Whether looking for help at a difficult time in your life or trying to get to know yourself better,
You have come to the right place.
Psychotherapy is a form of professional help you should reach for when feeling overwhelmed. At some point, you may not be able to cope with your problems on your own anymore. During the psychotherapy sessions, we will analyse your difficulties together in order to understand what causes them and how you can change it.
Psychotherapy is also a practice of getting to know yourself more deeply. Together with a psychotherapist, you will discover unknown aspects of your personality, which will bring you closer to experiencing life more fully and consciously.
Can psychotherapy help me?
The first session with a psychotherapist is intended to help you determine whether psychotherapy is the right solution for you and how you could benefit from it.
First of all, psychotherapy can help you identify and better understand the source of your difficulties. You will gain new ways of looking at your problems and usually this is the first step towards the change.
Psychotherapy can help you if you are ready to be helped.
What kind of problems can psychotherapy help me with?
Eating disorders
How much does therapy cost?
“Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference”
- Virginia Satir -
About me
My name is Sylwia Latacz. I am a Psychotherapist and I have MD in Psychology. I come from Poland and I have been living in Portugal for a past 8 years. I provide individual sessions for adults and couples psychotherapy.
I support people in overcoming difficulties, finding a sense of authenticity and solutions in seemingly hopeless situations. I work primarily with expats who are looking for support from someone who knows the specifics of the experience of living abroad.
For me, psychotherapy is not only a method of coping with difficulties, but above all it is a method of experiencing one's life more deeply. Psychotherapy can be a path to deeper acceptance of oneself and others. I invite you to take this journey together.
How does psychotherapy works?
Psychotherapy is a method aimed at enabling people to fully experience themselves the way they are. What exactly does it mean in the psychotherapeutic sense?
1. Experiencing emotions.
Being able to experience what you feel is the opposite of repressing or trying to control your emotions. Very often we don’t even realise that we have been avoiding certain feelings for our whole lives. Those stuck and blocked feelings tend to show up when we least expect them, in unpleasant form of bodily pains, nightmares, outbursts of aggression, crying or in sort of an “emotional numbness”. In psychotherapy we want to embrace emotions without repressing them or "acting out". Being able to live your life without blocking what you feel is a truly transformative experience.
2. Being your authentic self.
Being able to be yourself without shame or fear is the opposite of ”'putting on masks”. Very often we grow up with the belief that we must “fit” and that if we are simply ourselves, the world will reject us. This belief makes us hide our true self, put on masks, feel ashamed of who we are and try to be someone else. This may lead to low self-esteem, fear of failure, exhausting self-criticism as well as anxiety, depression, addictions. Psychotherapy is a space where you can truly experience what it means to accept yourself and how it affects you and your relationships.
3. Establishing relationships based on trust and acceptance.
Being able to trust and show your true self to another person, including a therapist, is a challenge for many of us. The fear of intimacy is often unconscious. Past hurt and fear of rejection for who we are pushes us away from others as well as from ourselves. This can lead to the fake feeling of independence, while actually suffering from loneliness. Being able to establish relationships based on trust and acceptance is one of the most important psychotherapeutic goals.
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