ANA MARTÍNEZ DÍAZ

Gestalt psychotherapist

In Spanish, English and Dutch

As a child it was already clear to me…

When I was a little girl I wanted to be a psychologist or psychiatrist. I didn´t know exactly which, I just knew I wanted to be a soul´s doctor. Until one day I said to myself:

Since you are a bit wacko yourself, you’d better not get into this, because it’s a serious thing that entails a big responsibility.

I considered that I wasn’t in a good enough condition to help other people well enough so I forgot about the whole thing. I studied industrial design for a few years until I fell into a personal crisis, because I couldn’t see myself being happy in the designer’s world.

I hit rock bottom and then I recalled

I felt totally lost and in despair, not knowing at all what to do with my life. I had left my studies and was sitting on my bedroom’s floor in tears, when I suddenly recalled I had wanted to become a soul’s doctor when I was a child. I remembered that it was my vocation and, although the idea seemed crazy to me at first and it felt very scary, I followed through. It has been one of my best decisions ever. I love my profession.

MY ACADEMIC TRAINING

I studied clinical psychology in the Netherlands, where I lived from my 5th until my 32nd years of age, and afterwards I took the Gestalt therapy training in Madrid. Throughout these years I have done various trainings, masters, workshops and courses in different areas and I’ve been lucky to have encountered good teachers and therapists on the way who have been very enriching for me.

Some of these areas are: systemic therapy, and family constellations, trauma treatment, bodywork, EMDR, tantra and sexuality, psychoanalysis, child psychotherapy and diagnosis. I continue to study and I will never stop learning.

THE FOUNDATION OF MY WORK

TO BE PRESENT

As a cornerstone of my attitude, my commitment is to be FULLY PRESENT, so I can accompany you in the best way possible. This means I commit to be connected to myself and from there to connect with you.

DEEP RESPECT

To accompany you in a phase of your life is an honour for me. To know that you are revealing a part of your intimacy to me, inspires me to always deeply respect you and your path of development.

Women´s circle

The pleasure to work with and for women

In the Netherlands my first job as a psychologist implied attending women who had been sexually abused. With time I realized that I had a keen sensitivity to it and that I felt very comfortable in this field of work, it was natural to me.

Years later, back in Spain, I “accidentally” participated in a women’s circle and I loved it!

Since that moment I have guided and participated in many circles. It’s such a nourishing experience that feels so good!

Afterwards I coursed “female sexuality” and “experiencing the woman I am” with Carmen Enguita. A fabulous experience for which I am still very grateful.

A women’s circle is not group therapy, but it does have a deeply therapeutic effect.
Speaking for many of us I can say it makes us feel like coming home.
It’s a profoundly enriching, healing and refreshing experience.

With time, a need has been rising in me to be in the circles in a more horizontal way. What I mean by that is that I prefer to relate to the circle as a living organism where we all have the same weight as we co-create and keep it alive together. At the same time my inner witch has been awakening more and more and I feel the need to share her. To come together in mutual support and inspiration in these days where we are experiencing a collective awakening of our intuition. To nourish together our capacities to perceive beyond what the mind can grasp and to make magic happen in our daily lives. I am awakening more and more to my gifts and every day I’m feeling a little less scared to show them.

It has been quite a journey and I know I am definitely not the only one. That is why I have decided now to create a witches’ circle. If you feel the calling, I invite you to continue reading here.

The Women's Circle Book

In 2015, at the closure of one of the women’s circles, the “she-wolves”gave me this self-made book as a present. It describes the journey we made together with photographs and texts. It was such a wonderful surprise that I feel like sharing it here with you.
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Women's Circle Testimonial

Virginia Navarro

Ana cradles you and reminds you of the support that is available for you. She shares her knowledge and tools with you, so you can integrate them and take them with you. Wisely with care, attention and awareness, Ana provides the space and guidance needed for us to mature in our sharing…

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Healing

A key moment

Years ago I participated in my first Ayahuasca ceremony retreat. After experiencing a profound personal healing process, something happened at the end of a ceremony that impacted me: I started receiving information about the other participants, people I hadn’t met before. It was as if I could perceive what was crucial to them at that moment of their process.

Medicine messages. I knew the information wasn’t for me to keep so I overcame my feelings of fear and shame and I decided to share my experience with the group.

They suggested I would ask the participants individually if they wanted to receive the information I had for them and so I did. They all said yes and what happened was that all messages hit the nail on the head for them. The group thanked me and shared how it had been very useful and revealing. I felt a combination of gratitude, awe, satisfaction and a profound humbleness. I knew that what just happened was something sacred.

Since then I started to give myself more permission to trust my perceptions, those experiences that cannot be explained by the mind but that arise, that occur. I believe now this intuition to “read” what is happening to the other person has always come natural to me (as I am certain that it is a natural part of all of us). Now I have come to a point where I say: if I have this ability I’d better put it into practice, because that is what I have it for.

Akashic Records

How I came to know my records

In one of my sessions with Mary, a physiotherapist (and much more than that) I used to go to, she told me for the first time about the Akashic records. One fuzzy day I suddenly felt the urge to receive a reading and Mary gave me the number of Angélica, the woman she had learned this from. Angélica explained briefly to me what Akasha was and then went on to read my records for the first time. I had previously written down a few questions I wanted to consult about, like relationship issues, my profession, etc…

My first experience encountering my guides

As soon as Angélica opened my records, my spiritual guides started talking to me and I noticed I could feel them: my crown chakra burst open and I was covered in a radiant light. I felt like a little girl coming back home. I asked them if the love I was feeling now was the same thing I experienced as a child and they said it was. They explained that as a child I hadn’t had the tools to manage such an overwhelming experience and that therefore I had to shut it down. Now was a good moment to open up again.

Another thing they told me was that I could return to this sacred space as many times as I wanted (which is true for all of us, by the way). A few months later I trained with Angélica to learn to do Akasha readings myself.

If you want to know more about Akashic records, click here.

Akasha Reading Testimonial

Angélica Beltrán García

Ana is an exceptional being, a perfect blend of naughty girl, wise woman and cunning little witch. To let yourself be surrounded by her energy is to open up for her filling your live with Joy and transmitting you her passion for anything she does.

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Akasha Reading Testimonial

Elisa

The reading has been like having an encounter with the wisest and most loving part of myself. A very restorative experience. We are lucky to have people like her who can offer us these experiences.

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Gestalt psychotherapist in Madrid

SOURCE WOMAN

Last summer I realized something important for me: that my skills as a therapist, healer and facilitator of information are activated when somebody reaches out to me with a request for information or support. It is then that I become a transmitter. When I am by myself I don’t feel the need to share my messages with others. I am just happy doing my thing, minding my own business. The transmitter part of me comes alive when there is a demand. Then the information just flows and I find it a very pleasurable experience.

Different people have told me that by simply sharing time and space with me they have received valuable information that has been of much service to them in their path. They tell me that I share my gifts in a generous and natural way. At first I couldn’t see what they were talking about. Slowly it has been landing.

Until recently I have always been demanding myself to do something useful: “you have to go out into the world, show initiative, create something of value…” This has only made me feel stressed, restricted and blocked. Now I see that is simply not who I am. My essence is to be, like a source. Sources don’t move from one place to another to make people drink from them. They just are there. They emanate water and anyone who chooses to drink from them can do so. I’m not selling myself, I am at service.

DO YOU WISH TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE?

If you feel the desire to enhance your wellbeing and to better your life, contact me.