Our Founder

Josefina Calí was born in Argentina and displayed a remarkable aptitude for humanitarianism from an early age. At just 10 years old, she began to organize and implement initiatives that impacted the well-being of the community she resided in.

A trip through Europe for nearly a year, at the age of six, with her parents and siblings, awakened her spirit and ignited her thirst for history, cultures and wisdoms.

She grew up in an environment nurtured by the unconditional love of her renaissance parents and through them, she received the constant inspiration of service in the area of health and the arts.

Her father, Dr. Leonardo Calí, was a renowned Italian-Argentinean doctor who along with his artistic skills exercised his profession with dedication and love. He contributed greatly to the wellbeing of his community and his patients, also providing voluntary medical assistance and teaching those living in the neediest sector without access to better education. Her mother, Frieda Hoffmann, an outstanding teacher, incredibly dedicated to community service together with her husband Dr. Leonardo Calí, stimulated in her daughter Josefina the love and curiosity for reading, writing, science and the arts. She could read and write by the age of four.

Many things influenced Josefina Calí during her career as a mental health provider; a loving family environment, the encounter and the respect towards the neighbor that allowed her understanding and empathy, and her innate therapeutic qualities and abilities. She received her Diploma of Honor as a Psychologist at the prestigious University of Buenos Aires, and obtained her License of Mental Health Counselor at the University of New York. She currently serves as a Counselor in Mental Health and Multilingual Psychotherapist, serving the multicultural community of the greater New York area and neighboring states.

With more than forty years of professional experience, Josefina Calí approaches her practice by integrating among others, the disciplines of psychology, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and psychodiagnosis to treat her patients as holistic beings. It is for this reason that she has always studied and perfected psychotherapeutic techniques, considering the mind, body and context as a unit and where the development of creativity is also a motivator of growth and evolution.

One of her postgraduate studies in Research in Psychodiagnosis, Rorschach Test and Graphic and Psychometric Tests, performed with the renowned Prof. Ofelia Vázquez from 1979 until her death in 1997, nourished her deeply. The unity of man and man with the world, the basic referent, to which Ofelia Vázquez appealed, enriched with her teachings her vision of the human, the corporal psychism and human behavior in its various aspects of health, culture and social.

Throughout her career, Josefina Calí treated her patients in both private and institutional practices, extending her reach and influence to corporate counseling, as well as an Expert of Justice. She worked as a Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and at the National University of Comahue – Patagonia. She is a specialist and professor in Psychodiagnostics, Rorschach Test, and other Projective and Graphic Tests. She has presented at National and International Congresses, and has collaborated with several organizations dedicated to Health, also appearing on television and radio.

Today, Josefina Calí is in a new chapter of her psychotherapeutic and community career; opening a space dedicated to inspiring and motivating the evolution, progress, and psychophysical well-being of people of different ages and ethnicities. This space is called: AVINOMN, based on Virgilio: Amor Vincit Omnia – “Love conquers all”.