I’m Agnie.
For more than ten years I built my career in international corporate environments, mainly in sales and in direct contact with clients.
It is a world I know well, with its targets, constant change and demands, as well as everything involved in trying to balance it with your personal life.
Motherhood, my child’s premature birth, grief and other major changes led me to start asking questions I had never asked myself before.
Over time, I also saw how all of this intersected with my professional life. When you change, what you expect from work, your priorities and the way you want to live often change too. That meeting point between personal and professional life is an important part of what I support people with today.
It wasn’t that I suddenly knew I wanted to change direction; I simply became increasingly curious about understanding what was happening to me and how we move through those moments when life no longer looks the way we had imagined it would.
At first, that curiosity was mainly personal. I wanted to understand myself better: why some experiences affect us so deeply, why sometimes we know perfectly well what is happening to us and still keep reacting in the same way, and what we need when something important changes in our lives.
That is how I first came to coaching, then to grief support, and I am currently continuing my training in Gestalt therapy.
The more I learned, the more I wanted to broaden the perspective: not to stay only with what we think or what we want to change, but also to pay attention to emotions, the body and those parts of our experience that are not always so easy to understand.
Entre Senderos grew out of that whole journey, and also out of the wish to offer other people a space that I myself have found important at certain moments in my life.
Nature also has an important place in my life. Walking, being around animals, singing or simply spending time outdoors helps me be more present and listen to myself in a different way.
Over time, some of those things have also found their place within Entre Senderos.
I do not believe my experience needs to look like anyone else’s, or that there is only one way to move through what happens to us
For me, supporting someone is more about being there, listening, asking questions and helping you understand what is happening to you and what you need.
I started with coaching, and I still value how much a good question can open up: the possibility of seeing a situation from a different angle, or that shift from going round and round in our heads to beginning to see what we can actually do with what is happening.
Over time, though, I have also come to understand that we do not always need to move forward so quickly, and that not everything is resolved simply by understanding more.
There are things we can understand perfectly well and still keep repeating or feeling in exactly the same way.
That happens to me too: I may know why I react in a certain way and even have a fairly clear idea of what I would like to do differently, and then find myself reacting in exactly the same way when a similar situation comes up again.
That is why I have become increasingly interested in paying attention not only to what we think, but also to our emotions, our bodies and what is happening while we talk.
Sometimes we may need to clarify something, make a decision or try a different way of acting; at other times it may make more sense to slow down, put words to something we have been feeling for a long time or understand what lies behind a reaction that keeps repeating itself.
I do not believe there is only one way to move through a difficult time, and I do not work with a fixed formula.
During sessions I may ask you questions, share something I am noticing, suggest an exercise or simply leave space for whatever is emerging.
I work mainly through coaching and grief support, gradually incorporating a Gestalt perspective, body awareness and emotional work.
I work from listening, presence and trust in each person’s own resources.
Not to tell you which way to go, but to walk alongside you while you find your own way forward.
