Ocnos clinical team
Rocío Rodríguez Boza General Health Psychologist in Palmones
Rocío supports adults, children, teenagers and families from an integrative, trauma-informed perspective focused on building emotional safety while considering each person’s history and circumstances.
- COPAO AN 13748
- In-person and online appointments
- Integrative and trauma-informed approach
General Health Psychologist · Ocnos Psychology Clinic
Professional profile
Understanding what is happening without reducing a person to their symptoms
Rocío Rodríguez Boza is a General Health Psychologist registered in Spain with COPAO under membership number AN 13748. She is a member of the clinical team at Ocnos Psychology Clinic in Palmones.
Her understanding of therapy starts with an essential idea: emotional distress does not appear from nowhere. What a person feels, thinks or does often relates to their history, relationships, lived experiences and the ways they learnt to protect themselves.
Working from an integrative and trauma-informed perspective, Rocío adapts the process to the needs of the person in front of her. This makes it possible to address symptoms that interfere with life now while also understanding the circumstances that give those symptoms meaning, without forcing the pace or turning a diagnostic label into someone’s identity.
Her style combines warmth, clinical listening and shared goals. Therapy becomes a safe place to organise what is happening, develop emotional regulation skills and build a kinder, steadier relationship with oneself and with other people.
Areas of support
Issues she commonly supports in therapy
Rocío supports emotional and relationship difficulties at different stages of life. The initial assessment helps clarify what is happening and establish realistic goals for each individual process.
Anxiety and emotional regulation
Persistent worry, emotional overwhelm, hypervigilance, feeling stuck, fear of judgement or difficulty returning to a calmer state.
Depression and emotional distress
Sadness, apathy, emptiness, withdrawal, self-criticism or times when reconnecting with oneself and daily life feels difficult.
Difficult experiences and trauma
Emotional wounds, insecurity and relationship pain approached gradually, without pressure to revisit experiences before sufficient resources are in place.
Relationships, attachment and self-esteem
Emotional dependency, boundaries, conflict, recurring patterns and difficulties in building safer, more balanced relationships.
LGBTQ+ affirmative therapy
Identity, orientation, rejection, stigma and minority stress explored from a respectful, affirmative and non-pathologising perspective.
Children, teenagers and families
Age-appropriate psychological support and family guidance to understand emotions, behaviour, relationships and underlying needs.
Therapeutic approach
Emotional safety, understanding and change at a manageable pace
Every process needs an individual approach, although three principles consistently guide the way Rocío works.
Creating a safe space
Feeling heard and supported without judgement can make it easier to discuss difficult experiences and observe them with less fear or shame.
Bringing symptoms, history and context together
Therapy considers what is happening now as well as the relationships, learning and protective strategies that may be maintaining the problem.
Respecting the pace of the process
Difficult experiences are approached gradually, prioritising regulation skills and avoiding pushing someone beyond what they can safely manage.
Her work at Ocnos
Warm therapy that cares about both the process and its goals
At Ocnos, Rocío offers a space for listening and clinical work where people can explain what they are experiencing without feeling judged or reduced to a single problem. The initial assessment helps organise the difficulties, understand their context and agree what needs to change.
The process combines understanding with practical tools. Alongside making sense of emotions, patterns and protective responses, therapy develops skills to regulate distress, set boundaries, communicate more clearly and approach everyday situations with greater safety.
- Non-judgemental listening
- Shared goals
- Emotional safety
- Integrative perspective
- Regulation skills
- Adapted pace
Practice and development
Areas that guide her clinical work and continuing professional development
Alongside her qualification as a General Health Psychologist and professional registration, her practice brings together knowledge and resources related to trauma, emotional regulation, relationships and support at different stages of life.
These areas describe her clinical practice and professional development. They are not presented as official healthcare specialisms in addition to her qualification as a General Health Psychologist.
Beyond the consulting room
Useful psychology for families, relationships and everyday life
Rocío contributes to activities with families and writes resources about anxiety, trauma, attachment, relationships, affirmative therapy and emotional wellbeing. Her aim is to explain psychology rigorously and clearly without turning educational content into remote diagnosis.
