Hello,
My name is Álvaro Mazzino. I’m a licensed clinical psychotherapist and I work under the frame of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. I’m based in Buenos Aires, Argentina; although I provide online psychotherapy sessions in English for clients that, for any reason, cannot consult with a therapist in person.
Apart from my clinical work with teenagers, adults and elderly adults; I have 15 years of experience in several roles within the Clinical Research industry.
Why consulting a psychotherapist?
There are several different motivations that take people to consult a psychotherapist. While there are many people that face challenges related to the circumstances they are going through, the relationship with others and, even, the relationship they have with themselves; other people just want to deepen their knowledge of themselves to grow emotionally.
As mental health professionals, psychotherapists have the resources to help their clients to know themselves better, to understand the reasons why they suffer and, from there, to make decisions that will allow them to live better.
Psychotherapy sessions
A psychotherapy session is, fundamentally, a time in which clients are able to express themselves freely. The therapist, in turn, actively listens what they have to say.
It is a safe place in which clients can discuss their difficulties, worries and concerns in a frame of respect and confidentiality.
I work under the paradigm of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, schools of psychology that propose each client to reflect on their own lives under the ethic of meaning, freedom and personal responsibility (you can find a brief summary of their theoretical foundations here).
In psychotherapy sessions, clients are offered the opportunity to clarify, through dialogue, conscious and unconscious aspects of their personality, to reflect on the nature of their difficulties and to find alternative ways to respond to them.
Clinical goals
The main goal of psychotherapy is for clients to understand what is happening to them and who they are. But, even more important, to reflect on who they want to be.
Psychoherapy aims to a personal transformation. Not only to modify the habits that make each client suffer, but also to accompany them in overcoming their own obstacles, to allow them to find their own voice, to encourage them to express themselves and to understand what they feel; and thus become protagonists of their own lives.
In short, the work done in psychotherapy is for clients, exercising their freedom to choose and responsibility to face the consequences, to find their own answers on how they want to live.
Online psychotherapy sessions
While I believe that sessions in person are the ideal frame for therapy, many people find hard to actually go to a therapist’s practice, whether due to their schedule or to the distance they have to travel.
Backed up by several studies (including Fishkin et al's), I offer online psychotherapy sessions via Google Meet or WhatsApp video calls.
For sessions, I’m available Mondays through Fridays.
The cost per one-hour session is USD25, payable through Paypal or BTC.
