Pilar Arrese is a wellbeing and collective care consultant at Open Briefing. She is a psychologist with a master’s degree in Social Psychology and a somatic therapist. Originally from Mexico, she has spent more than 20 years supporting individual and collective healing through a psychosocial approach. Her work has focused on people affected by human rights abuses, as well as Indigenous communities, land and environmental defenders, journalists, and social organisations across Mexico and Central America.

Pilar currently runs a private practice, where she supports trauma healing through an integrative approach drawing on Polyvagal Theory, somatic therapy, and ecosomatic therapy.