Hello

My journey into psychotherapy has been shaped as much by who I am as by where I have trained. Growing up across different cultures gave me an early and intimate understanding of what it means to live between worlds — to navigate different languages, expectations, and ways of belonging simultaneously. That experience of holding multiple identities at once, and of sometimes feeling like an outsider, has profoundly influenced the way I work. It gave me a deep curiosity about culture, difference, and the stories we inherit from the families and communities we grow up in. Becoming a parent deepened this further. It brought me face to face with the complexity of family life — the love, the exhaustion, the moments of rupture and repair, and the humbling realisation that even the most devoted parent cannot always find the right words or know the right thing to do. I carry that awareness into every session.

My clinical experience across CAMHS, adult, and inpatient settings has shown me that distress takes many different forms depending on age, context, and the systems around a person. Working with children and young people, adults in crisis, and families navigating some of the most difficult moments of their lives has taught me to hold complexity without rushing toward simple answers. I have a particular interest in working with bilingual and multicultural families, where questions of identity, belonging, and cultural loyalty are often woven into the fabric of everyday relationships. Language carries history, emotion, and meaning in ways that matter in therapy. I offer sessions in both English and Portuguese, and I welcome families where different languages, cultures, and traditions coexist.

I am also deeply committed to working in ways that are gender inclusive, attentive to issues of power — both within relationships and within the wider social and cultural contexts that shape them — and sensitive to neurodiversity. I believe that therapy must start from a position of genuine respect for difference, and that embracing the full complexity of who each person is — their gender identity, their neurological profile, their cultural background, their experience of power and marginalisation — is not a footnote to good therapy but absolutely central to it. Above all, I bring to this work a belief that people are the experts on their own lives, and that my role is to create a space that is safe enough for something new to emerge.