Path in Psychology

Becoming a psychologist was a last minute decision. It was planned to pursue journalism because she had the fantasy of wanting to travel the world and write about what she saw…

It was at an exhibition about surrealism at CCB when I was 17 years old, that I changed my mind and decided to pursue Psychology, even though I wasn’t in the science field. I always followed my heart and never cared much about what others thought…

I then enrolled at Lusofona University and in the 5 years I spent there were things that I hated, others that I didn’t give much importance to and others that I loved, one of them was Psychotherapies: Moreno’s Psychodrama, Family Therapy, Psychoanalysis and readings Carl Jung’s clandestine works on the Collective Consciousness and in parallel I also read Krisnamurti, Deepark Chopra and Osho.

Because I enjoyed psychotherapies so much, right after finishing my degree in Clinical Psychology, I enrolled in a postgraduate course in Client-Centered Psychotherapies and immediately started following cases. Later, as I wanted to have the experience of living in another country, I enrolled in a Master’s degree in Coaching in Madrid and lived there for two years. I returned and created my company, Making a Bridge, where I provided training in coaching and coaching sessions for executives and continued with psychotherapy.

Some time later, an opportunity arose to join a program for young entrepreneurs and with a grant from the European Commission, I went to intern at a Dutch company in the area of career coaching. Five years after opening the company, I closed the doors, as it coincided with my father’s death, and it was time to collect myself and slow down and just dedicate myself to psychotherapy. Later, I decided to specialize in body psychotherapy, because I understood from my experience in yoga that breathing techniques and body postures are powerful in helping physical and emotional recovery, and that there would have to be a way to combine them and offer patients these two pieces of knowledge so that they can progress more effectively in therapy.

At the end of my five-year specialization in Bioenergetic Analysis, I got pregnant! And now with Flor here, and with more time to dedicate to patients, I resume my work as a psychotherapist, exclusively online, in the countryside, somewhere in Alentejo.

In recent years, I’ve dedicated myself to studying abusive relationships within narcissistic family dynamics and the traumatic impact it leaves on the person.