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My name is Barbara

I'm an Educational Counselor, graduated from IUSVE (Istituto Universitario Salesiano Venezia). My thesis, "Counseling in Cammino: the helping relationship through walking therapy, immersion in nature, and the path to Santiago de Compostela," tells the heart of my work: nature as a space for care, movement as language, walking as authentic transformation.

Barbara smiling next to the Km 0.000 marker in Galicia, with the yellow scallop shell of the Camino de Santiago, the sea in the background

My path

My professional experience was born in very different contexts, all bound by one common thread: accompanying people through delicate moments.

I was a flight attendant, a role that taught me to stand beside people in moments of intense emotion. I accompanied passengers through panic, sudden anxiety, vulnerability. There I learned the art of air: the calm that sustains, the breath that guides, the presence that reassures.

I'm a financial and wealth consultant, attentive to people going through complex transitions: family changes, important decisions, passages that call for listening, clarity and sensitivity. Here I learned the solidity of earth: stability, direction, tending to inner roots while facing choices that touch a life.

I was also a swimming instructor and scuba-diving prep instructor, working with children and adults living with fear of water, deep-seated worries, emotional blocks. In that environment I learned the truth of water: trust, letting go, the slow flow that dissolves fear.

Since 2017 I've been an experienced walker. I have completed the Camino de Santiago in full, several times, with its stages, its silences, its revelations. I have walked the Via Francigena, crossing landscapes that teach slowness and depth. I have followed the Way of St. Francis, where every step becomes gratitude and listening. And I have explored many other trails, where air, water and earth intertwine and become teachers of presence.

Walking has become my natural home: a place where the body speaks, the mind opens, nature accompanies every step. It has taught me that transformation is born from movement, from the honest rhythm of feet on the ground, from the ability to listen to what emerges as you move forward.

All of these experiences converge in the way I work today: an attentive, respectful, honest presence. A companionship that unites body, nature, word and movement. A natural, sheltered space where you can feel welcomed, heard, accompanied.

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Buen Camino Talks

I'm also a co-founder of Buen Camino Talks, a project born along the trails of the Camino de Santiago that gathers pilgrims' stories and voices.

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A natural, sheltered space to rediscover balance, direction and possibility.

Shall we walk together?