AMANDA ALMEIDA DE SOUZA

As a psychoanalytic therapist, I have worked extensively with individuals facing a wide range of personal, emotional, and psychological challenges. My clinical practice involves listening carefully to each patient’s unique narrative, respecting their subjective experience, and understanding how unconscious processes shape their suffering, relationships, and ways of being in the world. Throughout my professional experience, I have supported LGBTQIA+ patients who struggle with issues such as family rejection, emotional distance, and difficulties in building or maintaining meaningful bonds. These experiences often leave deep emotional marks, including feelings of abandonment, guilt, or internal conflict, which require sensitive and ethical clinical handling. Psychoanalysis offers a valuable framework for exploring these dynamics, allowing patients to articulate their pain and gradually construct new meanings for their experiences. In addition to this, I work with patients diagnosed with eating disorders, where symptoms often reflect complex emotional conflicts, issues related to control, body image, and identity. I also provide therapeutic support to individuals on the autism spectrum, focusing on their subjective experience rather than solely on diagnostic criteria, respecting their singular way of perceiving and interacting with the world. Depression is another frequent concern in my clinical work. Many patients arrive feeling emotionally paralyzed, disconnected from desire, or overwhelmed by feelings of emptiness and hopelessness. Through the psychoanalytic process, these individuals are invited to speak freely, recognize recurring patterns, and gradually understand the origins of their psychic suffering. Overall, my work is guided by ethical responsibility, empathy, and a deep respect for each patient’s history. I believe psychotherapy is not about offering quick solutions, but about creating a safe and consistent space where transformation becomes possible through speech, reflection, and the therapeutic relationship itself.