Silvia Acosta
Counsellor
Available for new clients
I specialize in:
At a glance
About me
Born in Argentina, I trained there as a psychologist and psychoanalyst. I studied psychology at the University of Belgrano, where I also did my PhD.
I finished my training as a psychoanalyst at the Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina (APA) and I am currently a psychoanalyst member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) for Argentina and Portugal. I currently live in Lisbon and, although I have my own practice, I have specialized in online psychoanalysis for the last 5 years. I work with patients in Spanish, English and Portuguese. My patients live in different parts of the world where we learn to connect in different languages and from different cultures.
I am a member of the Gender and Sexual Diversity Studies Committee of the IPA and I have worked for more than 15 years with survivors of sexual and psychological abuse. My work is ethically focused on supporting the healing process of people at risk, members of minorities and survivors of different forms of trauma.
Through my life experience I also work to support the adjustment processes of expat and migrant families, helping to establish safe environments and trusting relationships to emotionally sustain these life transitions.
I speak:
EnglishPortugueseSpanish
Location:
Lisbon, Portugal
Approach
Treatment Approaches
Integrative therapy Recommended for those who prefer a flexible approach that combines different therapies to meet their unique needs.
PsychoanalysisRecommended for those who want to explore how their unconscious mind and early experiences affect their current behaviors and feelings.
Although my psychoanalytic training has trained me for long and high frequency therapeutic processes, online work in traumatic environments or in migratory processes has given me the experience to delimit narrow work approaches, linked to particular goals and crises elaboration.
The focus is always on helping each patient to face the life challenges ahead, to accompany the different processes of change and to assist in the creation of safe environments from a perspective of subjective elaboration and self-realization. Sometimes these processes are individual, other times they are relational, and we are delineating the most appropriate device in each situation.
Services
Individual Session
€70 • 1 hr • Online
Insurances
Private PayReimbursement
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I look forward to meeting you!
Next available: Apr 6