Carina Brito da Mana

Special fields: Psychoanalysis, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Family and Couple Therapy.

Age groups: Adults, adolescents

Consultations in Portuguese, Spanish, English.

Trained and qualified to work with individuals and couples, Carina is interested in the unconscious processes that occur in couples' relationship. She identifies psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy as a possibility to transform a space of suffering, which is repetitive and sterilizing, into a creative and fertile intersubjective field.

She will work with you to find out why the interactions between you as a couple have developed in the way that they have.


Academic Training and professional experience

Clinical and Health Psychologist in SNS (National Health Service) and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in private practice.

IPSO Representative of Europe of IPA’s Committee on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis.

Member of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis.

Member of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists: specialist in Clinical and Health Psychology, and advanced specialist in Psychotherapy and in Early Intervention.

Training in Psychoanalysis by the Portuguese Society of Psychoanalysis (candidate member).

Training in L’Écoute Psychanalytique du Lien de Couple by the Association de la Psychanalyse de Liens (2019-2016).

Post-graduate in Interventions with Couples and Families from the University Institute of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires (2015).

Training in Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Psychotherapy, by Prof. Dr. Alberto EIGUER: monthly seminars in Paris (2012-2010) and clinical supervision (2016- 2012).

Training in Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Psychotherapy by the Portuguese Association of Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Psychotherapy (POIESIS), an association of which she was a co-founding member in 2009.

Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by the Portuguese Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

Degree in Clinical Psychology from the Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, where she completed her Master's degree.