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.

20/08/2026

We have confused agreement with connection so completely that disagreement now feels like a threat to the relationship itself. But the oldest, deepest relationships are never built on total agreement. They are built on trust — that difference doesn't mean distance. That you can see things completely differently and still belong to each other. Hold one differing opinion today without trying to convert. Understanding is not agreement. Connection is not consensus. Day 230 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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18/08/2026

Most apologies aren't really apologies — they're negotiations. I'm sorry but. I'm sorry you felt that way. I'm sorry, and here's why I did it. Real repair is the moment you put down your version of what happened long enough to genuinely enter the other person's experience of it. Relational psychology calls it the rupture-repair cycle — and it's where the deepest trust is actually built. Not in the smooth moments. In what happens after the break. Day 230 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026. ❤️

17/08/2026

The argument about the dishes that was really about feeling invisible. The conflict about something so small you can barely remember what it was — that somehow became enormous. We argue about the surface because it's easier than saying what's actually true. And then we mind-read the other person's intentions with complete confidence and complete inaccuracy. Assumptions are the birthplace of misunderstanding. Ask the question you've been answering for them. Day 229 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026. ❤️

16/08/2026

There's a kind of relationship damage that doesn't look like damage. No raised voices. Just a slow drift — a growing collection of things never quite said. The need never named. The limit never spoken. The frustration swallowed so many times it started feeling like just the way things are. Kintsugi teaches that gold only fills what has been broken open. What stays sealed through silence can never be made more beautiful. Say the thing today. Day 228 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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16/08/2026

We try to have the most important conversations at the worst possible moments — flooded, dysregulated, everything feeling urgent and enormous. And then we wonder why it went wrong. The most important factor in any difficult conversation isn't what you say. It's the state you're in when you say it. A regulated nervous system communicates better than the most brilliant mind operating from threat. Pause. Breathe. Then speak. Day 227 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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14/08/2026

We confuse honesty with harshness and call it being real. We confuse silence with kindness and call it being loving. But truth without kindness is brutality wearing honesty's clothes. And kindness without truth is betrayal wearing kindness's clothes. Real love requires both at once — the courage to say the true thing and the care to say it in a way someone can actually receive. Which side do you lean toward? Day 226 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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13/08/2026

We have been taught that conflict means something has gone wrong. So we smooth it over, swallow what needed to be said and call it keeping the peace. But there is no real peace where important things go unsaid — only the slow accumulation of distance. The moments of deepest connection in relationships almost always follow a truth that was hard to say and was said anyway. Conflict is not failure. It is the gateway to deeper intimacy. Day 225 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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12/08/2026

We arrive at hard conversations with our case already built. Our point already formed. And the other person feels it before we've said a word — the pressure of someone who has come to be understood, not to understand. Hard conversations become possible when you walk in to hear rather than to be heard. Start with them. Start with connection. Watch what becomes possible when someone feels genuinely seen before they are challenged. Day 224 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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11/08/2026

La mayoría creemos que estamos escuchando cuando, en realidad, estamos preparando nuestra respuesta mientras la otra persona todavía está hablando. Una parte de nosotros está presente y la otra ya está pensando en qué contestar.
Escuchar de verdad significa hacer espacio para que lo que alguien nos dice tenga un lugar al que llegar.
Cuando una persona se siente realmente escuchada —sin consejos, sin que intenten arreglarla, simplemente recibida— ocurre algo en el sistema nervioso que muy pocas cosas pueden producir.
Hoy, escucha como si importara.
Porque importa.
365 insights terapéuticos para 2026 — Día 223
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10/08/2026

You chose your words carefully. Your intention was good. And somehow it still landed as something else. Because communication doesn't travel in a straight line — it passes through the listener's history, their wounds, the way their nervous system learned to interpret the world. You are responsible for kindness of delivery. Not for what someone's past does with your words. Stay curious about the gap. Ask — how did that feel for you to hear? Day 222 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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