In-person and online appointments
Psychological support from Palmones for Campo de Gibraltar
Rocío works at Ocnos Psychology Clinic in the Edificio Azabache in Palmones, opposite Hospital Quirón Campo de Gibraltar. The clinic is within easy reach of Los Barrios, Algeciras, San Roque, La Línea de la Concepción, Sotogrande and Gibraltar.
She also offers online therapy when this format is suitable for the case and the person’s circumstances.
Professional transparency
Registration and professional profiles
You can verify Rocío’s professional registration and view her professional profile. These links confirm her identity and membership of the Ocnos clinical team.
Would you like to know whether Rocío may be able to help?
You can contact Ocnos, briefly explain what you need and ask about availability. If another member of the team is better suited to your circumstances, we can also guide you.
Articles and resources
Latest articles and resources written by Rocío Rodríguez
Articles about anxiety, trauma, internal parts, attachment, relationships, affirmative therapy, grief and emotional regulation, written from a warm and clinically responsible perspective. This information is educational and does not replace an individual professional assessment.
Horizontal and vertical relationships: differences, examples and warning signs
Horizontal and vertical relationships describe how influence, decisions and autonomy are distributed. Learn how to distinguish a practical difference from a harmful imbalance, reflect on your own relationship and know when to seek support.
Social anxiety or shyness: how to tell the difference and when to seek help
Do you avoid speaking, calling, meeting people or expressing an opinion because you fear being judged? Rocío Rodríguez Boza, General Health Psychologist, explains how to distinguish shyness from social anxiety, recognise the symptoms and safety behaviours involved, practise gradual exercises and decide when professional support may be helpful.
Butterfly hug for anxiety: how to do it and what the science says
The butterfly hug is a self-regulation exercise that uses gentle alternating taps across the upper chest. Rocío Rodríguez Boza explains how to practise it, when it may help with anxiety, its limitations and what the scientific evidence actually says.
Attachment styles: how they influence your relationships and the way you love
Attachment styles can influence how we experience closeness, distance, trust, fear of abandonment and emotional safety in our relationships. In this article, Rocío Rodríguez Boza explains the main attachment styles and how therapy can help you build more secure ways of relating.
Internal parts: why you want to change and get stuck
Sometimes the problem is not a lack of willpower, but inner conflict. Rocío Rodríguez explains why one part of you wants to move forward while another part gets stuck, and how this can relate to anxiety, depression, self-criticism and therapy.
Minority stress: what it is and how it affects mental health
Minority stress is the psychological burden that can appear when someone lives with stigma, discrimination or the expectation of rejection. In this article, we explain what it is, how it can affect mental health, and how affirmative therapy may help.
Psychological Trauma: How It’s Assessed and Treated in Therapy
Psychological trauma is not only about what happened, but about the impact it left behind. It can affect the nervous system, emotions, relationships and sense of self, sometimes long after the original experience has passed. In this article, Rocío Rodríguez Boza, Registered Health Psychologist (COPAO AN 13748), explains what psychological trauma is, how it develops, common symptoms, and how trauma therapy works from an integrative, evidence-based perspective. You will also learn what to expect in the first sessions and when it may be time to seek support. If you live in Campo de Gibraltar or prefer online therapy, this guide offers a clear and compassionate understanding of trauma and recovery.
IFS Therapy (Internal Family Systems): Understanding Inner Conflict and Finding Calm
The aim of IFS is not to eliminate parts, but to listen to them, understand them and integrate them, so they stop fighting and can collaborate more harmoniously. This integration happens around what the model calls the “Self”: your core capacity to be calm, curious, compassionate and connected when the internal noise drops.
In simple terms: IFS helps you stop feeling as if you’re being pulled around by inner voices — and helps you recover a steadier internal place from which to relate to yourself and what you’re going through.
What No One Tells You About Starting Therapy
There is a very specific moment, almost to the millimetre, when something inside you whispers, “maybe I need help.” It is not a shout, not an absolute certainty. It is more of an uncomfortable suspicion that appears after many sleepless nights, repeated arguments, and a kind of tiredness that no holiday seems to fix. And just as that voice begins to grow louder, another one appears — louder still — saying, “it’s not that bad,” “it will pass,” “going to therapy is an overreaction.”
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More psychology resources from Ocnos
The Ocnos blog includes resources from our team on anxiety, trauma, relationships, childhood, affirmative therapy and emotional wellbeing. If you would like guidance for your particular circumstances, you can contact the clinic.