Therapy in English for expats in Portugal

Living abroad asks something extra of us. A new language, new codes, distance from the people who knew us first — and often the difficulty of finding a psychologist who can hold all of that in fluent English.

Espaço Âncora is a Porto-based practice working online with English-speaking clients anywhere in Portugal. Both psychologists work in English: Marta Vilela Guimarães (OPP nº 5257), who holds C2 English (Cambridge) and twenty-four years of practice, and Sofia Montenegro (OPP nº 3579), who also works in Spanish and with younger clients. What you get is the same standard offered to Portuguese clients — relational psychoanalytic depth, paired with mindfulness where it helps — in your own language.

Common reasons clients come: anxiety, the loneliness of relocation, identity and belonging, couple difficulties, burnout, ongoing depression. Sessions are 50 minutes, online via Google Meet, and the first one is there for us to get to know each other.