Our Brief Story

Hi! My name is Fernanda and it's nice to meet you. There are many things that you might want to know about me if you're considering coming to therapy with me, so here are some things that you might want to know:  I'm from Mexico, entonces hablo español. But I'm also American and I feel culturally ambiguous, especially since I've lived in Switzerland (both in the French and German regions) for almost a third of my life. Somehow, beautiful Switzerland has been the hardest place for me to integrate, even though I've also lived in Spain and the USA. However, I hear that this happens a lot and so if that's something that you struggle with, then I would love to help you navigate that.  Before becoming a therapist, I studied education and worked in three different international schools with childrens aged 4-15 from over thirty different countries. They were all pretty cool and I was sometimes humbled by their wisdom. They also sometimes struggled (as we all do) and I felt like some of them really needed one-on-one support.  This knowing led me to do my Master's in Psychological Counseling. Which led me to spend hours and hours working across Switzerland (Luzern, Schaffhausen, Geneva and Biel-Bienne) doing internships giving therapy to a whole bunch of wonderful people and learning from some amazing supervisors.  All of this brings us to the now. I now have a few years of experience as a mental health counselor, and I also got recently diagnosed with AuDHD - a combination of Autism and ADHD. As a practicing mental health counselor, I am constantly doing training and attending supervision and it was in one of these trainings that I decided to get assessed. This piqued my interest into neurodiversity and I got my coaching certificate from the nsns - neurodiversity network switzerland.  So now, I am both a neurodiverse coach and a therapist (for both neurotypical and neurodiverse people) and if you feel like I might be able to help you, I would be super glad to hear from you.  If for some reason you didn't find what you need to know about me, please reach out and ask - I love curiosity!