Systemic Therapy
The symptom stops being seen as an individual problem and starts being understood as a reflection of what happens in your relationships — often, it exists because it plays a role within that dynamic, even when no one notices.
About
About me
I am a Clinical Psychologist and provide in-person psychological care in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, and online sessions for all of Brazil and Brazilians living abroad.
I work with adults, adolescents and couples, offering a safe space for those seeking to understand their emotions, strengthen self-esteem and build healthier relationships.
I also facilitate therapeutic groups, creating spaces of belonging, care and exchange, where personal development happens through relationships and shared experience.
My clinical practice integrates Systemic Therapy, Gestalt Therapy and Schema Therapy, allowing a broad view of each person, their history, bonds and challenges.
I support people facing anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, emotional dependence, family conflicts, relationship difficulties, trauma, grief, stress and existential crises. The therapeutic process favors self-knowledge, the processing of emotional wounds and the development of internal resources to live with more balance, autonomy and authenticity.
I believe therapy is not only for relieving suffering, but for expanding awareness of who we are and creating new possibilities for living, loving and relating.
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If something here resonated with you, let's talk.
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Therapeutic approaches
Three complementary lenses: relationship, present moment and personal history. Together they support care that does not aim to fix you, but to understand the meaning of what you live.
Gestalt Therapy
Works in the here-and-now, attentive to what happens in the body, in emotion and in the contact we build during the session. Rather than explaining you, Gestalt accompanies you in the living experience of what you feel, fostering awareness, responsibility and more authentic choices.
Schema Therapy
Explores the deep beliefs and coping modes learned early in life that still shape your reactions today. With the therapeutic bond as a reparative base, we care for unmet emotional needs and build healthier responses.
Want to know how these three approaches integrate in your care?
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Sessions
Adults
A space to slow down and look at what hurts without rushing. We work with anxiety, grief, old wounds, self-esteem and life choices, recognising the relational patterns that repeat and widening your autonomy and emotional independence.
Adolescents
Care for those building an identity amid demands, comparison and change. The work respects the adolescent's own pace, sustains a trusting bond and, when needed, includes the family as part of a system that learns alongside them.
Couples
Here the client is the relationship. We step out of who-is-right and observe the pattern both partners sustain together: the cycle of arguments, the silences, the unspoken expectations. The aim is to restore listening, repair hurt and rebuild workable agreements — whether to continue together differently, or to part with care.
Therapeutic groups
The group works as a small relational field: what repeats outside shows up here and can be worked with live, supported by others. A space of belonging, mirroring and experimentation with new ways of being with another.
Interested in any of these sessions?
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How therapy can help
Each person comes to therapy for a different reason. Some seek relief from suffering that has already become intense. Others want to understand patterns that repeat throughout life, seek help in their relationships, or wish to develop a healthier emotional life.
As a psychologist in Barra da Tijuca, I provide in-person psychological care for adults, adolescents and couples, as well as online psychotherapy for clients throughout Brazil and Brazilians living abroad.
Psychotherapy can help you face:
- Anxiety and anxiety crises
- Depression and emotional suffering
- Low self-esteem and insecurity
- Emotional dependence
- Relationship difficulties
- Marital conflict and couples therapy
- Separation, divorce and breakups
- Family conflicts
- Grief and significant losses
- Emotional trauma
- Stress and burnout
- Self-knowledge and personal development
- Existential crises and life transitions
My office is located in Jardim Oceânico, Barra da Tijuca, with easy access for clients living in Recreio dos Bandeirantes, São Conrado, Joá, Leblon, Ipanema, Lagoa, Gávea and other neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro's South Zone.
If you are looking for a psychologist in Barra da Tijuca who offers ethical, welcoming care with an integrative, evidence-based approach, I would be happy to walk alongside you in building a life with more awareness, emotional balance and healthier relationships.
Shall we take the first step together?
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Brazilian expats and intercultural families
I work with Brazilians living abroad, their partners of other nationalities, and also with expats from other countries now living in Brazil.
Moving countries touches everything: language, identity, support network, roles within the family. There is grief for what was left behind, a loneliness no one back home quite understands, the pressure to succeed abroad and the guilt of being far from those you love.
In intercultural couples, the systemic lens helps to name what is not a clash of personalities, but the meeting of two cultures with different invisible rules about family, money, time and affection. The work is to translate these worlds — and to build the couple's own culture.
Online and in-person sessions in Portuguese and English, adapted to different time zones.
Living abroad or have an intercultural story and are looking for a bilingual Brazilian psychologist?
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Let's talk
If something here resonated with you, write to me. We can arrange a first conversation and understand together which path suits you best.
Online and in-person sessions, in Portuguese and English.