Photo report: UPAD Psychology and Coaching, a reference in Madrid

The origin of the UPAD Psychology and Coaching dates back to 2009 at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where two Psychology students sports began their Master's internship at a prestigious sports club in the Community of Madrid.

Since then, Fernando Callejo and Charles King they would not separate their paths again, officially founding the UPAD Psychology and Coaching in the summer of 2014. Gone are the projects as independent psychologists in the sports field, participation in the sports psychology unit of the UAM, the Human Resources consultancy and the consultations individual. The personal and professional development center that we know today was born in Madrid, to accompany people in the difficult task of “turning their problems into challenges”.

With this approach extracted from Positive Psychology and Coaching, they began to form an interdisciplinary team of professionals, helping their users to face situations of very diverse nature (sports, work, studies, personal, social, sexology, clinic, etc.), seeking to optimize their levels of performance, well-being and satisfaction with the life.

How does the UPAD team work?

The UPAD team is organized around the joint assessment of the different needs posed by its users, so that after a free initial consultation, to be able to determine what type of professional on the team is best qualified to accompany each user in their development process.

Located in the center of Madrid, they have extended their scope of action thanks to the advantages offered by new technologies, offering their innovative and particular work methodology both in person in the capital, and online to people from inside and outside our borders.

As psychologists, UPAD professionals do not trust endless therapies and for this reason, they set themselves the goal of helping people who come to the center to pursue their goals. challenges, acquire responsibility for their own development and achieve in the future the ability to regulate themselves autonomously in the face of upcoming challenges, previously empowering them to it.

At UPAD Psychology and Coaching, they conceive each person as a complex system, made up of various gears that represent the different areas of relevance to their lives (personal, sentimental, social, family, educational, professional, etc.), in each of which, moments or situations may arise throughout its development, which pose difficulties for the proper functioning of the entire system. mechanism.

To achieve this, they evaluate the different areas of relevance of each user who comes to the UPAD, in order to be able to determine what type of techniques and strategies are convenient to use, that favor self-knowledge, acceptance and overcoming the different situations that may be traversing.

Each period presents its challenges, which is why they offer their psychological care and development services in all the stages that make up life, from children, adolescents, adults, couples, families and greater.

The areas of psychological intervention

At UPAD they focus on finding the lowest common denominator that underlies the different fields or contexts of psychological intervention that we can find. in practice, in order to be able to optimize a series of objectives, which correspond to the large areas of work that psychology addresses, finding among them:

• Our behavior (manifested in the performance we obtain in the different spheres that make up our lives).

• Our feelings (expressed in terms of the well-being or absence of it, that we experience on a daily basis).

• And our thoughts (responsible for our level of satisfaction).

Intertwining these wickers, they can be addressed as the true responsible for our states of frustration, mistrust or fear, among others, in various types of situations, such as:

• The person who does not trust his ability to adequately address his relationships with others.
• The professional who is having a hard time at work because he does not feel motivated, recognized or directly does not feel that he fits in with his colleagues.
• The athlete who finds it difficult to face the competition with performance guarantees sufficient or similar to those found in practice during training.
• The dancer or musician who finds it difficult to control their states of tension derived from her auditions and concerts.
• The student or opponent who spends sleepless nights before exams and tests.
• The boy who has a hard time assimilating a breakup or dealing with his relationships with girls and vice versa.
• The self-demanding person who gets frustrated before starting their projects due to their high expectations.
• Those who want to increase their self-knowledge and achieve higher levels of autonomy in managing their person. Wherever there is a challenge, UPAD seeks a way to accompany these people in the development of their self-control, focusing on those aspects that they can truly control.

Psychology and Coaching

The focus of the UPAD professionals is oriented to combine the application of different types of therapeutic techniques who come from the field of Psychology and Coaching, to adapt to the specific needs presented by each of the users who come to the center.

Going through more basic approaches, based on training in psychological skills management strategies for people who present a lower level of knowledge in this regard, to a less directive approach, with a desire to explore new possible scenarios of action, more based on the Coaching.

Courses and training

Another of the most characteristic aspects of UPAD is its commitment to training and excellence, offering both face-to-face and online training through its website, in all kinds of environments (sports, academic, professional, personal), pursuing different objectives such as prevention, awareness, skills training and development among others.

Special mention deserves his involvement in the curricular practical training of university students from various universities in the Community of Madrid (UCM, UNED, URJC, CUCC, UPC, VIU, etc.) of which they have been external tutors for more than 10 years and in a timely manner, with other universities outside our borders.

The informative task

The UPAD team is very aware of the importance of transmitting knowledge, make Psychology known to both the specialized public and the general public, serving as a "speaker" of its work methodology (in its own training courses psychologists) and various articles on different topics related to Psychology through the blog of his website (one of the most active in the networks).

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