Vaginal pain, leaks and after-effects
should not be normalised. They should be treated.

For the last 25 years I have trained, worked and lived around a single obsession: improving my own health and that of the women I treat.

My curiosity began long before I knew I would end up doing this.

As a child, few things at school held my attention. But when we talked about the human body, the mind or the way we relate to each other, something lit up inside me.

Dancing was my therapy.

Reading about health and wellbeing in my mother’s magazines was my ritual before sleep.

I studied Physiotherapy because it was the degree closest to everything that fascinated me: health, the body and movement.

And I fell in love with the profession from day one.

During my degree something happened that would change my course: I developed vulvodynia.

At that time, finding answers was not easy. Pelvic floor physiotherapy was still largely unknown in Spain. Many women lived in silence with pain, urine leaks or other symptoms. Frequent situations, but not normal for that, often lived with shame and without knowing where to ask for help.

I too needed to understand what was happening to me.

So I started searching.

I trained in the different areas related to the pelvic floor: urology, gynaecology, physiosexology, coloproctology and obstetrics. One course led to another and, almost without noticing, my health problem became the start of my specialisation.

Twenty years ago that path took me to Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, where I have worked as a physiotherapist specialised in women’s health, abdominal-pelvic-perineal rehabilitation, breast oncology, lipoedema and lymphoedema.

I also worked in private practice alongside urologists and gynaecologists.

And for nine years I taught at several universities. Among other projects, I took part in creating the first course on physiotherapy applied to aesthetic medicine and plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Working with women I understood something even more important:

the body rarely tells a simple story.

Pain does not always start where it hurts.

A scar does not affect the skin alone.

And a symptom cannot be separated from the diet, rest, hormones, stress, emotions or history of the woman in front of you.

I was missing a piece that connected all of it.

I found it in clinical psychoneuroimmunology and evolutionary medicine. First they helped me understand and improve my own digestive problems. Then they completely transformed the way I support other women.

Later I added tools from neuro-linguistic programming and brief therapy.

In my first placement report I had already written a conclusion that still guides the way I work today: