Portugal has become a significant destination for remote workers, retirees, and people in transition, and the English-speaking therapy infrastructure has not kept pace. Lisbon has some options. Porto has fewer. Anywhere else, the pool is thin. For sustained depth work in English, online is usually the better practical route.
I work with anyone who needs support in English and is living in Portugal. Relationship difficulties, a low you can't quite name, a life that's in transition, something you've been avoiding for years. Portugal draws people looking for a fresh start: retirement, a career reset, something simpler. A fresh start is only as fresh as what you brought with you.
If what you moved toward and what you're actually living don't match, we can work with that. If what you're dealing with has nothing to do with being here, that's also fine.
The work
The work I do is relational and pattern-focused. I don't run through intake checklists or assign exercises between sessions. I pay attention to what happens in the room: what you're saying, what you're not saying, the moments when something shifts or goes flat or speeds up. That's the material we work with.
Most people arrive already knowing the story of their situation. They've told it to themselves a hundred times and always land in the same place. What's missing is a different angle, someone watching in real time who can name what's invisible from inside it. That's what I offer. Not interpretation from a distance, but attention in the room, offered as it happens.
I work with individuals and couples. Individual work is usually about finding the pattern underneath the presenting problem, the thing that keeps recurring in different forms across different circumstances. Couples work is about finding what the argument is really about, which is rarely what it appears to be about. Both come down to the same thing: seeing what you haven't been able to see, and from there, actually being able to do something different.
Being in Portugal
Portugal has a particular quality: warm, affordable, beautiful, and slower to enter socially than the surface suggests. The expat community is large and often somewhat self-contained, which can create a social life without much real depth. The belonging to actual Portuguese life takes longer than most people expect.
For couples who relocated here together, Portugal can work very differently for each person. The person who pushed for the move is often doing better than the person who followed. That asymmetry is worth naming before it becomes the structure of the relationship.
If any of that is part of what you're carrying, we can work with it. If what brings you is something else, that's fine.
What people bring to online therapy
The people I work with in English come for a wide range of reasons: anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, anger management, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, loneliness, self-esteem issues, procrastination, sleep problems, attachment patterns, self-sabotage, perfectionism, identity questions, and existential concerns. Online counseling makes this work possible from wherever you are, whether you need an English-speaking therapist, a virtual counselor, or simply someone who can work in your language at a depth that matters.
How it works
Sessions are online via secure video call. I work with individuals and couples (60 minutes). Before your first session, we have a brief 15-minute call to see if this feels like the right fit for you.