Dana is a social worker with twenty years of experience, specialized in gender-based violence. Postgraduate training in family violence (Ramon Llull University) and in forensic social work (University of Vic).
Since 2006, she has been a case lead at the Baix Llobregat SIE, providing onboarding and assessment for women experiencing gender-based violence, territorial coordination, multidisciplinary teamwork, monitoring of social needs, referrals to external resources, and professional training. Between 2004 and 2006, she worked as a community support lead in the Municipal Women’s Program at L’Hospitalet de Llobregat City Council, developing programs for women. Between 1999 and 2001, she managed social strategies for social housing projects in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), working with vulnerable groups such as displaced people, single-parent families, and individuals at risk of social exclusion. She joined us in 2024.

Beatriz has 15 years of experience as an agent of change and promoting the empowerment and economic inclusion of women through mentoring, particularly in relation to migration. She has the ability to build trust and facilitate effective and lasting cooperation between civil society, women’s organizations, funders and other stakeholders. Beatriz is an expert in positioning and consolidating projects and organizations; she designs and drives the development and creation of capabilities and strategies to improve mentoring practices. She lives in Denmark and worked for the Danish Knowledge Center for Gender and Equality (KVINFO) between 2008 and 2022.

Mercedes has a degree in Information Sciences, specialized in Visual Thinking and Graphic Recording. She combines her work as a trainer in the Teacher Assistance Centers of the Government of Navarra with her work as a graphic facilitator of various types of content and with “the apple of her eye”, illustration. She also does graphic design work. Furthermore, she writes drawings and draws words… she likes to make what is important visible and that is why she collaborates with Dones Mentores, “a love at first sight,” she says, “that has become a passion sustained over time”.

Isabel is a health psychologist, psychotherapist and external professional supervisor, with a constructivist-systemic and Art-Psychotherapy base training. Isabel has extensive experience in preventing violence in adolescents, eating disorders, refugee women seeking asylum (British Red Cross), working with women in situations of sexist violence (PIAD’s SIE’s and SICAR), consulting for teams at Save the Children. The approach to Isabel’s work is integrative, trauma-centered, with a feminist and anti-racist basis. Isabel has been committed to the methodological and community proposal of Dones Mentores since 2017 and collaborates with Dones Mentores in mentoring training.

Mónica is a psychologist, systemic family therapist and art therapist. She also trained as an EMDR therapist to work with trauma and limiting beliefs. She is also accredited in positive discipline and in individual and group accompaniment. Mónica believes in the potential of people, in the unique and special character of each person, and in the possibility of change and personal development. She collaborates with Dones Mentores providing individual psychological support to mentors who request it as part of monitoring her mentoring.

Paula is a psychologist. She currently works as an Assistant Psychologist in the Clinical Psychology Service of the Puigvert Foundation. For more than 15 years she has dedicated herself to the prevention and treatment of women and children who have suffered sexist violence and family violence. Paula has participated and presented works related to violence and its effects on adult and child subjectivity and she is a trainer of professionals in this field. Paula collaborates by providing training with Dones Mentores, specifically in addressing the psychological effects of sexist violence to people who work in non-specialized services.