I am Isabella, Brazilian, graduated in Psychology in Brazil and currently living in Lisbon, where I obtained my Master's degree. I have been immersed in the world of psychology since 2017, and since then, my direction, listening, and clinical perspective have been aligned with Lacanian psychoanalysis. Throughout all these years dedicated to psychology, I have had numerous and significant experiences that have strongly contributed to the professional I am today. My first work experience in psychology was at the Women's Police Station in Belo Horizonte (Brazil), where I provided support to victims of domestic violence. I was also present at the Forensic Institute, where I provided care for children who were victims of sexual violence, and participated in a team of professionals preparing judicial reports on the criminal responsibility of law offenders. Still in Brazil, my most significant experience was in the therapeutic residential project for patients with severe psychosis, where I worked to promote the health and well-being of the residents, ensuring a humanized treatment, striving for social integration, and contributing to the development of autonomy and quality of life for each of the individuals there. In Portugal, I have experience working on an intervention project with children diagnosed with autism. Throughout this journey, clinical work has always been present. Therefore, combining my experiences, I can say that I know it is not easy, but I also know it doesn’t have to be that hard. I invite you, then, to embark on a confidential space of analysis in the face of the extraordinary challenges that life presents.
The psychoanalytic perspective pays attention to the complexity of individuals, the importance of relationships with the Other, and focuses on the unconscious, desiring dimension and the drive-driven body. When it comes to psychoanalysis, it inherently involves something that contains the desiring dimension. Desire, like the symptom, allows for the attribution of meaning to life. Therefore, psychoanalysis is not aimed at extinguishing individuals' symptoms as if they were discomforts to be cured, but rather at unveiling a drive-driven body that accommodates a subject who possesses knowledge about their own issues and seeks their unconscious truth. We start from there: the desire to make speak that which speaks in each one! After all, psychoanalysis begins with this desire: 'say whatever comes to mind' – the fundamental rule. The fact is that speaking in analysis is an experience. One does not speak anywhere as one speaks in analysis! Considering that there is no discontinuity in psychic life, my work is carried out with a humanized perspective, which does not align with indoctrination, rigid adherence to norms, or alienation.