Angelica is a Clinical Psychologist with 20 years of experience in couples therapy and trauma treatment. Her aim is to foster both individual and relational healing. As an integral psychotherapist with training background from Brazil, USA, and Australia her holistic method integrates all systems within a person, drawing from approaches such as Internal Family Systems (IFS), Schema, Gestalt, Emotionally-Focused (EFT) and Transactional Analysis (TA).
As a certified couples therapist exposed to psychoanalytical psychology and training from the leading experts in the field of psychological trauma, relationships, intimacy and adult attachment, Angelica brings a sound perspective to relationship counselling. She uses powerful relationship therapy models to heal, improve and help couples overcome the universal challenges of modern relationships. She has guided hundreds of couples through challenges like emotional distance, intimacy, infidelity, conflict, neurodiversity, and cross-cultural dynamics. Her empowering approach to sexuality is based on sexual equity, promoting healthy sexuality where both partners find shared pleasure and connection.
With extensive training under renowned experts such as Esther Perel, Terry Real, Sue Johnson, Richard Schwartz, Peter Levine, Janina Fisher and Gabor Maté, Angelica brings a deeply informed perspective to her work. She combines trauma-focused interventions with a caring, empathic approach, helping individuals to process physiologically and relationally in the present moment to create healing in their lives. She believes that deep therapist-client work, coupled with interpersonal exploration is at the core of transformative healing.
Angelica’s recent supervisors include Janina Fisher and Martha Kaupi, further enhancing her expertise in trauma, intimacy and relational dynamics.
Angelica is also interested in the emerging field of metabolic psychiatry and how metabolic health influences mental wellness. She is particularly drawn to the mind-body connection and how factors like nutrition, inflammation, hormones and insulin resistance impact mood, cognition, and emotional resilience.