You’ve been fighting an exhausting war against your own distress.

What if peace is not found in victory, but in the willingness to feel?

We know that deciding to start therapy is a considered step for you. As an analytical person, you seek both a solution and an understanding of the process, the methodology, and the evidence that supports it. You want to ensure that your investment of time, energy, and resources is directed toward an effective path with a clear structure.

This page is designed precisely for that:

To give you a transparent and detailed view of our services, how we work, and what you can expect from a therapeutic process at Synde Psicología. Our commitment is to cutting-edge psychology, and that begins with clear communication.

The core of this approach is the model of psychological flexibility, defined as the ability to fully and consciously contact the present moment and, depending on the situation, either change or persist in behavior that serves one’s chosen values. In other words, it is the skill of ceasing to fight against your internal experiences and beginning to act as the person you truly want to be.

Our therapeutic approach: the science of psychological flexibility

In couples therapy, we work using EFT

At Synde, we don’t apply a collection of isolated techniques. Our work is structured around an integrated and transdiagnostic therapeutic model: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). “Transdiagnostic” means that we don’t focus on diagnostic labels (anxiety, depression, OCD) but rather on the underlying psychological processes that, according to scientific evidence, are the common roots of most human suffering.

To achieve this, the therapeutic process focuses on training, in a practical and experiential way, six fundamental skills:

Acceptance

The process of actively opening up to emotions, thoughts, and sensations—even the most uncomfortable ones—without trying to suppress or control them. It is not resignation; it is a radical “yes” to experience, to stop wasting energy on futile battles.

Cognitive defusion

Learning to observe your thoughts from a distance, recognizing them as passing mental events (words, images), not literal truths or commands you must obey. This reduces their power and impact on your behavior.

Contact with the present moment

The ability to intentionally and flexibly anchor your attention in the here and now. Cultivated through mindfulness exercises, it is the antidote to ruminating about the past and worrying about the future.

Self-as-context

Connecting with a stable, observing sense of self—an inner “space” from which you can watch thoughts and emotions pass by without fusing with them. It is the “chessboard” that contains the game without being affected by it.

Values

A process of exploration to clarify what truly matters to you in life (e.g., being a caring partner, a creative professional, taking care of your health). Values are not goals, but directions that guide your actions moment to moment.

Committed action

Setting concrete goals based on your values and carrying out flexible patterns of behavior to reach them, even when psychological barriers such as fear or doubt arise.

Individual Therapy for Adults

This service is designed as a space for growth and support for adults with a high level of self-awareness who, despite their capabilities, feel stuck. It is for you if you seek a rigorous and pragmatic psychology to face challenges such as anxiety, excessive worry, depressive symptoms, or the feeling of going through a life crisis.

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Couples Therapy

Our couples therapy service is designed to help you restore emotional connection at a deep level. We understand that often the real issue is not the differences themselves, but the problematic interactions that arise when we don’t feel safe in the relationship and cannot communicate authentically. This is a safe space to explore those negative cycles and rebuild your bond on a foundation of greater awareness and security.

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Therapy for Adolescents

This service provides a space of support, trust, and confidentiality designed specifically for the unique challenges of adolescence. It is aimed at young people dealing with academic pressure, social anxiety, intense emotions, family conflict, or questions about their identity. We understand adolescence as a crucial stage, and our goal is not to “fix,” but to empower and strengthen.

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Areas of application of our model:

Therapy for Anxiety, Phobias, and OCD
Therapy for Depression, Grief, and Life Crises
Therapy for Relationship Issues
Therapy for Chronic Pain and Chronic Illness

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

Individual Therapy for Adults

This service is designed as a space of growth and support for professionals and adults with high self-awareness who, despite their abilities, feel stuck. It’s for you if you seek a rigorous, pragmatic psychology to face challenges such as anxiety, excessive worry, depressive symptoms, or the feeling of going through a life crisis. We understand the pressures of high-demand professional environments and offer support that addresses distress while equipping you with tools for a fuller, purpose-driven life.

In our sessions, you’ll find a collaborative space grounded in deep human warmth and unwavering scientific rigor. Beyond relieving symptoms, our goal is for you to develop greater psychological flexibility so you can navigate life’s complexity with more wisdom and freedom. Together, we’ll work so you can stop fighting your inner world and start investing your energy in building a life aligned with your values, regaining direction and vitality.

Couples Therapy

Our couples therapy service is designed to help you restore emotional connection at a deep level. We understand that often the real issue is not the differences themselves, but the problematic interactions that arise when we don’t feel safe in the relationship and cannot communicate authentically. This is a safe space to explore those negative cycles and rebuild your bond on a foundation of greater awareness and security.

In the heart of this rebuilding process is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). This proven model allows us to go directly to the root of disconnection to heal the attachment bond. We work to decipher the language of your emotions and the dynamics that keep you stuck. The goal is to transform your interaction, moving from cycles of attack and defense to a place of authentic vulnerability and empathy. We aim to create a new kind of conversation where both partners can finally feel seen, heard, and validated by one another.

