Rodrigo Pires

Research shows that therapists should adapt to each client's personal characteristics and preferred style of therapy, so I aim to be responsive to my clients. This means balancing between a less directive approach—respecting my client’s pace—and being more structured and directive when that’s what the client expects or needs from me.This means collaboratively exploring with my client the balance between a less directive approach—respecting their pace—and a more structured and directive style, when that’s what they need or prefer. Together, we decide on the best approach, ensuring that it aligns with their goals and personal comfort in the therapeutic process.

I strongly favor evidence-based methods for behavior change, which is why I'm a strong advocate of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). CBT emphasizes the importance of working with thinking patterns that may lead to problematic behaviors and uses behavior modification techniques to help us understand and influence how we think, feel, and act.

I believe that therapy is a space where both the therapist and client encounter themselves, offering a fundamental opportunity to work together in a way that promotes the client's well-being and supports how they navigate their life. To ensure that, I try to bring to the session an openness to feeling and vulnerability, the intention to understand without judgment, and the commitment to bring compassion and empathy to the foreground of the process.