Setting Boundaries Therapy · Online · In English

Strong out in the world. Silent the moment you walk through the door.

Maybe you run a team, speak up in rooms nobody expected you to, and still go quiet the second your mother calls. Maybe you send money home even when your own month doesn't add up, because saying no feels like forgetting everything they gave up for you. This isn't about becoming someone who "sets boundaries" overnight — it's about understanding what your silence has been protecting, and what it's been costing you.

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A first session to understand your situation and shape the process together. You decide with real information, not blindly.

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Why "just say no" doesn't work here

In a lot of Latino families, a boundary isn't read as health. It's read as betrayal.

Most advice about boundaries was written for a culture where saying no is just personal preference. In many of our families it isn't that simple: a boundary can be heard as "you think you're better than us now," as forgetting who paid for your ticket out, as choosing yourself over the people who gave everything. That cost is real. Pretending it isn't doesn't make setting a limit any easier — it just leaves you facing it alone.

You may run circles around a negotiation at work, but the same voice goes quiet on a family call — not because you lack it, but because you learned, long before you had a job title, that speaking up at home came with a price the version of you out in the world never had to pay. That split isn't a contradiction. It's a strategy that made sense once, and that this work can help you understand instead of just judge.

Ricardo De Castro King — Clinical psychologist

Who's with you

I'm Ricardo, and I look at the whole family system — not just your "no"

I'm a clinical psychologist with more than 15 years of practice and 16 years teaching, trained in systemic family therapy. That training matters especially here: a boundary is never just yours. It moves through an entire family system — who calls whom, who owes whom, who's allowed to say no — and that's part of why setting one costs so much, and why it deserves more than a script translated from another culture. I live and practice from Barranquilla, Colombia, and I work with clients online, in English. I think in Spanish too, and I understand what it means to owe a family across a border, a screen, or a language.

This is easier to work through with someone who understands the system you're in, not just the "no" you're trying to say. If this feels like the moment, let's take the first step together — at your pace, no strings attached.

Master's in Systemic Family Therapy

Universidad Simón Bolívar

Clinical psychologist

More than 15 years of experience

University professor

Teaching and research in psychology

Systemic-relational approach

Evidence-based

Professional License 106127 (COLPSIC)

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My approach

How I support setting boundaries in therapy

I work from a systemic-relational approach: I don't hand you a boundaries script written for another culture. We build something that fits your specific family, your specific history, and — for many of the people I work with — a debt of gratitude that also crossed a border.

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The system, not just your "no"

We look at the whole family structure around the boundary — who's affected, who benefits from your silence, what shifts when you speak — not just how to phrase one sentence.

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The guilt, named instead of silenced

Guilt over money you send home, over a "no" to parents who gave everything, doesn't disappear because you understand it intellectually. We work with it directly, without shaming you for feeling it.

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A boundary that fits your family, not a translated manual

The goal isn't to import a foreign template or to cut people off. It's to find what's actually sustainable for you, inside the relationships you intend to keep.

How we begin

A clear first step, no pressure

You schedule your assessment session

Message me on WhatsApp or leave your details in the form. We'll book a first 60-minute video session, at a reduced rate (50% off).

We talk through where you go silent

In that first session, I listen to your story — who you go quiet with, what you're afraid will happen if you don't, and what it's costing you to keep the peace. No rushed diagnoses, no jargon: just understanding, together, what you need.

We decide the process together

You decide with real information, not blindly. If it feels right, we build a process suited to you. If not, I'll still point you toward what you need.

Your first step

Start with an assessment session

A first session to get to know each other and shape your process. At a reduced rate, so you decide with real information — not out of obligation.

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60 minutes · Video call · 100% confidential

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If you're not ready to schedule yet and would rather tell me what's going on first, message me on WhatsApp or leave your details below. I answer personally, usually within 24 hours, no obligation.

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📍 Online · Barranquilla, Colombia

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