How I understand accompaniment

Why start a process

Processes begin from very different places. Sometimes from pain, sometimes from need, sometimes simply from the intuition that something is missing or the desire to live more fully.

You don't need to have it all figured out to start. It's enough to want to look. or to recognise that you need support. Because we all need it at some point. When our strength fails, when we don't understand our reactions or desires, when there are conflicts that keep repeating without us knowing why.

Each person arrives with different needs. But in the end, by focusing on what's needed, the work is about feeling and processing: present situations, life stories, past and current relationships, areas that need support, blind spots that won't let us move forward.

Is it worth it?

I firmly believe so. when the person is ready or in need. Without pushing what has to come, attending to what's there in each moment. Because each person's process is unique, rich in its nuances, and has a timing that must be respected. Things arrive when they need to arrive.

The therapeutic relationship

This is where the therapeutic relationship becomes key. My work lies in listening: in understanding my clients, their reality, and helping them navigate their difficulties. with equal parts openness and courage from both sides.

A space of trust and safety. A place and a relationship that allows you to explore and go deeper, knowing there is support and a safety net, without judgement. That is my commitment.

The deMiguel symbol is born from this idea. Two arcs that meet, a counsellor and a person, creating a space that didn't exist before and is only possible when two presences hold each other. One arc is visible, defined; the other is subtler. Because within each person there is a part that shows itself and another that remains more hidden: the fears left unnamed, the patterns that repeat, the emotions we avoid. Accompaniment doesn't just attend to what's on the surface. It goes deeper.

At the point where both arcs cross, there is a centre of presence. The place from which you can look without judgement, choose with awareness, feel without fleeing. In therapeutic work, that point is what we seek: not to erase what hurts, but to find a centre from which to hold it.

The therapist as a tool

I believe that those who accompany processes must have deepened and integrated their own journey. This makes the therapist a better professional. more empathic, more understanding. But not only that: they become a tool of lived experience themselves. Not just technique, but knowledge of the process from the inside: its impulses, doubts, impasses and rhythms.

The symbol doesn't illustrate a concept. It tells what we do: accompany people in integrating the parts of themselves that seemed separate.