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CBT Psychotherapist | Online therapy in English and Spanish | Supporting you through change and self confidence

27/01/2026

🌀What happens when we start setting boundaries with people around us?

🤔 Before we start, setting boundaries does not mean being agressive. It also doesn't mean imposing our opinion or dominating all spaces.

It means saying 'no' when we don't agree, being assertive with behaviours we don't feel comfortable with, and not saying 'yes' to everyone and everything.

When people are used to us being constantly compliant and agreeable, they might at first struggle to understand our new way of presenting to them.

🖐🏽 Silent treatment, passive-agressiveness, withdrawal or emotional blackmail do not mean we should stop being assertive (again, NOT AGRESSIVE).

It might take some time to adjust or it might even mean that we need to make a decision of whether that relationship is helping us or not.

👀 I see this in therapy so frequently. Clients/patients start setting boundaries and consequently, their systemic relationships change.

I keep talking about the importance of the context, and this means, again, that it's not only us, our 'problem' and our goals, it's also our whole context that is involved in our life/therapy processes.

24/01/2026

✨️REGRESIÓN EN MIGRANTES✨️

La regresión es un estado en el que las personas vuelven a ciertos estados mentales, emocionales y de comportamiento que quizás fueron necesarios en el pasado.

¿Sientes que no eres tú? ¿Que te comportas como tu 'yo' del pasado?

Esto ocurre en variedad de contextos, y el migrantes se hace más evidente al conectar con nuestras raíces. Ya sea al presenciarse físicamente en un lugar que fue 'casa', o al conectar de otra manera, e.g., videollamadas con ciertas personas o hablar nuestro idioma.

⁉️¿Qué puedes hacer? 👉🏽 Conecta con tu yo del presente:
- Habla con personas de tu presente
- Haz actividades de tu presente
- Anclaje a través de tus cinco sentidos: observa tu alrededor y nombra 5 cosas que ves, 4 sonidos que oyes, 3 cosas que puedes tocar, 2 cosas que puedes oler, 1 cosa que puedes saborear.
- Anclaje a través de tu identidad: busca objetos que te conecten con tu vida ahora
- Anclaje: añade orientación temporal. Escribe "Estoy en 2026, tengo ____ años, estoy en ____ (lugar)." Describe tu vida presente

🔴 Esto no es una sustitución de terapia psicológica. Cada persona es diferente, por lo que estas orientaciones pueden no ser adecuadas para todas las situationes. Un proceso terapéutico adecuado requiere individualización de cada caso.

📧 Para atención y apoyo individualizado, escríbeme sin ningún tipo de compromiso 👇🏽 veronicapireztherapy@gmail.com

23/01/2026

✨️SURVIVING CONSUMERISM✨️

Snippet of a conversation on fast-paced environments, target driven, and their impact on mental health.

This applied specifically to work environements, but the reality is that consumerism is so extended that has been normalised in many cultures in most areas. Education, leisure, social and interpersonally.

By normalised I mean it's taken as the norm, and it's not being questionned or challenged. I've spoken about time management vs energy management before and how the concept of time management developed.

If we see humans as 'resources', we might put their humanity at risk and ignore human needs.

The fact that being always busy, always consuming and always distracted is normal, doesn't mean it's healthy.

We cannot change a whole social system overnight, but we can see what individual changes we can make, so that we don't lose ourselves while still belonging in a sociocultural context.

👉🏽Pause. Breathe. Ground yourself. Observe. Then make a decision.

22/01/2026

After over 6 years working in the NHS, I've left to move into unexplored areas in private work. I'm grieving this loss and change, but I'm also reflecting on my professional journey, which is inevitably personal as well.

When I first moved to the UK 8 years ago I had no idea of how difficult it would be to be able to work as a therapist. My context and who I was completely changed with just one flight.

After years and tears of voluntary experiences within mental health, training and providing support in contexts of sexual violence and gender studies, and academic re-training, I'm finally in a place where I can be independently expressive in psychotherapy.

It wasn't easy, it was scary at times and it's still anxiety-provoking. Every new experience and every new learning is going to carry anxiety somehow. We are going to feel insecure before it gets easier.

But we don't just learn from specific phobias or moments, what we really learn is that anxiety is temporary, and that if you have done it before, you can do it again.

Going to therapy can definitely push you out of your comfort zone, and that brings anxiety. But let me tell you something: THAT IS THE POINT. If we don't do anything different, everything remains the same.

So yes, every step we take to be a different person is going to be a bit uncertain, and sometimes very scary.

But you don't need to do it alone 📲

You also don't need to be at breaking point to seek help, allow yourself to be human 🫰🏼

14/01/2026

✨️MOTIVATION VS DISCIPLINE✨️
This is me all wrapped up all ready to get in the North Sea❄️❄️

Just an example of how I practise what I preach.

