Ms Fernanda Ribeiro de Freitas
Psychoanalyst
“As a skilled practitioner, with 10+ years experience I offer a compassionate space where you can explore your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, uncovering patterns and resolving inner conflicts. Together, we'll navigate your unique journey, exploring your inner world with openness and respect.”
About Me
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Services
Navigating life between cultures can be enriching, but it can also bring deep emotional challenges. As a psychoanalyst skilled in trauma related to cross-cultural experiences and language barriers, I provide a supportive space where you can process feelings of displacement, identity struggles, and the emotional weight of adapting to new languages and cultural norms.
Together, we will explore how past experiences shape your present, uncover patterns of emotional distress, and work through feelings of isolation, anxiety, or loss. Whether you are an immigrant, expatriate, or someone living between languages and identities, our work will help you regain a sense of belonging, self-understanding, and emotional resilience.
Services Offered:
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Clinical Supervision
Professional oversight and reflective practice for clinical practitioners, ensuring quality of care and supporting ongoing development.
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Corporate Workshops
Mental health and well-being workshops delivered in workplace settings, covering topics like stress management, resilience, and communication.
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Psychoanalysis
An in-depth therapy that explores unconscious patterns, early experiences, and inner conflicts to produce lasting psychological change, typically involving frequent sessions.
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Individual Therapy
One-on-one therapy sessions between a client and a therapist, focused on that person's specific concerns and goals.
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Supervision
Professional oversight for therapists and counsellors, providing guidance, ethical support, and reflective space for their clinical work.
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Works With:
- •Adolescents
- •Adults
- •Individuals
- •Organisations
Area of Expertise
Scope of Practice:
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Abuse
Emotional, physical, or sexual mistreatment by another person that causes lasting psychological harm and disrupts a person's sense of safety.
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Adoption
The process of legally becoming a parent to a child who is not biologically yours, which can raise complex emotions around identity, attachment, and belonging for all involved.
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Cross-Cultural
The psychological challenges of living between two or more cultures, including identity conflicts, acculturation stress, and difficulties with belonging.
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Mood Disorder
A category of mental health conditions, including depression and bipolar disorder, in which a person's emotional state is significantly and persistently disrupted.
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Relocation / Expat
The psychological challenges of moving to a new country or city, including loneliness, culture shock, identity shifts, and loss of social support.
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LGBTQI+ Support
The unique psychological experiences of LGBTQI+ individuals, including identity exploration, coming out, discrimination, minority stress, and relationship dynamics.
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Trauma
The lasting psychological impact of deeply distressing events, such as violence, abuse, accidents, or disasters, that overwhelm a person's ability to cope.
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Professional Title:
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Psychoanalyst
A therapist trained in psychoanalysis, an in-depth approach that explores unconscious patterns, early experiences, and inner conflicts.
Qualifications
Circulo Brasileiro de Psicanálise - CBP-RJ
Registrations
Círculo Brasileiro de Psicanálise
Psychoanalyst
Grupo Brasileiro de Pesquisas Sandor Ferenczi
Member