Liria Ortiz: Your questions have kept me up to date

To work as a psychologist feels meaningful and a privilege to have as a profession, at the same time as the mandate I had on DN Inside been anything special to me.

When Today's News heard of ten years ago, I was enthusiastic. I saw an opportunity opens for a task that I also wanted to devote myself as a psychologist. To help to tell many about the psychology of new knowledge and methods, which I found so captivating and full of possibilities when it comes to providing help. And I realized that a better platform for this than Today's News, I could hardly get.

about the importance of making psychology more accessible. To be able to turn to a psychologist who gives advice in a journal is a perhaps modest such things, but still a contribution, to a more equal access to psychological help. As well as a way to demystify our profession, because sometimes it is a little strange beliefs about who we are and what we engage in.

In line with the to make psychological knowledge accessible is that more and more psychologists are now writing self-help books. My successor on the DN the Inside, the knowledgeable and talented Anna Bennich Karlstedt, do it, and I do it.

Read the interview with Anna Bennich Karlstedt

I would like to thank you readers for the countless questions I have received over the years. For the confidence you have shown in me. To answer your questions has been for me to be in a constant learning process. It's meant to look for the latest research papers, return to the current textbooks, and consult colleagues. So thank you for ”forcing” me to keep me updated!

compared with the DN is actually not over. I have started a collaboration with the DN's web TV, which means that I am there in the short feature puts everyday problems in a psychological context. You will find, among other things, on the DN.see, in DN's social channels and on Instagram under the #psykologensvarar.

A last advice: do not save what you want to do for a better opportunity. Life is now. Engage in life, to fight for what you think is important, such as our environment and a fairer world. Every person who cares and does something means a lot.

A big hug to you!