Through this deep emotional work, we achieve transformative results for relationships:

  • We create a secure, resilient connection, strengthening the bond to withstand future challenges.
  • We foster empathetic dialogue, where vulnerability becomes a source of strength and intimacy.
  • We deactivate destructive patterns, enabling you to respond to one another in new, constructive ways.

To sustain this new emotional connection, we integrate tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a third-wave approach with strong empirical support. While EFT heals the heart of the relationship, ACT provides the skills to manage the problematic thoughts and feelings that stand in the way of creating the relationship you want. This dual approach—combining emotional depth with psychological flexibility—is what makes our method so effective and comprehensive.

Therapy for Adolescents

This service provides a space of support, trust, and confidentiality designed specifically for the unique challenges of adolescence. It is aimed at young people dealing with academic pressure, social anxiety, intense emotions, family conflict, or questions about their identity. We understand adolescence as a crucial stage, and our goal is not to “fix,” but to empower and strengthen.

In therapy, we establish a working alliance with the adolescent, creating an environment where they feel safe to express themselves without judgment. The focus is on providing practical and effective tools to better understand themselves, manage distress in healthier ways, and begin making decisions aligned with the person they are becoming. The result is an adolescent with greater resilience, self-esteem, and the resources needed to navigate this stage of life with greater calm and awareness.

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Therapy for Anxiety, Phobias, and OCD

The therapeutic goal at Synde Psicología is to radically increase your capacity to act in a valuable and meaningful way in their presence. We understand that the real problem is not the initial emergence of anxiety, phobic fear, or obsession, but the exhausting struggle against them and the behaviors derived from that struggle: the avoidance of situations, compulsive rituals, or constant rumination.

This internal war keeps you trapped, making symptoms the center of your existence and imprisoning your ability to decide freely.

Our approach proposes a scientific and liberating alternative:

Instead of struggling, we teach you to change your relationship with that inner world that troubles you. Through practical and experiential training, you will learn to distance yourself from catastrophic or obsessive thoughts and to make space for the physical sensations of panic without them dominating you. It is about developing psychological flexibility that allows you to feel the urge to perform a ritual, the fear of flying, or the restlessness of anxiety, and still choose your actions according to your values, not your symptoms.

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Therapy for Depression, Grief, and Life Crises

When life seems to lose its color and the future looks gray, whether due to depression, the pain of grief, or a life crisis that questions your foundations, the experience is often the same: a state of profound disconnection from the sources of meaning and purpose.

The mind tends to get anchored in rumination about the past or in thoughts of hopelessness and self-criticism. Withdrawing from the world and abandoning activities, though understandable responses to pain, end up maintaining and deepening this state, creating a vicious cycle that is difficult to break.

The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy approach to these states of disorientation is not a simple invitation to “think positive,” but a pragmatic and compassionate process of rebuilding meaning. The work focuses on reconnecting, deliberately and gradually, with what is genuinely important to you, even within your new reality.

Instead of waiting for the pain to pass or the motivation to appear, we help you act to forge a new path, taking small steps based on your values—actions that, however modest they may seem, act as an engine that progressively restores your sense of vitality.

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Therapy for Relationship Issues

Suffering in relationships often stems from patterns of automatic reactivity, a kind of dysfunctional “dance” in which we get caught, whether with our partner, family members, or friends. A comment, a gesture, or a situation can activate internal emotional “triggers” (fear of abandonment, feeling unvalued, anger) that “hijack” us.

When we are fused with these emotions, we act in ways that, ironically, damage the connection we deeply desire: we criticize, defend ourselves, distance ourselves, or demand, perpetuating cycles of conflict.

To break these cycles, our approach integrates cutting-edge models such as Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

  • El first step is always to “map” the conflict cycle to understand the dynamic that traps you and the deep emotional needs that are not being met.
  • El second step, which is key, focuses on equipping you with the individual skills to manage your own internal reactions. It involves recognizing that, while you cannot change the other person, you can learn to change your own steps in the dance and better understand the steps and defenses of the other.

This work helps you take charge of your inner world and show up in the relationship in a more conscious, open, and constructive way.

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Therapy for Chronic Pain and Chronic Illness

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy has an especially strong scientific evidence base in the field of chronic pain. We understand that living with persistent pain is an exhausting experience due to the physical sensation itself, and the layer of added suffering generated by the mental struggle against it: frustration, hopelessness, fear of the pain increasing, and sadness over the lost life.

This constant battle consumes an immense amount of resources and, paradoxically, can intensify the perception of pain.

The focus of therapy, therefore, is not the elimination of pain that is chronic, but a radical strategic shift: to improve your quality of life and reduce the interference of pain in your daily life. Instead of focusing life on controlling pain, we help you focus it on your values.

The goal is to learn to live a full and meaningful life despite the pain, reorienting your energy from a battle lost from the start toward building what is possible and valuable to you.