Supporting Your Psychological & General Well-Being
Welcome to EQness
Our goal is to help you increase your psychological and general well-being using the latest Neuroscience findings and evidence-based emotional and mental health promoting practices.
We provide tools based on positive psychology, acceptance and commitment therapy, emotional intelligence, mindfulness and self-compassion in action, healthy life style interventions, and nature connectedness.
Our programs, and coaching sessions are tailored to each need and involve practical, easy to learn and implement resources and strategies that will allow you deal with difficult emotions and modify those unhelpful thoughts and actions that take you away from living a meaningful and joyful life.
Mind
Understanding your mind, you can learn ways to nurture healthy and empowering thoughts.
Heart
Understanding your heart, you can learn to relate better to your emotions and self-generate positive states.
Behavior
Understanding your behaviour and its consequences, you can learn to do what really matters (and that is a game changer!).
An Open Heart, a Flexible Mind and Effective Action Lead to
the person you want to be and the life you want to live
Who is behind EQness?
Hi, there, my name is Olga-Lucia Gamboa Arana, I am a Cognitive Neuroscientist , an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy coach, a mindfulness teacher and a dancer.
Why ACT coaching and Mindfulness?
My coaching is based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a form of therapy/training that has shown to be exceptional to develop psychological flexibility and promote positive behavioral changes, both needed to have mental, and emotional wellbeing and of course a meaningful, enjoyable and healthy life.
I love ACT because apart from being very practical and simple intervention, it also involves mindfulness and self-compassion practices, which have shown on their own to improve subjective well-being, increase psychological health and flexibility and reduce emotional reactivity.
Being a teacher of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion I having experienced these benefits at the personal level and with my students, which make ACT even more compelling.
My training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy includes:
– ACT for Depression and Anxiety Disorders
– ACT as a Brief Intervention (Focused ACT)
Who can work with me?
I work with individuals and groups doing coaching sessions or seminars. My expertise include the following topics:
Stress management
Emotional Education and Emotional Intelligence
Emotion Regulation (management of difficult emotions)
Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence
Negative Thinking
Perfectionism
Uncertainty
Anxiety and Worries
Stage Fright
Rumination
Avoidance
Imposter Syndrom
Procastination
Personal Growth
Mindful Eating (MB-EAT program)
Mindfulness and Self-Compassion
Type of Sessions:
Our training or coaching programs have two modalities:
Short coaching intervention: we follow the FACT (Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) model, which can be just 1 to 4 sessions (maximum 1 hour duration).
Standard coaching (training) intervention: this includes around 6 sessions or more (1 hour duration).
My philosophy
Sharing
I like sharing resources that I consider valuable and effective. As a scientist I question everything I learn, read or hear, and strongly believe in techniques that I have tested myself and I invite you to do the same.
The gift of self-care
To live a purposeful, joyful life requires value-based actions (do what matters). This means that magic formulas or miraculous recipes that solve your life do not exist. Every precious thing takes time to reach its final form and of course this field is no exception. There is a lot of beauty in taking time to take care of ourselves! Remember, perseverance, patience and daily action are important to make our life 7% happier.
Updated Blog
Getting my Dream Life (I)
The Power of Determination (From the program: “Becoming a Hero”) Hi there! It has been long time since the last time we shared something in
Compassion & Awareness program to build a healthy Self-Esteem
During this course, we will get familiar with the different aspects surrounding self-esteem in order to gain insight about how they affect our daily life
Eating mindfully for a happy soul & healthy body
Many of us start a new year with the intention of eating less to lose weight. Let it be different this year.
What if I fall? by Erin Hanson
There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask “What if I fall?”
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”