Fernanda

Ms Fernanda Ribeiro de Freitas

Psychoanalyst

As a skilled practitioner, with 10+ years experience I offer a compassionate space where you can explore your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, uncovering patterns and resolving inner conflicts. Together, we'll navigate your unique journey, exploring your inner world with openness and respect.

About Me

I am a licensed psychoanalyst in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I provide individual therapy for clients facing abuse, adoption issues, mood disorders, relocation, expat adjustment, and LGBTQI+ matters. I offer clinical supervision for therapists and trainees.

Approach

Sessions move at your pace—gentle curiosity and careful listening help us untangle family histories, migration strains, and the effects of abuse or loss. Meeting in my Ipanema office or online in English, Portuguese and Spanish, we shape a steady rhythm: reflective dialogue during sessions and brief practical reflections between meetings when useful. I attend closely to recurring relationship patterns, cultural dislocation and identity threads, using those discoveries to open new choices. This approach suits adolescents and adults facing relocation, adoption questions, mood shifts or trauma who seek a sustained, thoughtful process.
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In-person & Online

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Services

Navigating life between cultures can be enriching, but it can also bring deep emotional challenges. As a psychoanalyst skilled in trauma related to cross-cultural experiences and language barriers, I provide a supportive space where you can process feelings of displacement, identity struggles, and the emotional weight of adapting to new languages and cultural norms.

Together, we will explore how past experiences shape your present, uncover patterns of emotional distress, and work through feelings of isolation, anxiety, or loss. Whether you are an immigrant, expatriate, or someone living between languages and identities, our work will help you regain a sense of belonging, self-understanding, and emotional resilience.

Services Offered:

  • Clinical Supervision

    Professional oversight and reflective practice for clinical practitioners, ensuring quality of care and supporting ongoing development.

  • Corporate Workshops

    Mental health and well-being workshops delivered in workplace settings, covering topics like stress management, resilience, and communication.

  • Psychoanalysis

    An in-depth therapy that explores unconscious patterns, early experiences, and inner conflicts to produce lasting psychological change, typically involving frequent sessions.

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  • Individual Therapy

    One-on-one therapy sessions between a client and a therapist, focused on that person's specific concerns and goals.

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  • Supervision

    Professional oversight for therapists and counsellors, providing guidance, ethical support, and reflective space for their clinical work.

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Works With:

  • Adolescents
  • Adults
  • Individuals
  • Organisations

Area of Expertise

Scope of Practice:

  • Abuse

    Emotional, physical, or sexual mistreatment by another person that causes lasting psychological harm and disrupts a person's sense of safety.

  • Adoption

    The process of legally becoming a parent to a child who is not biologically yours, which can raise complex emotions around identity, attachment, and belonging for all involved.

  • Cross-Cultural

    The psychological challenges of living between two or more cultures, including identity conflicts, acculturation stress, and difficulties with belonging.

  • Mood Disorder

    A category of mental health conditions, including depression and bipolar disorder, in which a person's emotional state is significantly and persistently disrupted.

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  • Relocation / Expat

    The psychological challenges of moving to a new country or city, including loneliness, culture shock, identity shifts, and loss of social support.

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  • LGBTQI+ Support

    The unique psychological experiences of LGBTQI+ individuals, including identity exploration, coming out, discrimination, minority stress, and relationship dynamics.

  • Trauma

    The lasting psychological impact of deeply distressing events, such as violence, abuse, accidents, or disasters, that overwhelm a person's ability to cope.

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Professional Title:

  • Psychoanalyst

    A therapist trained in psychoanalysis, an in-depth approach that explores unconscious patterns, early experiences, and inner conflicts.

Credentials

Registrations

Círculo Brasileiro de Psicanálise

Psychoanalyst

Grupo Brasileiro de Pesquisas Sandor Ferenczi

Member

Qualifications

Circulo Brasileiro de Psicanálise - CBP-RJ

Service Areas

Ipanema

In-person & Online

Ipanema

Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

Brazil

Ipanema, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil