Sandra Picazo

For 13 years I have had the opportunity to work as a psychologist in school environments, in addition to supporting adults, children, couples and families through psychotherapy.

Work Experience

Therapist

August 2019 - Present: Private Practice.

• I provide psychological care to families, couples, children, and teenagers who come to me with a specific problem.

Counsellor

February 2018 - Present: Canadian School.

-Individualized support and follow-up for students with social and emotional difficulties. -Group observations. -Implementation of group intervention programs. -Crisis intervention support. -Support in strategies for teachers. -Support in strategies for parents. -Conflict resolution. -Referral of students to the corresponding specialists. -Workshops applied to the groups depending on the problems shared with the group teachers. -Workshops for parents. -Support in the program of values of the school. -Support in the elaboration of the new code of conduct. -Human management, application of integration dynamics to the staff.

Therapist

June 2019 - November 2019 : Destrezas

-Emotional therapy to children and adolescents. -Application and evaluation of psychometric tests in children and teenagers.

Assistant director of the area of children, adolescents, and families.

August 2013 - February 2018: Instituto Nayarita de Terapia Cognitivo Conductual.

• I provide psychological care to families, couples, children, and teenagers who come with a specific problem. - Support in the administration of the institute. - Creation and elaboration of proposals for courses, diploma courses or workshops.

Operational and Commercial Partner ( Direction)

December 2015 - September 2017: BEGABUNG ( Emotional intelligence and skills development center for children from 6 months to adolescents).

• General administration of the center. -Application of work plans appropriate to the stage of development of each child or adolescent. -Supervision of work plans. -Support to parents with family problems (coaching to parents). -Support and direction to the work team. - Conflict resolution. -Recruitment and Staff Selection Interviews. -Training of new team members. -Teaching of classes of the different programs. Workshops for teenagers, to reinforce self-esteem, security, social skills, emotional intelligence, etc.

Teacher

March 2017: ICASC (Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas a la Salud y la Conducta A.C.).

-Imparting the module "General Theory of Systems" of the Systemic Family Therapy course. -Imparting of the module "Couple Therapy". -Imparting of the module "Brief Therapy focused on solutions".

In charge of the Psychopedagogical Department.

September 2011 - February 2016: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Bilingual School.

-Application of interviews and psychometric tests to new children. -Individualized support and follow-up for students with academic difficulties. -Group observations. -Referral to the corresponding specialists. -Application of group dynamics for healthy coexistence in elementary and high school. -Conflict resolution. -Support for children with academic difficulties. -Supervise the correct application of strategies and follow-up of the psycho-pedagogical department's work team. -Application of interviews and psychometric tests to new staff according to the profile of the group required. -Training of new personnel. -Monthly training with all teachers. -Human management, application of integration dynamics to the staff.

UNIVA Tepic Campus.

2012- 2014 Master's Degree in Systemic Family Therapy.

Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara Campus Tepic.

2008- 2011 Bachelor's Degree in Psychology.

Additional Training

• 2nd Inter-University Congress of Psychology. "Universidad Autónoma Guadalajara ". November 11, 2010.
• IV International Congress on Autism Spectrum Disorders " Autism from the inside " " Tecnológico de Monterrey. 2011
• Course-Workshop " Prevention, Intervention and Suicide Grief “ Instituto Nayarita de Terapia Cognitivo Conductual”, December 2016.
• Speaker at the Vocational and Professional Week, Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, Unidad Académica Preparatoria No. 13, May 2017.
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workshop, Instituto de Ciencia y Terapia Conductual- Contextual S.C. and Instituto Nayarita de Terapia Cognitivo Conductual, July 2017.
• Contextual Therapies Congress, Instituto Guerrerense de Terapia Conductual, February 2018.
• Workshop: Behavioral Activation for Depression. Instituto Guerrerense de Terapia Conductual, February 2018.