Medical Team

Amaia Mauriz-Etxabe

Is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, and Certified European Psychotherapist who specializes in  adults, adolescents, families and group therapy.   Since 1988 she has served as the Director of the Institute Bios, Psicólogos in Bilbao (Basque Country-Spain) where for more than 20 years she has organized and coordinate ongoing training programs in transactional analysis, psychodrama and intensively "Integrative Psychotherapy" in cooperation with the Official Colleague of Psychology and other institutions.

Throughout her professional life she has been involved member in several professional associations; currently she serves on the Board of Trustees and is a member of the Commission of Standards and Certification of the International Integrative Psychotherapy Association.  She has presented her work in group therapy, psycho-drama, and integrative psychotherapy at several national and international conferences.

Richard G. Erskine

Richard G. Erskine, Ph.D., Training Director at the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy, is a clinical psychologist with four decades of experience in the clinical practice and teaching of psychotherapy. He has specialized in the treatment of severely disturbed children, run a therapeutic community in a maximum security prison, and conducted a psychotherapy practice specializing in the treatment of obsession, dissociation, and schizoid processes.

In 1972, as a professor at the University of Illinois, Dr. Erskine developed the initial concepts of Integrative Psychotherapy. By 1976 he established the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New York City and, along with members of the Professional Development Seminars, continued the development, research and refinement of a relational and integrative psychotherapy. Each year Dr. Erskine teaches formal courses and experiential workshops on the theory and methods in several countries around the world. He is a licensed Psychoanalyst, certified Transactional Analyst, internationally recognized Gestalt Therapist, and a certified Group Psychotherapist. He is the author of five books and numerous articles on the practice of psychotherapy.

José Manuel Martínez (M.D.)

Is psychiatrist, M.D. International Integrative Psychotherapist Trainer and Supervisor and Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst. Pepe works with children, adolescents and adults and is  Director of the Institute of Transactional Analysis and Integrative Psychotherapy (IATPI) in Valladolid, Spain.

Mercedes Pedreira Quiroga

is Clinical Psychologist . Integrative Psychotherapist certified by IIPA as well as Psychodramatist. I have also trained in AT . I have been working for 24 years in a public addiction treatment center.

Aitor Mauriz Etxabe (Ph.D.)

Aitor Mauriz Etxabe is a psychologist.
Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA) for the EATA (Spanish Association of Transactional Analysis).
Credited as Psychodramatist.
He has worked in private practice for 18 years.

Blanca Fernández Rodríguez

Licensed in Psychology. Certified Integrative Psychotherapist (CIP-IIPA).
Transactional Analyst (contract formation in CTA - EATA-ITAA).
Masters in Clinical Psychology.
Master in Behavior Therapy.
Social Worker.
Specialist in Special Education.
Founding member of the Professional Association of Humanistic Psychology and Transactional Analysis (APPHAT).
Director of Teaching Program I.A.T.P.I.
Miembro Fundador de la Asociación de Profesionales de Psicología Humanista y Análisis Transaccional (A.P.P.H.A.T.).
Directora de Programas Docentes del I.A.T.P.I.