Ancestrina: a shared therapeutic practice
Ancestrina is a therapeutic practice founded and sustained by Marcela Gómez and Víctor Silva.
We accompany individuals and couples, each drawing on our own experience and training, within a shared practice of listening, study and therapeutic work.
Alongside that work, we develop conversations, content and other initiatives that allow us to keep thinking through questions that arise in relationships, decisions and human experience.
The people behind Ancestrina
Two distinct paths come together in one practice at Ancestrina.
We share the therapeutic work, the study and the ongoing review of how we accompany people, while retaining the differences between our paths and the work each of us develops.
Marcela Gómez
Marcela Gómez is a therapist and cofounder of Ancestrina.
She sustains the project’s therapeutic work and participates in the processes we accompany, bringing her own path, training and way of practising.
She also participates in the clinical application of MAT and contributes to its practical development.
Víctor Silva
Víctor Silva is a therapist and cofounder of Ancestrina.
Alongside his therapeutic work, he develops part of the project’s clinical and editorial work. He created MAT and has written two books about Rapé and ancestral medicines.
What connects our work
Different ways of working coexist at Ancestrina, guided by a shared disposition: to pause before reaching a conclusion, attend to the specific conditions of each situation and revisit the explanations we form about what we live through.
Therapy, study, clinical development and content serve different purposes and have different scopes.
A therapeutic process calls for a particular encounter with a person or a couple. An article, a conversation or a book can open questions, develop an idea or help someone see a situation from another angle.
That distinction matters. So does the continuity between these forms of work.
MAT: a clinical approach in development
MAT is a clinical approach in development for understanding how a person organizes their experience, how they participate in what they are living through and what real possibilities for change exist within their specific circumstances.
Víctor Silva created MAT.
Marcela Gómez participates in its clinical application and contributes to its practical development.
Thinking, writing and talking
Ancestrina also develops content about relationships and some of the questions that arise in everyday life.
In our articles, videos and conversations, we explore communication, intimacy, trust, boundaries, decisions and couple relationships.
Víctor Silva’s published books are part of this editorial work from another area: Rapé and ancestral medicines.
Each format makes something different possible. A conversation can help someone recognize a question. A text can offer time to sit with it. A book can accompany a longer reflection.
Our intention is to offer places from which someone can better understand what they are living through and decide how they want to continue.
A history with ancestral roots
The ancestral dimension is part of Ancestrina’s history.
Work involving Rapé and ancestral medicines has been part of that path and continues to have its own place within the project, alongside content and books related to those experiences.
Today, those roots coexist with a broader therapeutic practice and the development of other ways of thinking and accompanying people.
Their presence within Ancestrina does not mean that ancestral medicines form part of every therapeutic process.
Explore our therapeutic work
If you are looking for support for yourself or your relationship, you can learn how our therapeutic work is organized and explore which path may make sense for your situation.
