Fernanda

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

I am a licensed psychoanalyst in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I provide individual therapy for clients facing abuse, adoption issues, mood disorders, relocation, expat adjustment, and LGBTQI+ matters. I offer clinical supervision for therapists and trainees.

Approach

Sessions move at your pace—gentle curiosity and careful listening help us untangle family histories, migration strains, and the effects of abuse or loss. Meeting in my Ipanema office or online in English, Portuguese and Spanish, we shape a steady rhythm: reflective dialogue during sessions and brief practical reflections between meetings when useful. I attend closely to recurring relationship patterns, cultural dislocation and identity threads, using those discoveries to open new choices. This approach suits adolescents and adults facing relocation, adoption questions, mood shifts or trauma who seek a sustained, thoughtful process.
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Basic Information

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:

  • Clinical Supervision
  • Corporate Workshops
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Individual Therapy
  • Supervision

Works With:

  • Adolescents
  • Adults
  • Individuals
  • Organisations

Area of Expertise


Scope of Practice:

  • Abuse
  • Adoption
  • Cross-Cultural
  • Mood Disorder
  • Relocation / Expat
  • LGBTQI+ Support
  • Trauma

Professional Title:

  • Psychoanalyst

Qualifications


Circulo Brasileiro de Psicanálise - CBP-RJ

Registrations


Círculo Brasileiro de Psicanálise

Psychoanalyst

Grupo Brasileiro de Pesquisas Sandor Ferenczi

Member

Service Area


Ipanema

In-person & Online

Ipanema

Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

Brazil