D Wiltshire Soares

I combine mainly two therapeutic approaches:

• Systemic Therapy: how your relationships—family, work, and social environments—affect your emotional health and development. By understanding these dynamics, we can change patterns and foster connection.

• Winnicottian Psychoanalysis: It focuses on early relationships, particularly those formed before we could speak (pre-verbal development). It helps us explore how early emotional experiences shape our sense of self and how catering to these past wounds can reconnect you with a sense of more authenticity.

Additionally i use tools from mindfulness, which teaches you to perceive the present moment through sensations, ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy), EFT (emotions-focused therapy) and Schematherapy on my approach.

I am commited to a decolonial approach to psychotherapy.

I graduated with a degree in Psychology from UFRJ in 2006, specializing in Winnicottian Psychoanalysis. For over a decade, I worked in counseling at the European School in Berlin, supporting young people and their families. I have also lectured as an expert on LGBTQIA+ identities in education at various institutions across Berlin. I hold the title of Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie (Non-Medical Practitioner for Psychotherapy), awarded by the Berlin Health Authority, and am currently completing a specialisation in Systemic Therapy at the Systemic Institute for Mindfulness (SIA Berlin).

2006 Psychology at UFRJ (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

2006-2008 Seminars at the Psychoanalytical Society SPID (Rio de Janeiro)

2014-2024 Several courses in the field of counselling + social work

2023 Alternative practicioner of psychotherapy (Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie)

2023 Systemischer Therapeut i.W. (SIA - Berlin)

Member of the Association of Independent Psychotherapists, Alternative Practitioners for Psychotherapy and Psychological Counselors e.V. (VFP Germany)