2026 Speaker Yaqui Andrés Martinez-Robles, PhD

Presenting: Voices We’ve Yet to Hear: Relational Existential Therapy and Other Worlds

Existential therapy has been shaped largely by European and Global North voices, yet there remain many others we have not yet heard. This presentation explores how opening ourselves to these absent voices mirrors the therapeutic challenge of not colonizing the experience of the other. From a phenomenological perspective, the relational task is to sustain spaces of openness and respect, where singular voices can emerge—acknowledging that the ethic of non-colonization runs through both the history of the discipline and every therapeutic encounter.

Yaqui Andrés Martinez-Robles, PhD is an existential-phenomenological therapist. Founder of CIREX: Circle of Studies in Existential Therapy (Círculo de Estudios en Terapia Existencial) in Mexico and Colombia, where he offers training in existential therapy since 2002. Yaqui is a clinical psychologist with an MA and PhD in psychotherapy. He has been trained in Gestalt therapy, Group therapy, Narrative therapy, and Music therapy. He is a certified practitioner in Holotropic breathwork and Transpersonal Psychology by the Grof Transpersonal Training Association. Certification as Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Provider by the IPI (Intregrative Psychiatry Institute). He teaches at IPI since 2023. He is honorary president of the ALPE (Latin American Association for Existential Psychotherapy). Yaqui has authored six books on topics about existential thought and therapy. He teaches Existential-phenomenological perspective internationally.

Some of his publications include:
“Existential Therapy: Relational theory and practice for a postcartesian world”
Co-author: “Dalogues on creativity in existential therapy”
Co-author and editor: “Being Therapeutic: leading edges in International existential thought and practice”