Balance doesn't just happen, we need to CREATE it.

If we want to break patterns and become a different person, we need to do something different, being realistic with our goals and aiming for things that we can achieve.

This is not medical advice or a replacement for therapy. For indidvidualised support, finding your own balance and looking at your own values, contact me privately.

12/01/2026

You are going to spend all your life with yourself.
Take care of yourself NOW.
Don't postpone it.
Getting help and trusting others is a strength.

You can start becoming a new person today.

Free initial session to get to know each other and see if you can trust me.

Book on 👉🏽 link in bio.

09/01/2026

✨️THE NEED TO FEEL IN CONTROL✨️

🚫 Not to BE, because feeling and being are different things.

Intolerace of uncertainty is one more form of emotional avoidance that has become normalised in many sociocutural contexts.

In many work environments is reinforced through terms like 'risk management'.

In educational settings, it might mean to be 'better prepared' for exams.

In sports settings, it might affect performance and training planning.

And it's not about not planning anything at all or not thinking of the future, it all goes back to having a BALANCE.

When worry becomes excessive and unhelpful, we need to stop, pause, breathe and accept.

Want to work on your anxiety and worry patterns? Need to be control? Do you struggle with uncertainty or stepping out of your comfort zone?

Drop me a DM📲

02/01/2026

✨️ENERGY FLUCTUATIONS & NEEDS✨️

I've just spent a few days in my hometown, in Spain, where it was sunny eeeevery single day☀️☀️

Now back in the UK, I notice a less active body, with less energy and less drive. A different weather, less sunlight and a colder temperature. A different culture and different social dynamics. A different system.

A different context.

And I'd like to remind you to always consider your context before you punish yourself for not being able to meet your targets.

A different context brings different needs. This doesn't mean you need to stop everything and hibernate forever. But you are going to go through energy fluctuations depending on both your external context and your internal system.

Remember this when you compare yourself to your younger self, or your summer self, or yourself in your country of origin. Or yourself with fewer hormonal changes, or less physical pain. Or yourself when you had more time to rest. Or yourself without a constant state of alert.

Remember this when you compare yourself to others by only measuring 'achievements'.

Remember it is never you and your expectations, your context is also going to dictate your needs and your capacity, and you may need to adapt to that.

❤️ It's okay to get frustrated, but you can also remind yourself that you're human and have human needs.

19/12/2025

✨️ENERGY MANAGEMENT✨️

This post is for educational purposes and reflects a psychological perspective on wellbeing, not individual advice.

This is not a replacement for therapy. It isn't intended to demonise time management, but to offer a perspective that considers human variability, context, and energy alongside traditional approaches.

Inspiration by Maslow's hierarchy of needs (1943), and historical research on work and productivity (Thompson, 1967; Taylor, 1911).

👆🏽I want to stress that not meeting a target is not a measure of your worth.

12/12/2025

✨️QUICK FIXES✨️

Reasons to avoid giving therapeutic 'advice' in uncontrolled settings:

1. Lack of knowledge of the person's individual circumstances.

2. Potential harm without understanding the full context of the person.

3. Understanding things through a problem-solution lens can lead to pathologising emotions.

4. The problem-solution lens simplifies human experience and can lead to dehumanising natural difficulties.

5. We are unable to follow up how the person following the 'advice' is doing and whether we need to re-shape or change that technique.

6. ADVICE - We are not selling washing machines👖, therapy is not about giving advice, but to support someone in making decisions that are empowering in their context and circumstances.

7. You are human, you are meant to feel emotions and if your actions ever become maladaptive, you need to understand what's going on to do something about it.

8. Sometimes it's not you, it's your context and taking individual responsibility and self-blame may be making things worse.

11/12/2025

✨️AUTOCUIDADO EN NAVIDAD✨️

Repito lo que dije hace unos días. Las herramientas de autocuidado son importantísimas, pero no nos olvidemos de que el bienestar invidual conlleva un bienestar social, y para ello tenemos una responsabilidad colectiva.

Seamos conscientes de cómo lo que hacemos y decimos puede afectar a las demás personas.

Si te encanta la Navidad este año, genial👏🏻👏🏻

Si estás deseando que se acabe, no estás sola o solo. Y puedes encontrar un hueco para cuidarte entre tanto bombardeo navideño.

👉🏽 Tengo agenda abierta pero no me quedan muchos huecos libres, por si te lo estás pensando y no te decides. Primera consulta gratis, sin presiones ni compromiso.

09/12/2025

📻 Conéctate hoy de 17 a 19 hrs (horario Reino Unido) para escucharnos divagar un poquito sobre cómo la época de Navidad puede afectar a la salud mental, especialmente a migrantes, en español!

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