João Carvalho
Psychologist
I am a Clinical Psychologist working online in english and portuguese language.
In my practice I provide my clients with a space where they can understand, develop, grow and change in positive ways.
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About me
I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with more than 4.000 hours experience in my clinical private practice. I work online and in presential sessions. I provide my clients with a warm space where they can understand, develop, grow and change themselves in positive ways. I work with a varied array of topics: self-esteem, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, unhelpful patterns in life, personality adaptations and maladaptive coping styles. Feel free to contact me for online sessions so we can understand whats stopping you of having a more satisfying, natural and meaningful life. Changes start with understanding. After we have that understanding or awareness we can start to move together towards positive changes in your life.
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Location:
Media Gallery
Approach
I consider myself an eclectic therapist. This means I use different interventions from different approaches to better suit my clients needs.
I find psychoanalytic interventions useful (the way relational knowledge we have from previous relationships influence our present relationships). I find cognitive-behavioural interventions useful (to see the way our thoughts and ways of thinking influence our emotions and behaviours). I find emotional interventions useful (exercises we can do together to explore the emotional and foster emotional change). I find Child Development very interesting and sometimes think it's important to see if there's arrested development back there in infancy and childhood and the way it can block from more personal growth in the present. I find Transational Analysis concepts useful (ego states, scripts). I find Mindfulness interventions useful (to practice acceptance of thoughts and feelings). I find ACT interventions useful (from mindfulness and work on values to discover whats meaningful in life and move towards meaningful goals).
What I really think is most important is to create a good-enough space with my patients, from where we can have the flexibility to experiment new and more positive ways of thinking, feeling and behaving towards a more fulfilled, satysfying and meaningful life.
Kind regards,
João
Experience
More than 4.000 sessions experience in my clinical private practice.
More than 10 years in Clinical Practice experience.
Education
2008 Clinical Psychology Degree from Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisboa
2010 Introduction to Clinical Practice and Psychological Evaluation in CSL (Clínica de Saúde de Lisboa)
2010 - present Clinical Psychologist private practice in Lisboa, Portugal
Services
Individual Session
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