Sandra C. Ormeño Psychotherapist & Coach

Sandra C. Ormeño Psychotherapist & Coach Psychotherapist & Author. Neurodivergence, Shadow Work and daily therapeutic insights and practices, from books too!

Hello, I am Sandra and I am the founder of BestYou Therapies Ormeno, a therapeutic practice based in Dundee (Scotland). I am a qualified Counsellor, Couple Counsellor, EMDR practitioner, CRM therapist,Clinical Hypnotherapist, Psychologist and Pedagogue (Science of Education) with extensive experience, including but not limited to, working with adults and young people in areas such as childhood sex

ual abuse, rape and any type of sexual or domestic abuse, including ritual abuse and sexual exploitation; Also bereavement, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, (including infidelity and intimacy difficulties), addiction, self-harm, self-esteem, etc. Specialised in complex trauma and DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). Sandra will accompany you on your journey to empowerment, growth, self discovery and self understanding through Pluralistic counselling, an approach that integrates different theories and strategies from Person Center, CBT, Psychodinamic, Narrative therapy to a wide variety of approaches, adapting and working in collaboration with you. Sandra can also offer, CRM, Creative therapies, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Animal Assisted Therapy, Outdoors therapy, Life Coaching and Reiki. Each therapy can be booked individually or as a combination.

03/09/2026

Jung borrowed the word persona from the Latin term for the masks worn by ancient Greek actors — fixed, expressive, designed to project a character to an audience. We do the same. And it is not pathology — it is social intelligence. The persona becomes dangerous not when it exists but when it is mistaken for the whole of who we are. When the mask is worn so long and so completely that the Self beneath it has had no room to breathe. Who are you when nobody needs anything from you? Day 246 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026. ♥️

01/09/2026

Beneath the personal unconscious Jung proposed a deeper stratum shared by all human beings — the collective unconscious. Living within it are archetypes — not characters or personality types, but structural tendencies of the psyche to organise experience in particular ways. The Hero appears in every mythology not because cultures borrowed from each other but because the Hero pattern is a structural feature of the human psyche itself. You carry these patterns. They are older than your personal history. Day 244 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026. ♥️

31/08/2026

Jung approached dreams not as random neurological noise but as the primary language of the unconscious — a language written in images, symbols and emotionally saturated meaning that logic was never designed to translate directly. Unlike Freud, he rejected fixed symbolic meanings — the same image means something different in each person's dreaming life. The most important first step is not interpretation but preservation. Write the dream down before logic explains it away. Day 242 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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30/08/2026

The popular version of Jung's projection theory has become a blunt instrument — if it triggers you, it's your shadow. But Jung was far more precise than that. Not all strong reactions are projections. The signature of true projection is specific — disproportionate, persistent, strangely personal, resistant to withdrawal even when evidence shifts. And we project not only what we reject as too dark, but what we reject as too luminous. The unlived life. The disowned potential. The question projection asks is not whether something is acceptable — but what the quality of your reaction reveals. Day 242 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026. ♥️

29/08/2026

Jung's Shadow is not evil. It is not moral darkness. It is the repository of everything the ego refused to identify with — and rejection and badness are not the same thing. Much of what we pushed into the Shadow was vital. Necessary. The anger that becomes a boundary. The sensitivity that becomes connection. The wildness that becomes aliveness. Jung said the Shadow is ninety percent pure gold. What have you been rejecting that might actually be asking to be reclaimed? Day 241 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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28/08/2026

Jung saw what the ego cannot see about itself — that it is not the author of the psyche but a participant in it. A single instrument convinced it is the entire orchestra. Individuation begins when that conviction breaks. When something cracks the ego's certainty about its own completeness. Jung called the totality the Self — not the self we perform or protect, but the organising centre of everything we are, including what we have never yet claimed. Who are you when you are not performing your identity? Day 240 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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27/08/2026

Jung distinguished between the ego — the curated, socially acceptable self we identify with — and the psyche. The larger totality of everything we actually are, including everything we have rejected. The psyche is always moving toward wholeness. Not happiness, not comfort, not the resolution of difficulty. Wholeness. The gradual, often painful process of integrating what we have refused to acknowledge as our own. The parts don't disappear when we reject them. They form the Shadow — and they insist on being known. Day 239 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026. ❤️

27/08/2026

238 days. 14 categories. And all of it has been preparing you for this. Category 15 is Jungian Psychology, Archetypes and Individuation. Jung didn't just give us shadow work — he gave us the collective unconscious, archetypes, the Self, individuation. A complete map of the psyche beneath the personal. The process of becoming whole — not better. Of meeting what has lived in the dark not because it is bad, but because it felt too dangerous to acknowledge. The unlived parts don't disappear. They shape us from below. Day 239 starts tomorrow.
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26/08/2026

We measure our real relationships against an image of perfect connection — two people who never misread, never wound, never need to repair. And they fall short. Of course they do. That image has never existed. What exists in every connection worth having is something far more honest — the willingness to rupture and repair. To choose the relationship over the argument. To return to each other. That is not a perfect relationship. That is a real one. Day 238 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026. 🌿

25/08/2026

We tell the story perfectly — every detail accurate, every sequence correct — and still feel completely misunderstood. Because we told them what happened. Not what it felt like to be us inside what happened. Events feel safer than feelings. But defending a story invites a counter-story. Two people arguing about what happened instead of understanding what it did to each other. Replace one "you always" with one "I felt" today. Notice the difference. Day 237 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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