Ph.D. in Psychology, The Wright Institute-Graduate School in Social-Clinical Psychology. Berkeley, California, USA, 1983. Doctoral Dissertation Thesis: Cultural Issues in Family Therapy: A Systemic Model.

Masters in Psychology, School of Philosophy and Literature, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1968.

Her professional work has revolved around developing a perspective that increases the ability of individuals to recognize, innovate, create, and learn in the face of the hardships, crises, and challenges that come before them. She has explored and implemented this perspective in the spheres of psychotherapy, education, conflict management, organizational and community development, and epistemology. She was a pioneer in the introduction and communication of the new paradigms in Latin America, and those paradigms form the basis for a perspective that leaves behind deficit-based models to focus instead on the search for resources and the joint creation of alternatives.

She designs and develops educational and training programs, and their application in processes that privilege transformation and the construction of possibilities in an array of contexts. She provides specific consulting services to individuals, institutions, organizations, and businesses.

She has developed a generative model whose resources can be applied to different fields of practice and contexts. Her work has been widely disseminated and used in therapy, conflict management, and community and organizational development in Latin America and Europe. It has been the basis for the design of public policies and academic programs.

She has also worked on issues connected to systemic epistemology, comprehensive visions of different systemic schools, cross- and trans-cultural studies of family and healthcare, family life development, a systemic and comprehensive vision of the doctor-patient relationship, the training of professionals in specific resources pertinent to dialogue, interviewing, encounters, and interpersonal processes, specifically professionals in the following fields: therapy, organizational and community psychology, healthcare, education, management and accounting, generative facing of conflict and crisis.

She has been asked to give lectures at hundreds of conferences and scientific symposia, and to teach at post-graduate educational institutions in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. She has given a great many workshops, seminars, and training sessions in those regions as well.

She is the founder and director of Fundación Interfas, Buenos Aires, where she has designed and supervised more than 300 face-to-face and online courses with local and international educators. Interfas forms part of an international network of knowledge management and, as its director, she has coordinated local development with joint work involving international players. Over the course of the last thirty years, she has designed programs on cultural, scientific, and professional innovation that have become milestones, such as the international interdisciplinary encounter “New Paradigms, Culture, and Subjectivity ” (1991), and introduced the most innovative practices in an array of disciplines and fields. In the past and the present, Interfas has had cooperation agreements with universities and other institutions in Latin America, the United States, and Europe. In the context of Interfas and beyond, she has promoted interdisciplinary dialogue, epistemological reflection, the development of new perspectives and methodologies, and the communication of the most recent creative developments in all those fields. She is currently leading the international online seminar “Intervenciones psicosociales y psicoterapia generativa: un diálogo en múltiples claves” [Psychosocial Interventions and Generative Psychotherapy: A Dialogue in Many Keys]. 

The professional and academic collaborative networks and networks for community learning she has created include the Network for Productive Dialogue —coordinated with Kenneth Gergen—which promotes the collaboration of professionals and academics in fifteen countries. The project consists of seminars, workshops, and scientific activities and exchanges. On the basis of that network, the International Diploma in Dialogic Practice, coordinated with Jorge Sanhueza, was designed. In it, a group of professionals and institutions in eight countries work on the production of knowledge, projects, programs, and publications that strengthen the development of dialogic practice in Latin America.

She is a member of the Taos Institute and other international associations.