Janete Maximiano

Special fields: Psychomotricity, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Psychomotor Assessment, Psychological Assessment

Age groups: Adults, children, adolescents

Consultations in Portuguese, English

Janete has an innate curiosity about movement and gestures. He often says that improvisation is the best tribute you can pay to movement.

She is interested in the unconscious and conscious processes of mind-body relationships, considering that opportunities for experience and experience with the external world are decisive for the construction of bodily identity and relational attitude.

She has a long experience working with children, adolescents and adults in a mental health context, where she tries to understand and integrate cognitive, psychomotor and emotional processes into the therapeutic process.

She became a psychomotricist to try to understand the conditioning factors of human action, using relaxation, expressive and gnoso-praxic techniques to promote the processes of body awareness and enhance change in the ability to act towards oneself and towards others.

She became a clinical psychologist with a psychodynamic orientation to better understand the unconscious dynamics that often block the ability to act and relate in a harmonious way.

Main areas of interest: Psychosomatic Disorders, Anxiety, Depression, Adjustment Reactions, Stress and Trauma, Personality Disorders, Psychology of Pregnancy and Infertility, Parenting, Autism, Psychomotor Agitation, Motor Coordination Disorders, and other Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Academic Training and professional experience

Degree in Special Education and Rehabilitation (currently Psychomotor Rehabilitation), Faculty of Human Motricity, University of Lisbon.

Master in Psychosomatics, Higher Institute of Applied Psychology.

Degree in Psychological Sciences and Master’s in clinical and health psychology, specialty in Dynamic Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon.

Postgraduate in Human Motricity, Rehabilitation area, Faculty of Human Motricity, University of Lisbon.

Provisional Member of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists (OPP) with registration number: 133142.

Effective Member of the Portuguese Psychomotricity Association, member number: 163.

Guest lecturer at the Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Psychomotor Rehabilitation, Faculty of Human Motricity, University of Lisbon (from 2009 to 2015)

Guest lecturer for the Master's in Psychomotricity, University of Évora (since 2018).

She works as a psychomotor specialist in a psychiatric service in a hospital context, in a multidisciplinary psychosocial rehabilitation team.

She works in clinical psychology and psychomotricity in a private context.