Meet Catia Lopes
Brazilian psychologist and psychotherapist offering a safe therapeutic space in Portuguese and English.
A short introduction
Catia is an experienced psychologist and psychotherapist who specialises in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She brings together academic training and clinical experience from Brazil and the UK across private practice, public and voluntary settings.
She works with adults and couples and offers therapy in Brazilian Portuguese and in English, with particular expertise in motherhood and maternal mental health — fertility journeys, pregnancy, the postnatal period, matrescence and the identity shifts of becoming and being a mother — alongside the experience of living abroad.
Therapeutic approach
Therapy is shaped to each person — drawing on Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy and CBT, and honouring the whole of you: emotions, thoughts, body, history, relationships and environment. The therapeutic relationship itself is the ground from which change becomes possible.
Credentials and trust
Psychology background
Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
BPS Member
BACP Member
Portuguese & English
Online sessions available
Adults & couples
Understanding the emotional complexity of living away from home.
Building a life in another country can be quietly demanding — language, identity, distance from loved ones, the slow work of belonging. Catia brings this understanding into the therapy room with warmth and respect.