Most couples don’t break down because they don’t love each other. They break down because what they feel doesn’t move. In my work with couples, I often explain emotions in a simple way: Emotion is energy in motion. When an emotion is allowed — felt in the body, named honestly, expressed safely — it moves. […]

**Innate Entitlement Framework™: Remembering the Right to Exist, Be Met, and Take Up Space A Personal Reflection For a long time, I believed that something was wrong with me. I felt deeply. I noticed everything. I carried responsibility early. I cared intensely about others, often more than I cared about myself. And somewhere along the […]

I’ve always believed that life leaves us clues — little signs that we’re moving in the right direction, even when everything feels impossible. And nothing felt more impossible than the moment I first decided I wanted to go to London. Because the truth is simple and brutal: I didn’t have a penny. Not for the […]

There wasn’t one single moment that made me leave Brazil. It was a collection of moments, feelings, and deep truths that built up inside me like waves — until they could no longer be ignored. But there was one moment when I knew: I can’t live here. Not like this. Not as myself. One of […]

When I work with my clients — whether they come to therapy for anxiety, depression, stress, low self-esteem, relationship issues, or simply wanting to reconnect with themselves — there is one deep truth I always return to: the most important relationship you will ever have is the relationship you have with yourself. The way you […]

When I was growing up, my environment was unpredictable. There were times when it was very, very good — full of warmth, love, and laughter. And there were other times when it was deeply painful and chaotic. In that environment, I learned to sense people deeply, to read the energy in the room, and to […]

In my childhood, when I was first faced with the reality of life and death, I remember thinking: “is mother nature having a laugh? How am I supposed to live life pretending nothing is going to happen? How can I now continue going with the flow and hoping for the best? How can I get over the […]

Accordingly to a review of published studies, one of the consensus highlighting the significance of chronic pain in the UK, suggests that up to 8 million people in the UK live with chronic pain (htt://tinyurl.com/z95wqoy). Pain represents a cascade of physiological, immunological, cognitive and behavioural effects, with an important emotional/affective component. In addition, psychological factors can […]