About Me - Your Psychologist in Berlin

I became a psychologist because I've always been interested in how people figure out how to live: the patterns we get stuck in, the things we tell ourselves, the small shifts that turn out to matter most. Most of the people I work with aren't looking to be fixed. They're looking for someone who can sit with what's hard and help them figure out what to do with it.

My Journey to Berlin

I came to Berlin from Brazil a few years ago. Like a lot of the people I now work with, I arrived with excitement and uncertainty in equal measure, and I went through what expat life actually entails: forming friendships as an adult, adapting to a culture very different from my own, managing homesickness while building a new home, finding professional footing in a new country.

That experience changed how I practise. I don't just understand cultural adjustment in theory, I've experienced it in my own life. I know what it's like to live between two worlds, to question whether you'll ever truly belong somewhere, and to work on fitting in without losing the parts of yourself that matter most.

It also taught me something I now carry into the room: people don't usually adapt by becoming someone new. They adapt by figuring out how to stay themselves under different conditions. That distinction shapes a lot of how I work.

How I work

I draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP), with a foundation in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). In plain terms: the work isn't about getting rid of difficult feelings (anxiety, grief, self-doubt...) or the patterns that follow you around (anger issues, procrastination, perfectionism...). It's about learning to relate to them differently, and acting in line with what matters to you, even when it's hard.

My goal is that, over time, you feel less reactive, more flexible, and more able to live the life you actually want: not because the hard feelings are gone, but because they're no longer organising their lives around avoiding them.

What's distinctive about how I practise?

A lot of the patterns you struggle with elsewhere also tend to show up in the therapy room: in what's hard to say, in what you find yourself doing when a topic gets close, in what happens when something I say doesn't quite land. I pay attention to that, gently, because it's often where some of the most useful work happens. We work with what comes up between us, not only with what you bring in to talk about.