Specialist support for motherhood and maternal mental health, emotional difficulties, relationship challenges, life transitions and the experience of living abroad.
Individual therapy
Couples therapy
Online therapy
Therapy in Portuguese
Therapy in English
Each person, a path of their own.
We blend approaches — humanistic, integrative, and CBT — around what genuinely fits you.
Motherhood & Maternal Mental Health
Becoming and being a mother is one of life's most profound transitions — beautiful, demanding and often quietly overwhelming. Catia offers specialist support across the whole arc: fertility journeys and loss, pregnancy, birth experiences, the postnatal period, matrescence and the longer work of mothering. A space to be held while you tend to everyone else.
Common signs
Fertility struggles or pregnancy loss
Antenatal or postnatal anxiety and depression
Birth trauma or difficult birth experiences
Identity shifts and matrescence
Guilt, overwhelm and invisible mental load
Rage, intrusive thoughts or feeling 'not yourself'
Anxiety often shows up as a body that won't quite settle and a mind that won't quite rest — including the particular, heightened anxiety many women carry through fertility, pregnancy and early motherhood. Therapy can help you understand what your anxiety is trying to protect, and gently soften its grip.
Depression can quietly drain colour from daily life — including perinatal and postnatal depression, when joy is expected and instead you find heaviness. A confidential space to be heard, alongside a structured therapeutic approach, can help meaning slowly return.
When stress becomes the background hum of life, the nervous system rarely gets to rest. Therapy offers space to understand what is being asked of you and what could be released.
Panic can feel as though the body is sounding a fire alarm without warning. Therapy can help you understand the patterns and slowly meet panic with steadier ground.
Patterns in our closest relationships often hold the most tender material — especially after a baby arrives, when intimacy, roles and the division of care can shift overnight. Therapy gives those patterns a place to be looked at, individually or as a couple.
Bullying — at work, school or online — can leave a long imprint on self-worth. Therapy is a space to feel safely heard and to begin restoring confidence.
Family stories shape us in ways we don't always see, and often surface most strongly when we become parents ourselves. Therapy invites a kind, curious look at the patterns we inherited and the ones we'd like to change before passing them on.
When the inner voice is harsh, even small things can feel heavy — and motherhood can amplify it, with comparison, guilt and the impossible standard of the 'good mother'. Therapy helps you understand where that voice came from — and slowly, find a kinder one.
Living through abuse asks for a particularly careful, respectful therapeutic space. Sessions move at your pace, with safety and confidentiality at the centre.
Building a life in a new country can be quietly exhausting. Therapy offers a place to put words to homesickness, identity shifts and the work of belonging.
If starting therapy feels like a big step, this page is for you. Here's what the process gently looks like.
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First contact
It begins with a short, confidential message through the form. There's no pressure — you can write only what feels comfortable.
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The first session
A space to share what brings you to therapy, ask questions and see whether the relationship feels right.
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Ongoing sessions
Usually weekly, 50 minutes for individual therapy. Couples sessions may be longer. Available online or in person where possible.
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Confidentiality
Held to BPS and BACP ethical standards. What is shared in the room stays in the room.
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Online therapy
Sessions are available across the UK, Europe, the US and beyond — from the comfort of your own space.
Questions you may have
Yes. Sessions are held within strict ethical confidentiality, in line with BPS and BACP standards.
Yes — therapy is offered in Brazilian Portuguese and in English.
Yes. Online sessions are available across the UK, Europe and beyond.
Individual sessions are 50 minutes. Couples sessions may run a little longer.
No. Online therapy makes it possible to work together from many countries.
Use the contact form — you'll hear back from Catia personally.
Therapy in Portuguese for Brazilians in the UK
Catia is a Brazilian therapist in the UK offering Portuguese speaking therapy — online psychotherapy in Portuguese for Brazilians in London and abroad. She has particular expertise in motherhood and perinatal mental health, supporting women through fertility, pregnancy, postnatal adjustment and matrescence. Sessions are also available in English for adults and couples.
