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Pilar Durán Soto

Pilar Durán Soto

Psychology
Patient Demographics: Babies, Children, Adult, Elderly

"Healing your wounds of the past will help you cope in a more appropriate way in your future.

Remember, a wound has not been healed can become infectious causing a deeper wound."

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  • Hospital Internacional La Católica.Calle Blancos, Goicoechea, San José, Costa Rica
    San Antonio de Guadalupe, Goicoechea, in front of the Courts of Justice. Building Anexo. Floor 2. Office 252.
    +506 2246 3000 / +506 8706 6941
    drapilarduran@gmail.com
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Procedures (43)

General Inquiry
Accompaniment for families with neurodiverse members
Adolescent empowerment
Child raising counseling
Clinical hypnosis
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive stimulation of the elderly
Conflict management
Coparenting training for couples in the process of separating or already divorced.
Couples therapy
Crisis intervention for victims of violence
Diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
Divorce counseling
Emotional Guidance in Job Changes
Emotional support
Exercises to release tension, stress and trauma
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Family therapy
Female Empowerment
Grief counseling
Guide to the life project
House visit
Intelligence quotient (IQ) test
Internal Family Systems
Mental suitability for accompaniment with support animals
Neuropsychological assessment
Online Medicine
Parent's School
Personal empowerment (men and women)
Pre-Surgical Psychological Assessment
Preparation for retirement from work (pension)
Psychodiagnosis
Psychoeducational assessment and curricular adjustments
Psychometric test
Psychotherapeutic treatment for people with self-harm
Somatic Experience
Sports Psychological Support Processes – Coaching
Stress and labor conflict
Support processes for Successful Aging (planning and approaching retirement and quality of life during older adulthood)
Supporting psychotherapy in chronic and terminal pathologies
Teen guide
Therapeutic accompaniment for children with autism
Vocational guidance evaluation
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Medical conditions (48)

Anorexia
Anxiety
Codependent relationships
Identity disorder
Panic attack
Agoraphobia
Alcoholism
Anguish
Antisocial personality
Anxious or excessive eating
Bulimia
Chronic depression (dysthymia)
Chronic fatigue
Compulsive gambling
Couple conflict
Depression
Difficulty adapting
Drug abuse
Dyslexia
Emergency psychology
Fear of school
Hostile behavior
Hypochondria (health anxiety)
Learning disability
Lost of interest in working
Maternal deprivation syndrome (childhood neglection)
Medicine dependence
Menopause
Mourning
Narcistic behavior
Obesity
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)
Pediatric psychology
Phobia
Poor school performance
Premature ejaculation
Psychotic behavior
Rebel child against parents
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
Selective mutism
Sexual apathy
Sexual aversion
Shyness
Suicidal behavior
Tobacco addition
Transsexuality
Trichotillomania
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General Info

About me

My ideology is not to make dependent patients, it is to make free people being able to be their own therapists. I provide tools to address future crises.

I offer the maximum potential on active listening, empathy, proven methods and creative proposals.

https://www.facebook.com/MejorandolaSaludMental/

Languages

English, Español

Education

Degrees
  • Masters in Clinical Psychology. Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) - Facultad de Psicología - San José, Costa Rica. November 2012
  • Degree in Clinic Psychology. Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) - Facultad de Psicología - San José, Costa Rica. December 2010
  • Bachelors in Psychology. Universidad Centroamericana de Ciencias Sociales. November 2009
Courses

  • Eating disorders management update - San Jose, Costa Rica.

  • Certificate in Batería III Woodcock Muñoz

  • Comprenhensive management of adolescent care

  • "Animal Assisted Therapy" Seminar

  • EMDR Advanced Therapy

  • "Game therapy with children and adolescents" Seminar

  • Course "Crisis intervention in situations of sexual abuse"

  • Approach and update for prevention of depression and suicide

  • Workshop of psychotherapeutic intervention with patients in suicidal crises

  • Training: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for adults (MMPI-II)

  • Neuropsychology Seminar

  • 1st national and Central American Congress on Palliative Care

  • International Conference on Homosexuality

  • Certificate in cognitive therapy and rational emotive behavior therapy

Trainings

  • Hospital Rotation

    National Psychiatric Hospital Manuel Antonio Chapui y Torres

  • Hospital Rotation

    Rotation: Hospital Mexico

  • Hospital Rotation

    Rotation: Rafael Angel Calderon Guardia Hospital

Professional

Licenses

  • Professional College of Psychologists of Costa Rica cod. 7716Active

    Costa Rica

Positions
  • Costa Rican Foundation of Bipolar Disorder
  • Albernia Nursing home
  • National Children's Board (PANI)
  • Therapist of the employee assistance program (ComPsych)
  • Founding member of the Eating Disorders Association of Costa Rica
Publications
  • Publicaciones diversas en revistas y periódicos nacionales