Clinical work

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Who do I work with? I work with adults navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, neurodivergence, grief, identity, and life and career transitions. I work with people who feel emotionally overwhelmed, disconnected from themselves, caught in old patterns, or uncertain of their direction, those carrying relational wounds, shifting identities, a chronic sense of not belonging, or the longing to reach their full potential and become who they really are.

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I work with adolescents finding language for what they feel. With parents, partners, immigrants, thinkers, feelers, and builders of quiet resilience.

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And I work with women in midlife, through the menopause transition, a passage women have too often been left to navigate alone, and one that is finally claiming its voice, visibility, and power. A time when the body refuses to keep holding what it was never meant to carry alone.

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A transdiagnostic approach

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My approach is transdiagnostic. Rather than treating each label in isolation, I work with the underlying processes that cut across diagnoses: emotional dysregulation, trauma responses, attachment patterns, avoidance, shame, and disrupted self-narratives. This allows the work to reach what is actually driving a person's suffering, not only what fits within a category.

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Whether you arrive with a name already attached or come looking for one: PTSD and complex trauma, panic and anxiety disorders, mood disorders, ADHD, autism, burnout, attachment wounds, questions of life and purpose, a diagnosis could be the starting point, but it is not the destination. What matters is the story beneath the symptom: what the body has been holding, what the family line has been carrying, and what you have been asked to suppress in order to remain functional.

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Therapies provided

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I work within an integrative, evidence-based frame, drawing on the approach each person actually needs rather than applying a single method to everyone. Within that frame, I integrate Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR, advanced level), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Schema Therapy, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), held together by psychodynamic depth, trauma-informed practice, and neurodiversity-affirming care.

 

I also work through a decolonial lens. Mainstream psychology was built on largely Western and individualist assumptions about what a healthy mind should look like, assumptions that can pathologise the very ways people have survived migration, racism, displacement, and the erasure of their cultures. A decolonial perspective takes that history seriously: it locates distress not only inside the individual but in the systems of power that shaped them, makes room for non-Western ways of knowing and healing, and refuses to treat a person's response to oppression as a disorder to be corrected. It means honouring ancestry, lineage, and cultural memory as part of the clinical picture, not background noise.

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I am also passionate about psychoeducation, skill development, and practical strategies that support greater self-awareness and agency. My clinical style is genuinely collaborative ,warm, dialogical, and responsive.

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What I believe about therapy

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I believe therapy is most useful when it is collaborative, formulation-driven, and willing to take a person's whole context seriously: their nervous system, their history, their lineage, their gender, their neurotype, their grief, their unspoken rage, and the cultural systems that taught them to shrink. The work is to witness, actively, accurately, and with care, people reclaiming what was always theirs.

At the heart of my work is the intention that therapy becomes a real human encounter: not a performance, but a space where we meet with radical presence and acceptance. From that safe and genuine place, therapy becomes an act of creation, a space where a more coherent, self-authored sense of self can be imagined, shaped, and lived. I believe that with my whole heart.

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The person

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I was born into a multiethnic lineage: Italian on my father's side, Portuguese and deeply Indigenous on my mother's. I believe ancestry matters. I believe the body remembers what the mind sometimes cannot.

I am a mother, a partner, and someone who finds joy in art, cooking, nature, music, cats, and all forms of human expression, the soft, wild things that make life feel alive. I see myself, and I see you, as something far beyond roles or social labels: a living possibility, a work in progress, a free and shifting kaleidoscope.

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I'm not here to help you simply fit in. I am here to help you come home to yourself  to live with authenticity, with freedom, and with the quiet authority of a person who has finally stopped asking permission to exist.

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What might become possible if you could begin to live beyond what you inherited, defended against, or learned to survive?

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