Brenda Mate

In my sessions, clients find a safe, non-judgmental space to be authentic, to speak, feel, and explore what’s been too heavy to carry alone. There’s no need to filter or hide. Therapy is where your pain can be met with understanding, not shame, and where healing begins.

Over seven years of clinical experience working with women, couples, adolescents and families from diverse cultural backgrounds. Extensive experience supporting clients through anxiety, emotional overload, relationship difficulties, grief, identity transitions and motherhood related challenges. Clinical practice includes perinatal care from preconception to postpartum, as well as work with family dynamics and life transitions. Professional experience is marked by work with clients from different nationalities, requiring high cultural sensitivity, ethical responsibility and adaptability. Experience includes individual psychotherapy, emotional assessment, clinical listening and long term therapeutic processes, grounded in psychoanalytic and integrative frameworks.

Licensed Clinical Psychologist CRP 05/74832 - Universidade Santa Úrsula, Brasil Specialized in Perinatal and Parental Psychology - Instituto MaterOnline Gender Inequalities and Social Problems - Marmara University, Turkey Intercultural Psychology - University of Johannesburg, South Africa