Ainhoa López Segovia
I am Ainhoa López Segovia, a licensed clinical psychologist (AO-14336) registered with the Official College of Psychologists of Eastern Andalusia, with expertise in Attachment Psychology and Perinatal Psychology. I have training and professional experience across a wide range of areas including psychosis, addiction, trauma, LGBTIQ+ affirmative care, depression, anxiety, and grief, working with both adults and young people.
My training and professional experience have been centred on what we call Severe Mental Disorder. After five years focused on these types of presentations, I developed a growing curiosity for working from a more contextual perspective — exploring areas such as anxiety, depression, LGBTIQ+ affirmative therapy, and grief — while always carrying with me a commitment to destigmatising mental health.
From a young age, I was immersed in a psychological way of understanding emotions and human interactions, as several members of my family work in this fascinating field. Even before secondary school, I felt drawn to pursue my undeniable vocation: psychology—combined with my other passion, art, which, through creativity, lets me see the same problem from multiple perspectives and enrich the therapeutic process.
I’ve always been drawn to understanding people’s emotions and experiences. Those around me often noticed how naturally I connected with others. During my university years, I realized that psychology brought together everything that inspired me — listening deeply, understanding what drives us, and fostering real change.
About me
I studied psychology at the University of Málaga, genuinely enjoying exploring the human mind in depth and feeling true admiration for how something as “simple” as words could address so many forms of human suffering—and heal. In my final year of university, I began working at an addiction treatment centre, where I gained fundamental clinical tools alongside a much deeper understanding of a disorder that carries significant stigma — and how stigma itself is part of the problem.
Following that experience, I completed a Master’s in Intervention and Assessment at UDIMA, grounded in an integrative approach — selecting techniques and tools based on the scientific evidence available for each specific human difficulty.
I then went on to complete a Master’s in General Health Psychology at UNIR, which allowed me to put my training in Severe Mental Disorder into practice at the San Juan de Dios Care Centre, working with people with a range of mental health difficulties requiring medium-stay inpatient care.
How do I work at Integria Psicología?
Deciding to start therapy is often far from easy. That is why we always aim to create a space that feels safe, respectful, and free from judgement — so that you feel completely free to inhabit the most difficult parts of yourself, and together we can find our way towards what you need.
In our sessions, we work as a team — therapist and patient: the therapist as the person with expertise in helping to navigate difficulties, and you, as the patient, as the expert in your own life. Within the integrative framework I work from, the goal is to personalise therapy — drawing on the evidence-based techniques that best fit each individual person.
I have gone through my own therapeutic process, which I consider an integral part of my experience as a therapist. It allows me to ask the questions I once avoided asking myself, and to bring both mind and body to the service of someone else’s process. Through my professional and personal journey, the most important lesson I have learned is that no matter how much expertise we may hold in human suffering, each person is always the expert in their own life.
