Psychoanalyst Simone.com

My Background

My academic path began with a degree in Letters at the University of São Paulo, where I studied literature, language, and linguistics. This early training strongly influenced the way I listen, think, and make sense of human experience, particularly through attention to language and meaning.

I later trained in counselling and psychotherapy, where my interest in the complexity of the human mind deepened. It was during this period that I encountered psychoanalysis and became drawn to its depth and its distinctive way of approaching psychological suffering.

Within psychoanalysis, I engaged with the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, as well as wider depth-psychological perspectives. My clinical work is grounded in classical psychoanalysis, and integrates contemporary understandings of how emotional life and brain processes interact.

My focus is on exploring the unconscious forces that shape behaviour, emotional experience, and recurring personal difficulties. Throughout my professional development, I have remained committed to understanding the meaning behind psychological distress, unresolved inner conflicts, and repetitive patterns that restrict personal freedom and fulfilment.

To expand this understanding further, I pursued studies in neuropsychoanalysis and evolutionary psychology. These fields allowed me to connect subjective experience with the body, the brain, and our evolutionary history, offering a more integrated view of how biology, culture, language, and meaning come together in human life.

My way of working is grounded in careful listening to the reality of psychic life, including its conflicts, contradictions, resistances and repetitions. Rather than offering ready-made solutions, I attend to emotional truth and to the meanings that emerge throughout the sessions. From this perspective, change comes from bringing unconscious processes into awareness, allowing insight to gradually reshape experience in a lasting and meaningful way.

Higher Education

• BA in Letters (Linguistics & Literature) – University of São Paulo.
• Licentiate in Letters – University of São Paulo.

Professional Development & Certifications

• Neuropsychoanalysis – Oxford University
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• Psychoanalysis and Art – Oxford University.
• Evolutionary Psychology - Liverpool University
• Advanced Certificate in Psychotherapy & Counselling - UK Level 4 Framework.
• Foundations in Psychotherapy and Counselling - UK Level 4 Framework.

CPD

. Understanding Suicide and Suicide Prevention – LC & CTA

. Working with Loss and Bereavement – WPF Therapy

. Dreams and Dreaming: A user’s Working with Dreams in Counselling and Psychotherapy – WPF Therapy

. Dissociative States and Child Abuse – WPF Therapy