How it Works
Please note that all psychological approach is regulated by Brazilian legislation as contained in the Psychologist’s Code of Ethics as in the International Declaration of Human Rights.
Once you decide to start your personal therapeutic process, you can text me via Whatsapp App or via e-mail to set an appointment. To protect your privacy please consider to use your own devices, with antivirus program. Also it is recommended a good internet connection as well camera and headphone. Choose a calm and private place to increase the level of confidentiality.
After booking, bank data will be available for payment. Then a link will be created and shared by e-mail to proceed the consultation via Zoom or Google Meet.
Sessions use to last 50min for individual therapy and 1h30min for couple therapy.
Systemic and Psychodynamic: My Therapeutic Approach
My clinical work is grounded in both Systemic and Psychodynamic perspectives, integrating two complementary ways of understanding human experience, relationships, and emotional well-being.
The systemic approach views individuals not as isolated beings, but as part of interconnected relational systems. Our identities, beliefs, behaviors, and emotional experiences are shaped through interactions with family members, intimate partners, professional environments, cultural contexts, and broader social networks. From this perspective, psychological difficulties are not understood solely as individual problems, but often as expressions of relational patterns, life transitions, or challenges occurring within these systems.
In therapy, we explore how these different contexts influence your experiences and how recurring patterns may be maintained in relationships with others and with yourself. This perspective is particularly valuable for individuals navigating complex family dynamics, relationship difficulties, intercultural experiences, migration processes, and significant life transitions.
At the same time, my work is informed by psychodynamic principles, which focus on the deeper emotional processes that operate beyond our immediate awareness. Early life experiences, attachment relationships, unconscious patterns, and emotional conflicts can significantly influence how we perceive ourselves, relate to others, and respond to challenges throughout life.
A psychodynamic perspective helps us understand not only what is happening in the present, but also why certain patterns tend to repeat themselves. Through greater self-awareness and reflection, clients can develop a deeper understanding of their emotional world, their relational needs, and the underlying motivations that shape their choices and experiences.
By integrating systemic and psychodynamic approaches, therapy becomes both relational and reflective. Together, we explore how your personal history, emotional experiences, relationships, and social contexts interact to influence your current life. The goal is not merely symptom reduction, but the development of greater self-awareness, emotional resilience, relational flexibility, and a more authentic and satisfying way of living.
I work with adults, couples, expatriates, immigrants, and multicultural families, offering therapy in both English and Portuguese. My approach is collaborative, culturally sensitive, and tailored to the unique needs and circumstances of each individual and relationship.
Services
Through the use of a variety of science-based methods recognized by the CFP – Federal Council of Psychology , patients develop life-changing habits and help them to cope with life’s many obstacles. The therapy sessions are designed with the aim of examining in depth personal and relational problems, psychic illnesses and providing patients with effective tools to help them to achieve a good perspective on life, improving their relationships, including with themselves and promoting the improvement of frames of psychological disorders.
Online psychotherapy
Provision of psychological services through information and communication technologies regulated by Brazilian CFP Resolution No. 11/2018 (document in Portuguese).
Adult Individual Psychotherapy
Individual therapy is a process of self-exploration, personal growth, and emotional development. From a systemic perspective, individuals are understood not as isolated beings, but as part of multiple interconnected systems that continuously influence and shape their experiences, identities, relationships, and ways of understanding the world. Family, intimate relationships, professional environments, cultural contexts, and broader social structures all contribute to how we perceive ourselves and respond to life’s challenges.
Therapy provides a reflective and collaborative space to explore psychological symptoms, emotional conflicts, life transitions, and relational patterns within the broader context in which they emerge. Rather than focusing exclusively on the individual, the therapeutic process seeks to understand how personal difficulties may be connected to significant relationships, family histories, cultural influences, and social environments.
One of the central benefits of individual therapy is the opportunity to gain deeper awareness of the dynamics that affect your relationship with yourself and with others. Through this process, clients can develop greater emotional resilience, improve communication, navigate complex life decisions, and create more meaningful and authentic ways of relating.
I have extensive experience working with both Brazilian and international clients, including expatriates, immigrants, international professionals, and individuals living between cultures. Migration and international mobility often involve profound personal transformations, bringing challenges related to identity, belonging, cultural adaptation, family relationships, career transitions, loneliness, and the reconstruction of social support networks.
Drawing upon a systemic and culturally sensitive approach, I help clients understand how these multiple systems interact in their lives and how they can navigate periods of change with greater clarity and confidence. Sessions are available in both Portuguese and English, offering support to individuals facing the complexities of living abroad, adapting to new cultural environments, engaging in multicultural relationships, or seeking personal growth within an increasingly interconnected world.
Psychotherapy for Multicultural Couples
Couple therapy views the relationship as a living social system, characterized by its own structure, communication patterns, values, and relational dynamics. Rather than focusing solely on individual difficulties, the therapeutic process seeks to understand how partners influence one another and how their interactions shape the quality of the relationship.
For multicultural couples and partners living internationally, additional layers of complexity often emerge. Cultural differences, diverse family traditions, language nuances, migration experiences, and varying expectations regarding intimacy, commitment, parenting, and life planning can create both opportunities and challenges. Relocation, expatriation, intercultural adaptation, and distance from familiar support systems may further impact the couple’s emotional well-being and resilience.
With extensive experience supporting multicultural and internationally mobile couples, I provide a therapeutic space where cultural diversity is explored with curiosity, sensitivity, and respect. Sessions are available in both English and Portuguese, helping partners develop deeper mutual understanding, improve communication, navigate cultural differences constructively, and build a stronger, more fulfilling relationship across cultural boundaries.
CRP 07/21842