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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

The pattern

the question is why this repeats, not only how to stop it this time.

The pattern

the question is why this repeats, not only how to stop it this time.

  • Confidential
  • Accepts insurance
  • Registered psychologists
  • ERS certified

What is it?

Psychodynamic therapy starts from the idea that much of what moves us is not available to awareness, and that patterns formed early go on organising today's relationships and choices. The work is to make those patterns visible, through what is told, what repeats, and what happens in the therapeutic relationship itself.

Who it is for

For relationship difficulties that repeat, for a persistent unease with no apparent cause, and for anyone who resolved the symptom elsewhere and watched it return in another form. It asks for willingness to do longer, less immediate work.

What a session looks like

There is less structure than in goal-directed therapy, and that is deliberate: what comes up unplanned is material. There are no exercises between sessions. The frequency is usually weekly and regular, because continuity is what lets a pattern appear instead of separate episodes. Online therapy in English, by video call, with an English-speaking therapist: for people in Portugal and for expats, wherever you live in Europe.

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Specialist professionals

Catarina Moço
Catarina Moço
Psychologist · Licence 5069
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Joana Oliveira
Joana Oliveira
Psychologist · Licence 30531
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The invoice for each consultation can be submitted to your health insurer for reimbursement, according to your plan. What you say in your sessions is confidential and never reaches the insurer.

faq

It shares the origins but is not the same. Classical psychoanalysis means several sessions a week and the couch; psychodynamic psychotherapy is usually weekly, face to face, and more focused on what brings you. It asks less in time and money without giving up looking underneath.

No. It starts from the present, almost always, and the history appears when it helps explain the present. A therapy that spends months in childhood without touching your life now is not doing the work, it is avoiding it.

It is usually longer than therapy focused on a symptom, and it makes no sense to promise otherwise. It is counted in months, and sometimes more. In exchange, what changes tends to hold, because it was not the episode that was treated.

No. You can book directly on our website or with Sofia, our virtual assistant, without any referral from your GP.

Online only for now, while our clinic in Cascais is being refurbished. We reopen in November, and in-person sessions return with it.

MB Way, Multibanco, debit or credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Revolut Pay. You can also pay at the clinic itself, in cash or by card, leaving a card on file as a guarantee for the booking. Any credit on your account is applied automatically to your next session.

We have no direct billing agreement with insurers, but we work on a reimbursement basis with the main Portuguese insurers and with ADSE. The invoice for each consultation can be submitted for reimbursement, according to your plan.

Yes. The discount applies automatically, with no sign-ups and no cards: from 5 sessions on you always have a discount, up to 20%.

Yes. Up to 24 hours before the session you can cancel and choose between a full refund to your original payment method or keeping the amount as credit. With less than 24 hours notice there is no refund, but the amount stays as credit valid for 90 days. Rescheduling is possible up to 24 hours before, at no cost.

Yes. All data is processed in accordance with GDPR and the professional confidentiality psychologists are bound by. Our data protection policy explains what we collect, what it is for and how you can exercise your rights.

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