About Sebastian

From Hacker to Healer

Sebastian is a computer hacker gone healer. After working over 15 years in the tech industry, he heard a deep vocational calling towards working with others to heal, grow and explore the depths of consciousness.

In 2014 he became a licensed psychologist in Chile, where he trained in Gestalt Therapy in the line of Claudio Naranjo. That same year he came to San Francisco and began studying a masters in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. After working as an intern with Latino communities at Instituto Familiar de la Raza and later at the Haight Ashbury Psychological Services clinic, he graduated in 2018 from CIIS.

Sebastian currently has an eco-psychology based therapy practice in San Francisco based out of The Holos Institute.

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My offering

I work with individuals, adults, teens and children. I work with men, women and people who identify as LGBTQ. As a latino male I offer therapy in both English and Spanish.

I am committed to working deeply with my clients so that therapy can be healing and bring back meaning, passion, friendship, love and success into your life. I invite you to embark on this journey together.

HEALING MODALITIES

  • Trauma Resolution: EMDR and Somatic Awareness

  • Humanistic-Existential: Why are we here? What is reality and the meaning of life?

  • Gestalt Therapy: Parts, Roles, Dreams, Polarities and Being Here & Now

  • Mindfulness

  • Transpersonal: Exploration of consciousness and spirituality

  • Psychedelics: Education, Safety, Harm Reduction, Intention and Integration

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

  • Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research (2020)

  • MA Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) (2018)

  • EMDR Training (I and II) with Phil Manfield (2018-2019)

  • Cannabis Guide with Daniel McQueen from Medicinal Mindfulness (2017-2019)

  • MA Clinical Psychology from UNIACC, Santiago, Chile (2014)

  • Gestalt Institute of Santiago (2011)

  • Claudio Naranjo SAT Program (2005-2009)

  • BA/MS in Computer Engineering and Operations Research, University of Chile (2005)

  • Mindfulness and buddhist psychology (Vipassanna, Shambhala)

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

I’ve worked as a clinician since 2014 doing psychotherapy in both English and Spanish with adults, teens and children.

  • AMFT at Holos Institute. Supervised by Jan Edl Stein, LMFT #21060

  • Clinical Intern, Haight Ashbury Psychological Services, San Francisco

  • Mental Health Specialist, Instituto Familiar de la Raza, San Francisco 

  • Clinical Intern, Centro de Atención Psicológica, Universidad de Chile