Rita Matos Dias

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About me and my therapy practice

I aim to catalize my client鈥檚 process towards flexibility, serenity, and fulfilment. I do this collaboratively, exploring their feelings, beliefs, journey, and goals, with a view to expand choice and growthful experiences. Our collaboration manifests by setting realistic expectations as we define goals together; wandering and wondering in a process where we are both explorers; respecting their pace and the territories they might (or not) wish to tread at certain times; exploring past and present interactions, including ours; recurrently checking whether I understood them and how they experience 鈥渦s鈥�; regularly reviewing our work and preparing its ending. This work takes time and patience and is often not linear. Psychotherapy is a gentle, albeit challenging, incremental, and far-sighted process. Our brains need healing interventions and time to form new adaptative connections. Supported exploration of what is and could be, can be transformative.

Practice description

I am an Integrative Psychotherapist with a background in Developmental Neuroscience. As an integrative practitioner, I draw from a variety of theories and types of interventions, tailored to each client. Still, at the core of my practice lies the therapeutic relationship, with the evidence-based view that this is key in bringing about positive change. Human suffering often arises from relationships, the flip side being that a therapeutic relationship can be healing. I offer short-term, long-term, and open-ended psychotherapy to individuals. I have worked with a wide range of clients, distinct in age, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity, faith, life-stage, profession, etc. Issues I have worked with include anxiety, depression, suicidality, eating disorders, substance abuse, self-harm, loss, divorce, bereavement, obsessive compulsion, hypochondria, phobias, trauma, bullying, life changes, low self-esteem, enmeshment, insecure attachment, physical or neuro-diversity.

My first session

The first session or two will likely be more structured as I will have a specific set of questions to gain some understanding about your background.

What I can help with

Abuse, ADD / ADHD, Addictions, Adoption, Anger management, Anxiety, Autism spectrum, Baby loss, Bereavement, Child related issues, Coercive control, Cultural issues, Depression, Eating disorders, Health related issues, Identity issues, Infertility, Loss, Menopause, Mood disorder, Narcissism, Neurodiversity, Obsessions, OCD, Personal development, Pet bereavement, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy related issues, Redundancy, Relationships, Self esteem, Self-harm, Sensory impairment, Severe mental illness (SMI), Sex-related issues, Sexuality, Stalking, Stress, Substance Dependency, Trauma, Women's issues, Work related issues

Types of therapy

Brief therapy, CBT, Cognitive, Existential, Humanistic, Integrative, Internal Family Systems, Interpersonal, Person centred, Phenomenological, Psychodynamic, Relational

Clients I work with

Adults, Older adults, Trainees

How I deliver therapy

Long term sessions, Long-term face-to-face work, Online therapy, Short term sessions, Short-term face-to-face work, Time-limited

Languages spoken

English, Portuguese

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