——— Experience
From clinical practice to public policy
Three movements, not a list. Full detail on LinkedIn.
01
Clinical practice and applied research
2010 — 2015
CIEPS
Co-founder and director. Built a team of 18 psychologists and psychiatrists serving some 1,700 patients; designed its clinical protocols and management systems.
2008 — 2013
MIDE UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Research consultant. Measurement instrument design and applied mixed-methods research.
02
National programmes
2019 — 2021
Universidad San Sebastián
Consultant, Directorate of Vinculación con el Medio (third mission).
2013 — 2020
iCubo, Universidad del Desarrollo
Consultant. Designed an evidence-informed method for composing diverse student innovation teams and training their mentors — the starting point of my diversity-management work.
2011 — 2015
Fundación Todo Mejora
Board member. Founded and led the health area; co-authored pioneering guidelines on the care of LGBTI+ children and adolescents (2013).
03
Public policy
2021 — present
Ministry of Health, Chile
Advisor, Mental Health Department, Undersecretariat of Public Health (DIPRECE).
2015 — 2019
JUNAEB
National Coordinator, Habilidades Para la Vida. Co-created Habilidades Para la Vida III; designed and piloted its national risk-detection systems; counterpart to six national and international research teams (Universidad de Chile, PUCV, Universidad del Desarrollo, University of North Carolina, University of Warwick, Harvard Medical School–MGH).
Teaching, throughout
2011 — present
Fifteen years teaching one subject at three deepening levels — cultural competence, the management of diversity, and complexity. The reasoning behind it is in Work; the record is here.
Postgraduate programmes
- Magíster en Psicología Clínica (ICPSI, in alliance with Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez) — Sexual and gender diversity. 2013–2020.
- Diplomado de Especialización Clínico-Comunitaria en Salud Mental e Interculturalidad (Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano) — Intercultural competence in mental health care. 2022, 2024.
- Diplomado en Salud Mental en Comunidades Educativas (Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano) — School-based mental health, cultural competence, and the socio-ecological determinants of implementation. 2019, 2022.
- Diplomado de Vinculación con el Medio, Innovación y Territorio (Universidad San Sebastián) — Managing diversity in higher education. 2021.
Programme design (2017-2018). Co-created and taught the Programa de formación clínica integrativa para un trabajo afirmativo de la diversidad y culturalmente competente con pacientes LGBTIQ (ICPSI).
Selected guest lectures. Master’s in Community Psychology, School of Public Health, Universidad de Chile (2025); Master’s in Strategic Communication, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2018); iCubo, Universidad del Desarrollo (interdisciplinary teams and leadership, 2013–2019).