Two-Year Specialisation in Psychological Assessment and Diagnosis – Universidad del Salvador
Buenos Aires, Argentina
March 2014 – December 2015

• Dissertation: Assessment of Treatment Progress in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder: A Case Study.

Postgraduate Programme in Public Health and Violence – University of Buenos Aires (UBA)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
March 2014 – December 2014

• Dissertation: Professional Resistance in Working with Survivors of Domestic and Gender-Based Violence.

Bachelor's Degree in Psychology – Universidad del Salvador
Buenos Aires, Argentina
March 2009 – December 2013

PUBLICATIONS

Co-author of the book: O Inconsciente Colonial da Psicanálise (The Colonial Unconscious of Psychoanalysis). Editora Discurso, Brazil (2025).

• Chapter: Solange Faladé: The Anti-Colonial Path to Lacan.

Presentations at International Psychology and Psychiatry Conferences

Specialist contributions on sexual violence, mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings.

• “Mental Health and Epilepsy in Humanitarian Settings” – 74th Annual Meeting of the Spanish Society of Neurology (2022).

• “Differential Diagnosis Using Projective Techniques in Adolescents with Intentional Self-Injurious Behaviour” – 21st Argentine Congress of Psychodiagnostics (2017).

• “Institutional Victimisation of Adolescents Who Have Experienced Sexual Abuse” – 31st Argentine Congress of Psychiatry (2016).

• “The Impact of Sexual Abuse on Adolescents: An Exploration Through Projective Techniques” – 19th Argentine Congress of Psychodiagnostics (2015).

• “Family Violence: Institutional Detection within the Armed Forces” – 30th Argentine Congress of Psychiatry (2015).

• “Family Violence in the Argentine Armed Forces” – 16th World Congress of Psychiatry, Madrid (2014).