Psychology with Compassion and Rest

A therapeutic process with meaning, limits and a communicative vocation.

In a world where speed and productivity seem like permanent demands, finding a therapeutic approach that embraces discomfort and turns it into an ally is something profoundly transformative. The psychologist Dany Blázquez has built his professional practice on a foundation of compassion, listening and authenticity, with a vision that also reaches outreach, self-care and a modern vision of the future of psychology.

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An approach that gives space to discomfort

For Dany, therapy isn't about eliminating suffering, but about understanding it. “I try to work from a compassionate approach that gives space to inevitable discomfort, that understands it as part of life, that understands its function and that makes it an ally on the path to what we really give importance to in our lives.”

From this perspective, the consultation becomes a place where discomfort is not rejected, but rather integrated. This creates a deep, honest and restorative therapeutic bond, where the person finds their own rhythm for change.

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Entrepreneurship without forgetting about yourself

One of Dany's biggest challenges in starting out was giving her space to rest. Like many independent professionals, I lived with the feeling that it was never enough, that we always had to anticipate a possible lack of patients. “Fortunately, many consecutive months of stability allowed me to start letting go. Finding that resting made me more efficient and better professional greatly reinforced the idea of protecting rest and disconnection from work.”

That was, for him, his best moment as an entrepreneur: discovering that taking care of himself was also a way to take better care.

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From therapeutic vocation to purposeful outreach

Communication has always been a parallel vocation in Dany's life. With previous experience in media, he decided to start disseminating psychology on social networks in a very organic way. “The most natural thing for me was to bring those two worlds together and talk on networks about things that inspired me related to our mental health.”

Today, this outreach work has become an essential way to democratize access to psychological tools and generate community. Through closeness and humor, Dany offers accessible, honest and much needed content at a time when self-care is beginning to occupy its deserved space.

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AI and Mental Health: A Threat or an Opportunity?

Dany takes a close look at the impact of artificial intelligence on psychology. Far from seeing it as a threat, he integrates it with a critical sense. “It already helps us to organize and manage information, to research therapeutic models, to redirect an intervention... Psychologists cannot turn our backs on AI.”

For him, the key is to know how to use these tools without losing what is essential: the human bond. “The therapist-patient bond need not be compromised by the use of AI.”

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Dream about equipment and physical presence

The future of your practice is imagined to be shared, tangible and with human warmth. “Our profession is extremely lonely, especially if it is practiced online. I would like to grow and formalize my team in a physical center, in a small office in the center of Madrid, welcoming, modern and minimalist.”

More than a workplace, it's about creating community, having someone to share the daily work of psychological care with and being accompanied by colleagues as well.

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Inspiring books, podcasts and references

Dany is a professional who lets himself be touched by what he reads and listens to. You should talk to someone, by Lori Gottlieb, marked a before and after: “It made me a better psychologist. My sessions began to soak up his style and reached places that I had a hard time accessing before.”

His recommendations include the podcast Don't let us get enough of nothing, by Sergio Macías, to disconnect, and his own space, I don't have a couch, where he shares reflections with a close and honest tone.

What if I weren't a psychologist? He would probably be on the radio or television, where he also always felt that his voice could have a place.

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What is experienced teaches differently than what is told

When we ask him for the best advice he has received, he doesn't hesitate: “What is experienced teaches differently than what is told.” A phrase that summarizes their way of understanding growth: validating their own experience as a guide, without universal recipes, without shortcuts.

And if you could choose a dinner with anyone in the world, today you are clear about it: “I'm going to have dinner with Pedro Sánchez and carelessly I pick up his cell phone to see what happened there.” Humor, curiosity and intelligence, three ingredients that also define their way of being in the world.

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Referents who care and teach

Dany finds inspiration in professionals who combine intelligence, sensitivity and a very authentic vocation: Sarah Belén Olarte, Déborah Murcia, Pablo de Occimorons and Ana de Nacidramatica. “They are honest, hardworking and very smart. I look at them and learn all the time. They have a very genuine vocation to care for others and it's lovely to see them in action.”

If you want to know more about Dany Blázquez, follow his content or make an appointment, You can find him on his social networks or listen to his podcast I don't have a couch. Their compassionate approach and way of understanding psychological care are more alive than ever.

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