Mónica Leal Loureiro
Special fields: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Psychological Assessment
Age groups: Adults, children, adolescents
Consultations in Portuguese, English
She has always felt a great interest in understanding the other, the relationship and the phenomena, often unconscious, that lead us to encounter, or mismatch, with our dreams, goals, personal development, and autonomy. She believes we reach maximum freedom when we can free ourselves from our own “binds” and that psychotherapy can be fundamental in this process. She considers Psychology as a privileged area of intervention and promotion of mental health”.
Main Areas of Interest: Eating disorders, Perinatal disorders, Mood disorders, Anxiety disorders, Obsessive disorders, Personality disorders, Adaptive disorders, stress management, burn out and self-care; Grief and gestational grief.
Academic Training and Professional Experience
Monica is a full member of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists, a specialist in clinical and health psychology, with advanced specialties in Psychotherapy and Community Intervention;
Degree in Applied Psychology (Clinical area) and advanced training in assessment, diagnosis and intervention methodologies in children, adolescents and adults.
She has been practicing clinically since finishing her degree, initially more focused on childhood and adolescence, especially in the areas of Special Educational Needs, Health Psychology and Eating Disorders, which she nowadays combines with the practice of psychology in Community Intervention, in adult population.
With a career spanning around 18 years, she has worked since finishing her degree, always in a hospital context, as a psychologist in different Adult Psychiatry services. She also practices clinical psychology in a multidisciplinary consultation specializing in Eating Disorders and also maintains clinical practice as a psychotherapist on a private basis.
Currently, she also works as a member of the Regional Coordination of Mental Health in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley area, as a psychologist representing the professional category, and is a trainer for the Order of Portuguese Psychologists, in courses for full members and in the Junior Professional Year.
She is the author and co-author of several communications at scientific meetings, as well as several scientific publications in national and international magazines.