About:

Having personally experienced the transformative power of counselling during a challenging chapter in her life, Abril was inspired to embark on this meaningful path of helping others navigate their own difficulties. Her background as a corporate lawyer gifted her with a profound understanding of the immense pressures and stresses that professionals endure daily—the relentless deadlines, competitive environments, and constant expectations of excellence that can silently wear away at one’s wellbeing.

This unique background, enriched by her journey of leaving her home country at a young age and subsequently studying and working across different countries and continents, has given her a deep sensitivity to cross-cultural challenges and transitions. Her own experience of adapting to new environments and bridging diverse cultural contexts informs her compassionate approach when working with clients from varied cultural backgrounds, allowing her to recognize the complex interplay between cultural identity and personal wellbeing. This multicultural perspective fuels her heartfelt dedication to mental health support, where she gently guides clients with warmth and empathy toward discovering their inner resources of peace and resilience.

She believes deeply that nurturing these internal wellsprings is the cornerstone of a balanced life, allowing individuals not merely to endure their demanding careers, but to flourish both professionally and personally while preserving their authentic selves and sense of purpose in an often overwhelming world.

Specialisations:

Abril works with adults only, and specializes in addressing issues including anxiety, stress and burnouts, self-worth or self-esteem issues, cross-cultural challenges, interpersonal and relationship issues, attachment wounds and negative thinking patterns.

Qualifications:

With a robust educational foundation underpinning her counselling practice, Abril holds a Master of Counselling from Monash University, Australia, where she developed her therapeutic approach and clinical skills. Her commitment to ongoing professional development is demonstrated through her completion of Level 1 Narrative Therapy training at the Dulwich Center in Perth, Australia, allowing her to help clients reauthor their life stories in empowering ways.

Her academic background also includes a Juris Doctor and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, qualifications that inform her nuanced understanding of professional environments and systemic pressures. This unique combination of therapeutic training and professional education enables her to connect deeply with clients from diverse backgrounds, particularly those navigating career transitions, workplace challenges, or identity questions within varied cultural contexts.

Approach to Therapy:

Abril creates a nurturing therapeutic environment founded on client-centered principles, where empathy, deep listening, and collaborative partnership form the cornerstone of her practice. Within this safe and judgment-free space, clients are welcomed to explore their inner landscape of thoughts, feelings, and life experiences according to their comfort and readiness.

Her approach integrates multiple therapeutic frameworks to meet each client’s unique needs. Through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), she assists in identifying and transforming limiting thought patterns, while Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) supports clients in developing psychological flexibility and value-aligned living. Her training in Narrative Therapy, which empowers clients to externalize problems, helps her to guide the clients to recognize the cultural and social influences on their personal stories, and ultimately reauthor their life narratives in more empowering ways. This approach encourages the clients to recognize themselves as the experts of their own lives and helps them identify strengths and preferred identities beyond problem-saturated stories

In addition, as an avid trail runner and ultramarathon competitor, Abril embodies her belief in the profound connection between physical and mental wellbeing, often drawing insights from her endurance experiences when working with clients. Her personal practice of pushing through physical barriers and finding mental clarity on remote trails reinforces her holistic approach to counselling, where she recognizes that true balance emerges when we honor both the needs of the body and the mind as interconnected aspects of our whole being. This interdisciplinary perspective enriches her practice, allowing her to view mental health through multiple lenses while maintaining a warm, person-centered approach to healing and growth.