If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or mental health clinic. If you are in crisis, these helplines can help:
Crisis numbers in Brazil
- CVV – Centro de Valorização da Vida, 188, day and night: Tel: 188, answered 24 hours a day, at no call cost.
- Pode Falar, for ages 13 to 24: WhatsApp: +55 61 9660-8843
- All crisis lines in Brazil
This page lists Depression Psychoanalysts in Sao Paulo. 3 in all.
How depression is treated
Effective psychological treatments include behavioural activation and cognitive-behavioural therapy 1. Interpersonal psychotherapy and problem-solving therapy are also used. In the World Health Organization's words: ‘Psychological treatments are the first treatments for depression.’ ‘They can be combined with antidepressant medicines in moderate and severe depression.’
Effective treatment exists for mild, moderate and severe depression. A depressive episode means low mood, or loss of interest in things you enjoyed. It lasts most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks.
Low mood after a loss or a hard year is not automatically a disorder, though support can help. Ask a practitioner what they would suggest, and why.
What a psychoanalyst does, and how often the sessions run
Everyone on this page describes their work as psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic therapy. You talk as freely as you can, and the analyst listens for patterns. The analyst also listens for how those patterns appear between you both.
Analysis usually means several meetings a week, agreed between you and the analyst. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy uses the same ideas once or twice a week.
The work runs open-ended rather than to a fixed number of sessions.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the specialism recorded as Depression and the professional title psychoanalyst.
The Sao Paulo page answers more questions about therapy there.
What therapy costs here
Do affordable options exist in Sao Paulo?
UBS Vila Olímpia - Max Perlman. Phone +55 11 5237-9605. Care at this UBS is free for the population through SUS. This is municipal primary care, open to all. You can walk in, or be referred within the clinic's area.
Who registers therapists in Brazil?
See the Brazil page for the professions that do carry a register there.
Nearby places and related listings
- Depression Psychologists in Sao Paulo
- Depression Psychotherapists in Sao Paulo
- Female Psychologists in Sao Paulo, one filter on the full Sao Paulo psychologists list
- Psychologists in Sao Paulo
- Every therapist listed in Sao Paulo (34)
- Marriage counselling in Sao Paulo
References
Real choice. Authentic, independent, clinician-led care.
TherapyRoute is a clinician-led directory that champions independent practitioners who answer to you and their professional ethics. We don't take commissions, sell your data, or assign therapists by algorithm. You browse, compare, and choose.
Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)