Ángela Gutiérrez Gea

Over my 16 years working with people and families, I’ve kept training and specialising across different theoretical approaches, to better understand human behaviour and the role our bonds and attachment play in shaping our inner world and our personality.

My foundations are in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and over time — after coming to understand how deeply our experiences are held in the body — I brought that understanding into my clinical practice, specialising in Trauma, Dissociation and Psychosomatic Disorders (including eating disorders) through EMDR therapy. The NS School of Psychotherapy has supported me in integrating cognition and emotion clinically, with a strongly experiential approach to the therapeutic process.

I’ve always been drawn to working with young people — I learned a great deal early on working with adolescents with conduct disorders in the youth justice system, and later in early childhood intervention. For the past 6 years I’ve specialised in working with adolescents and adults.

What I find most motivating and rewarding, day to day, is supporting the parents of the teenagers I work with as they rebalance their family system towards healthier, more functional ways of relating — alongside direct work with adults on anxiety and mood-related symptoms, grief, motherhood and complex trauma, all seen through the lens of attachment.

Academic background

• Degree in Psychology, University of Málaga (2002–2007).
• Forensic Psychology course, 2009, Aaron Beck Association (Granada).
• Master’s in Psychological Treatments and Health Psychology, 2009–2010, University of Málaga, with clinical practice at the University’s Psychological Care Service and at the ABB Centre for the treatment of anorexia and bulimia nervosa.
• Resident Psychologist (PIR 2010–2014), specialist training post awarded in 2010, at Jerez de la Frontera Hospital (Cádiz) — the only route to practising as a Clinical Psychologist within Spain’s public health system. Over the 4-year training she rotated through every service in the mental health network: Community Mental Health, the Inpatient Unit, Consultation-Liaison Psychology and Psychiatry, the Therapeutic Community, the Rehabilitation Unit, the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit, and Substance Misuse services.
• During her specialist training she took an active part in mental health courses, conferences and congresses, with clinical and research oral presentations, workshops and posters.
• Training in Observational Assessment using the ADOS-2 for Autism Spectrum Disorder evaluation, 2017, Asperger Association of Seville.
• Postgraduate qualification in Early Childhood Intervention, Pablo de Olavide University (Seville), 2016–2017.
• Master’s Degree in Child and Adolescent Psychology: Intervention Techniques and Strategies, Open University of Catalonia (UOC), 2019–2022.
• Training in EMDR Therapy for Trauma in adults, Levels I and II, Instituto Imaya. Member of the EMDR Spain Association.
• Member of the Spanish Society of Clinical Psychologists of Andalusia (SEPCA).
• Currently undertaking clinical training and supervision at the NS School of Psychotherapy, in Eating Disorders, Psychosomatic Disorders and Dissociative Disorders.

Professional experience

• Youth Justice Service of Cádiz.
• Clinical Psychologist in the outpatient integrated service at Afanas Puerto y Bahía (2015–2017).
• Consultant Clinical Psychologist within the Andalusian Health Service (Cádiz), from 2017: the Rehabilitation Unit (serious psychotic and mood disorders), Community Mental Health for children and adolescents, and the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit in Jerez de la Frontera.
• 2019–2022: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit, Materno Hospital, Málaga.
• 2023–present: Eating Disorders Unit, Civil Hospital (Málaga).
• Ongoing teaching and clinical supervision of healthcare professionals (General Health Psychologists, Psychology undergraduates) and of Resident specialists across several specialities.
• Private practice in Cádiz, 2015–2019 (adults and children/adolescents).
• Practised in Málaga, 2015–2017, at the Paidos Paediatric Clinic in Fuengirola.
• Returned to private practice in July 2025, sharing a practice with her partner and colleague, Jesús Martínez.