About Me

I am a psychotherapist and life coach with an MA in Psychology from Middlesex University, London, and training in psychosynthesis psychology and psychotherapy at the Institute of Psychosynthesis, London. I am a registered member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP No. 400114). I work in French, Spanish, English and Arabic with individuals and couples, worldwide, online and in person.

I was born in Lebanon to a Spanish-Lebanese family of mixed faith, among visual artists, musicians and composers. Ours was a worldly, intellectually alive household where art, critical thinking and the big questions of life were ordinary conversation. I grew up between Lebanon and Spain, also spending time in Cyprus and Tunisia during my earlier years. As an adult, I have lived and worked in the UK, Germany and the UAE, and am currently based in Spain. That life of pluralism, multiculturalism, marked by both richness and rupture, as well as my own vocation for seeing, feeling and understanding people shaped my therapeutic and coaching practice.

I studied archaeology at the American University of Beirut, then completed an MA in Art and Culture Policy and Management at City University, London. My international career spanned nearly three decades as a curator and cultural design and programming specialist in the public, government and private sectors, working internationally with the Guggenheim Foundation, the Louvre, the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), and several international art biennials including the Thessaloniki Biennale, the Sharjah Biennale and the Venice Biennale, among others. Today, I continue to work in the cultural field, while also stewarding the artistic estate of my father, visual artist Amine El Bacha.

Throughout my career, one thread ran through everything: a deepening fascination with the human condition, with what shapes us, breaks us and allows us to rebuild and reorient. That thread brought me to psychology and psychotherapy.

I bring to every session the full breadth of who I am, my languages, my years moving between cultures and contexts, my experience of war and displacement, my background in the arts, my international professional career, my psychological training and my own experience of the questions my clients bring. I have lived many of them myself.

I go with my clients to difficult places in their being and process. I name what I sense, feel and see. I challenge what needs challenging, and hold what needs holding. I work at depth, and I stay there as long as the client’s process of discovery, connection and unfoldment requires it. Thus, healing happens and then transformation.

My clients come to me because something fundamental needs to change, and it does.

My approach is transpersonal and integrative.