Our Team

Our support team is of the highest category and the rate of assistance staff versus number of customers is mainly one-on-one, thus providing an all-inclusive, comprehensive stay and assistance.

Unlike other institutions, our team offers a fully humane, comprehensive, spiritual service; we are specialized professionals, well known as the leading team nationwide in an Integral Approach against mental, emotional and addictive diseases as well as dual pathologies.

We offer you a solid, united, well-communicated team, fully committed towards achieving what you are looking for: the patient’s full recovery.

We are a team with the most reliable knowledge, training, experience and commitment to service with the perspective and backup of several disciplines, which has led us to become the finest organization in the country by rendering the highest patient recovery and functionality figures after treating them with the Integral Approach program.

Conformamos un equipo con el más idóneo conocimiento, formación, experiencia y vocación de servicio desde varias disciplinas que nos ha llevado a constituirnos en la mejor institución del país al brindar las mayores estadísticas de recuperación y funcionalidad en nuestros clientes tras el programa por Enfoque Integral.

SUPPORT TEAM

Unlike other institutions, our team offers a fully humane, comprehensive, spiritual service; we are specialized professionals, well known as the leading team nationwide in an Integral Approach against mental, emotional and addictive diseases as well as dual pathologies.

We offer you a solid, united, well-communicated team, fully committed towards achieving what you are looking for: the patient’s full recovery.

We are a team with the most reliable knowledge, training, experience and commitment to service with the perspective and backup of several disciplines, which has led us to become the finest organization in the country by rendering the highest patient recovery and functionality figures after treating them with the Integral Approach program.

Conformamos un equipo con el más idóneo conocimiento, formación, experiencia y vocación de servicio desde varias disciplinas que nos ha llevado a constituirnos en la mejor institución del país al brindar las mayores estadísticas de recuperación y funcionalidad en nuestros clientes tras el programa por Enfoque Integral.

Dr. Carla Jaramillo (Director).

Carla Andrea Jaramillo (1964), Director and founder of the Integral Center Funcion Futuro, is a transgender woman. She pursued her studies at Gimnasio Moderno, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.), Scuola Politecnica di Milano (Milan, Italy), and studied Psychology and Philosophy in Cuba, with further studies and updates at Harvard University and MIT. She is a therapist specializing in addiction, dual pathologies, mental health, and issues associated with personality and sexuality, with great national and international recognition. She is characterized by a high intellectual coefficient that has allowed her to achieve profound theoretical and practical knowledge, also as a self-taught student in the study and practical application of human psychology.

In her previous identity as a man, she was the director and founder of the Clinical Foundation Función Futuro IPS and the Spiritual & Integral Center Función Futuro, as well as the Foundation (Función Futuro) Nueva Alianza. Now, as a transgender woman, she directs the Integral Center and Integral Foundation Nueva Alianza. She has written several works read in different countries, including “The Mirror of God,” “Addiction and Eating Disorders,” “Spiritual Intelligence,” more than 14 self-help booklets on personality and addictions, and is the author of the psychological thesis of Bioethical Psychology (the book will soon be available), and creator of the theses on Spiritual Intelligence, Humanistic Existential Constructivism, and the therapeutic methodology of the Integral Approach. All these schools are based on deep humanism, the promotion of human dignity, respect and promotion of personal autonomy, and social inclusion, pluralism, and understanding for those in need of support, being one of the individuals with the most therapeutic results in addictions and mental health.

She has received training at Harvard University in addictions, addiction treatments, and psychopharmacology, as well as courses in impact evaluation in social programs at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has attended multiple congresses and seminars on mental health. She has pushed for the highest state instances to implement laws in favor of those with mental health disorders and addictive disorders, and is a permanent radio commentator on mental health topics with national coverage on RCN’s basic station with over 230 annual broadcasts. With over 30 years of experience in handling these problems from an innovative, original, and highly effective perspective, she also provides counseling and support for individuals with various mental health and sexuality disorders, both for themselves and their families, with the best results in suitability and effectiveness.

Dra. Nathalie Ramírez.

Surgeon Medical Doctor, specialist in psychology and psychodynamic psychotherapy, Co-Director.

Dr. Ramírez is a medical Surgeon graduated from Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario University with a specialization in psychiatry at Javeriana University; she has vast experience in management of emotional disorders such as depression and anxiety, personality disorders and eating disorders. An independent professional, she is a member of the Spanish Society of Dual Pathology, specialized in managing mental illness associated with addictions. Dr. Ramírez has attended several world congresses and seminars on addictions and dual pathologies; she also has more than 15 years of experience working on mental health and treatment of addictions, psychopharmacology and refresher courses, all of these from Harvard University.

Dra. Emma Sánchez García.

Social worker, specialist in planning and development from La Salle University. Dr. Sánchez has extensive experience in the management of patients with dual pathology. Her systemic approach allows to strengthen intervention in a constructive manner during the treatment process, through psycho-educational methods on the individual, family and group levels, which contributes tools for enhancing the patient’s quality of life and their family nucleus. She has 15 years of experience in successful management of patients suffering from these pathologies.

Jorge Rodríguez, Anthropologist

Professional in literary studies from Javeriana University in Bogotá, and Master in social anthropology from Iberoamericana University in Mexico.

Professor of Spanish and anthropology, researcher in Mexican and Colombian communities. Jorge is also an advisor in wording, editing and style correction. At Fundación Futuro he leads an ongoing cinema forum on the subjects of personal improvement and development.

   Dra. Solxire Manzanilla Chuecos

Licenciada en Enfermería por más de 16 años.

   Dra. Gheraldinne Henao Díaz

Psicóloga egresada de la Universidad de San Buenaventura Cali con énfasis, experiencia y conocimiento en el campo clínico de lo social, intervención con grupos, intervención en crisis, psicoeducación grupal e individual, evaluación y diagnóstico en salud mental. Orientación en programas preventivos en adicciones, diplomado como Terapeuta en Farmacodependencia. Estudiante de la especialización en Derechos Humanos y Sistemas de Protección de la Universidad Militar Nueva Granada. Profesional independiente, brinda acompañamiento psicológico grupal.