
Jordi Arévalo Ventura
Professional Profile
Children, adolescents and adults’ Psychologist and Psychotherapist.
He currently works in the Sub-Acute Unit Llúria Clinic, Barcelona’s Centre of Psychotherapy- Mental Health Services.
Accredited Psychotherapist in Mentalization Based Psychotherapy by the Anna Freud Institute of London.
Accredited Psychotherapist in Transference Focused Psychotherapy by the New York Personality Disorders Institute.
Accredited Psychotherapist in Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy by the Spanish Association of Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy.
He has the European Certificate Europsy as a Specialist in Psychotherapy.
Member of the Catalan Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the Spanish Federation of Associations in Psychotherapy
University Teaching
Lecturer in the General Health Psychology Master’s Degree delivering the subject Personality Disorders, Blanquerna, Ramón Llull University.
Lecturer in the Communitarian Mental Health Master’s Degree, University of Barcelona.
Lecturer in the Postgraduate Degree Diagnostic and Treatment for the Borderline Personality Disorder: Specialized Proficiency Development, International University of Catalonia.
Lecturer in the Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Master’s Degree and in Perfection in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Master’s Degree, Catalan Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (University of Girona).
Training Psychologists in the Psychology Degree and the General Health Psychology Master’s Degree in the Llúria Clínic (CPB-SSM). The students belong to the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Open University of Catalonia and the University of Vic.
Research
Studies around the symptomatology improvement and reflective function in patients with severe Personality Disorders.
Collaborating with the San Carlos Hospital in Madrid to create a questionnaire to evaluate the experience of emptiness in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder and to create correlations with general psychopathology.
Other Merits
Adult Psychopathology Master’s Degree (Autonomous University of Barcelona).
Clinical Work and Mental Health Master’s Degree (University of Barcelona).
Perfection in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (University of Girona).
He has worked in different hospitals in Acute Units, Sub-Acute Units, Day Hospitals, Outpatient services and Drugs Therapeutic Communities in Barcelona and London.
He supervises other Mental Health professionals.
Psychotherapist collaborating with Doctors Without Borders.