The new Cepsim Psychology Center on Avenida América (Madrid)

The Cepsim Center for Psychology and Trainingopens a new office in the Salamanca district, in the Avenida América area, spacious and bright and with warm and equipped facilities for families, couples and individual therapy. It consists of five offices and availability from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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The Cepsim Psychological Center

Cepsim is one of the centers with the longest trajectory and projection in Madrid; It has been serving for more than 30 years and has been growing, with 16 professionals making up the team.

This opening is included within a set of centers where around 250 people are currently cared for, with the most frequent problems such as depression, anxiety, phobias, vital crises, among others, including those that present more difficulties to go to the clinic such as addictions or personality disorders.

The experience of these years has made us reflect on the human being, its peculiarities, recognizing that all people need similar things, that help us to grow and develop but not in the same way, and how psychological problems appear when this does not occur in a favorable direction for U.S.

For this reason, we trust in a holistic, integrative work that considers the person as a whole that works together: your body, your mind, your emotions, your relational and social environment; and that it has to be treated as a whole and not only from a single perspective.

Thus, we are committed to an integrating team where there are psychologists trained in varied theories and techniques, from the most classical to the most novel: cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, humanistic and gestalt therapy, systemic therapy, EMDR, among other This allows our professionals to have an overall vision, to intervene on various levels.

In addition, our experience has confirmed that people are not affected in the same way by the same things and this is also true with psychological techniques. In our work, we therapists adjust to the patients and not the other way around; in order to adapt the treatments to the needs of each person in the most effective way.

Therefore, from the first interview, we select the professional who can best fit each case, and the patient can choose to change if he wishes.

This flexibility is achieved thanks to the variety of trainings that are an essential requirement for Cepsim psychologists, who have ongoing internal training in the latest advances in psychology, and their commitment is to continue updating their knowledge. In fact, the Cepsim team has its own track record in scientific and popular publications.

Services

At Cepsim Avenida de América we offer different services such as individual therapy, in person or online, for adolescents and adults, couple therapy, Mindfulness training, training for health professionals and internships for Master's degree students in Health Psychology, from different universities. What's more, several of our therapists speak other languages, currently having therapy in English and French.

About therapies

At Cepsim we are specialists in various disorders and psychological problems such as anxiety, phobias, depression, family and relationship problems, eating and sexual problems, addictions, traumas, grief, anger control, personality disorders, grief, phobias, abuse, emotional dependence, psychological support for the LGTB community among others problems. We also conduct orientation in different processes and decision making.

But in this presentation, we want to highlight our Trauma Specialized Unit. When we have experienced a specific trauma (sexual abuse, bullying or mobbing, or mistreatment, natural disasters) or we suffer trauma in childhood; there is information stored in our mind, which, since it cannot be integrated in an adaptive way, remains emotionally active, causing all kinds of symptoms and discomforts in the present, when apparently everything is going good in life.

For this we have and combine traditional therapies with state-of-the-art psychological techniques and procedures, very effective at when it comes to reducing the emotional load so that the information is integrated in a more adaptive way by processing that information information; such as EMDR, hypnosis, re-scripting, narrative therapy, the Internal Family System, or dissociation treatment models. So the team has extensive knowledge and experience of post traumatic stress and dissociation.

We are aware that this can only occur when it is established a quality therapeutic relationship, based on trust, respect, authenticity and acceptance Without judgment. Many patients come to the consultation with shame, fear, rejection or guilt, when telling what ails them. So we try to make therapy a safe and empathetic space to address their problems. In this sense, we attach great importance to the relationship that is established between each therapist and each patient, which collaborate together seeking recovery as the main goal, seeking relief from suffering in all its slopes.

Also we are aware that each person is uniqueTherefore, the treatment is personalized, that is, adjusted to each person, to her needs and demands, and taking into account her history, her character, her personal situation when she attends. People who come to change their behavior do not require the same therapy as those who want to understand who they are.

Sometimes it will be necessary to assess the impact that thoughts and behaviors have on a person's life and relationships, so that you can change them effectively.

Other times it will be more important to give space to his emotions, to what the things that happen to him mean, or to understand why he behaves like this instead of repeating automatisms.

For all these reasons, therapists have a flexible attitude regarding their theoretical techniques and models, since the priority is the well-being of the patient. The results are expected and visible in the short term, they generate greater authenticity and enjoyment, as well as expand the resources that we all have to face the different challenges that life puts us through in front of.

Training services

The Cepsim Psychological Center offers a Mindfulness workshop open to all public. Through their practice, people learn to stay in the present moment, paying attention to the here and now, becoming an observer, in order to be fully aware, and not be dominated by emotions or thoughts overwhelming. Recently members of the team have published a guide to guide their practice.

We attach importance to the performance of the professional team as a whole, which is why we hold periodic supervision meetings of clinical practice, where All members of the team participate constantly, a space attended by interns of the Sanitary Master of Psychology, coming from different universities.

What's more, several members have developed their clinical work in public health agencies, such as hospitals, violence care centers, mental health centers both in Spain and abroad.

Publications

We consider from Cepsim, that it is very important to spread psychology, so we have a blog with more than 200 articles written by our team and also we have the project of publishing books on different topics, last year we published a book on Mindfulness and a small manual on mindfulness will be published shortly. anxiety.

Also with the aim of disseminating different aspects of psychology, the coordinators and other psychologists of the team participate frequently in the written, digital and radio press; conducting interviews, reports or specialized opinion consultations on various topics in different current media and specialized magazines.

The coordination team of Cepsim Avenida América

This new center is coordinated by Oceanía Martín Recio and Candela Molina Gutiérrez, both general health psychologists, with extensive training and experience.

Oceania Martín Recio She attends to problems related to the emotional world and early traumas, a specialist in Third Generation therapies, she is trained in approaches from Gestalt therapy, System of Internal Family, EMDR (Eye Movement Processing) or Mentalization-based Therapy, and also has tools such as Sandbox and First Aid Psychological.

She is co-author of the book Mindfulness for everyday life and one of the trainers of our Mindfulness workshops. She is always looking for the improvement and well-being of her patients, and she continues to train in new ways of doing therapy to alleviate psychological suffering.

Candela Molina Gutierrez She has been trained in Psychoanalysis, Cognitive Behavioral Psychology, Traumatology and her preferred focus is the Humanist Psychotherapy, with which she accompanies her patients to achieve greater authenticity and coherence internal; tackling the corporal, emotional and rational together. She specializes in recent trauma and post-traumatic stress.

She serves victims of gender violence, child abuse and trauma; She is an expert in Clinical Hypnosis, and was trained in other techniques such as EMDR, Trauma Re-telling or Trauma Re-scripting. In addition, she frequently collaborates in scientific research on various topics.

In addition, the new center has a team of experienced psychologists who, from the philosophy that we have described, always seek well-being and personal development.