Triggering Safe Attachment Waves to Foster Healing in International Protection-Seeking Environments

Virginia Fernández graduated from Psychology at Universidad Autónoma of Madrid (Spain) in 2010, then moved to the US in 2011 to passionately pursue further professional education. In 2013, she graduated from her Master´s in Family Therapy (COAMFTE accredited) at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Her clinical experience during that time involved working with court-mandated clients with sexual and physical violence and drug convictions. Thereafter, she worked briefly in a health clinic for children with behavioral problems and then enrolled in Gulf Coast Jewish Families and Community Services to deliver in-home crisis intervention for families at-risk throughout Broward County, Fl. In 2014, she moved to New York City and worked as a Clinician for Unaccompanied Children at Cayuga Centers until August, 2016. From September, 2016 until May, 2017 Virginia provided trauma-based therapy at The Crime Victims Treatment Center in Manhattan, where she was trained in the AEDP approach. She has been pursuing further training in such therapeutic orientation since then, the latest one being in London in June, 2018. Virginia moved back to Madrid, Spain at the end of May, 2017 and has been working as a Psychologist for NGO CESAL in its Reception and Integration Program for Refugees.
CONTACT Virginia Fernández Psychologist and Marriage and Family Therapist, C/Samaria 3 esc 1 Apt 3ºB, Madrid 28009, España