Curious about what it’s like to work with me? I offer a compassionate, non-judgmental space where we collaboratively tailor therapy to fit your unique needs and preferences.
I am a licensed mental health counselor with expertise in holistic therapy and integrative mental health practices. I hold a master’s degree in Holistic Counseling Psychology from Lesley University in Massachusetts and certifications in trauma-informed care and integrative medicine. Licensed in Massachusetts and Florida, I see clients remotely on secure telehealth platforms. My approach emphasizes the mind-body-spirit connection for overall well-being.
As a native Portuguese speaker, I offer culturally sensitive support to Portuguese-speaking immigrants, combining my language proficiency with a deep understanding of their cultural backgrounds. Passionate about transpersonal and existential therapy, I am dedicated to helping clients live authentic, meaningful lives. You can visit my website at selflovecure.org.
My communication style is non-judgmental and warm, fostering a safe space for open dialogue. I aim to be direct and clear in our conversations, yet incorporate humor to lighten the mood, making sessions more relatable. This friendly approach encourages trust and helps clients feel comfortable sharing their thoughts and feelings.
My holistic approach to goal setting involves personalized assessments that take into account emotional, physical, and spiritual needs. I encourage self-discovery and empowerment, helping you set meaningful goals aligned with your core values. Incorporating mindfulness and visualization, I promote resilience, flexibility, and regular check-ins for accountability, supporting your journey toward growth and healing.
During a first session, I create a warm, welcoming environment where you can safely express yourself. We start with an intake assessment to understand your background, emotional needs, and challenges. Through dialogue and self-reflection, we explore your goals and values. I may also introduce holistic practices to build trust and establish a foundation for collaborative healing.
My journey to becoming a therapist is deeply rooted in my connection to nature and holistic practices. With a master’s degree in Holistic Counseling Psychology and certifications in ARCH Life Coaching, Permaculture Design, and Nutritional and Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Professionals (CIMHP), I draw from multiple traditions that honor the mind-body-spirit connection.
A core part of my therapeutic framework is my certification in the ARCH Life Coaching program, developed by Heather Ensworth and Kristina Lea. Their model, explored in the powerful book From Trauma to Freedom, integrates trauma-informed care with a spiritual and archetypal approach to healing. ARCH stands for:
* Awareness
* Resilience
* Compassion
* Healing
Through this lens, I help clients not only process trauma cognitively and emotionally, but also reclaim a sense of spiritual wholeness. The method emphasizes self-compassion, mindfulness, and reconnection with the deeper Self. These tools have allowed me to create safe, nurturing spaces where transformation and liberation become possible — not just for clients, but within my own healing journey as well.
Another essential pillar of my practice is my certification as a Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional (CIMHP) through Dr. Leslie Korn’s program in Nutritional and Integrative Medicine. This comprehensive training has expanded my capacity to:
* Incorporate nutrition and lifestyle interventions into mental health care
* Understand the biochemical and somatic dimensions of trauma and emotional distress
* Empower clients with personalized, body-centered healing strategies
Through Dr. Korn’s mentorship, I’ve come to deeply appreciate the interconnectedness of physical, emotional, and mental well-being, and I now integrate these tools into treatment plans for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and chronic stress.
Beyond the therapy room, I am a certified Permaculture Designer, having received my training in 2016 with Kay Cafasso of Sowing Solutions Permaculture Design & Education. That experience profoundly shaped how I view land, healing, and human wholeness.
Through that program, I learned to apply observational wisdom from nature to design perennial gardens and food forests that nourish both people and ecosystems. The principles Kay teaches — from growing fruits, berries, vegetables, and medicinal plants, to improving soil health and creating resilient habitats — echo the inner work I do with clients: gentle, cyclical, regenerative.
While living in Massachusetts, I brought those principles to life by cultivating a community garden in my hometown — a living space of nourishment, education, and relational healing. There, I witnessed how tending to the land becomes a metaphor for tending to the soul. Just as we restore balance to degraded soil, we can restore emotional and spiritual balance in ourselves.
Permaculture is not simply sustainable agriculture — it is a holistic ecological design system for creating regenerative human habitats rooted in respect for all living systems. It teaches us that:
“What is good or bad for living systems is not a matter of opinion — it is observable, measurable, and deeply interconnected.”
In this way, permaculture mirrors my approach to mental health: rooted, integrative, intuitive, and deeply ethical. It invites us to live in right relationship — with our bodies, with each other, and with the Earth.
This is the spirit behind Back to the Garden of Eden — to create sacred spaces where both the soil and the soul are healed, together.
With a background in graphic design from MassArt, I previously owned an operation manufacturing environmentally safe cosmetics, advocating for sustainability and ethical practices. This experience reinforced my commitment to holistic and sustainable living.
My work is also inspired by a powerful intergenerational legacy of healers.
One of the greatest influences in my life was my great-grandfather, Dr. Gaston Pereira da Silva, a luminous figure in Brazilian psychology who introduced Freudian psychoanalytic concepts to Brazil. A multifaceted intellectual and prolific writer, medical doctor, and psychoanalyst. He authored over 50 books with the mission of democratizing psychoanalysis for everyday people. I had the privilege of knowing and caring for him until the end of his life, and his teachings continue to guide my work today — inspiring me to explore the depths of the psyche with both curiosity and compassion.
Drawing from a lineage of mental health pioneers, including my grandfather Max Nascimento, a hypnotherapist, and great-grandfather Dr. Gaston Pereira da Silva, my approach is deeply influenced by their teachings and focus on holistic well-being.
This sacred relationship between land stewardship and inner healing reflects what Carl Jung described as the archetypal feminine essence — intuitive, fertile, relational, cyclical, and deeply healing. The act of healing, whether in a garden or in a therapy room, calls us into this feminine principle: to hold space, to witness, to nurture, and to renew.
Whether through the healing power of storytelling, ancestral connection, trauma-informed somatic work, permaculture, or integrative nutrition, my approach centers on restoring balance, honoring complexity, and guiding others back to the symbolic Garden of the Self — where growth, truth, and transformation are possible.
I am also the founder and visionary behind Back to the Garden of Eden, a regenerative healing initiative currently in development, born from the deep desire to reconnect people with God, nature, and their original identity — a return to what truly heals.
Back to the Garden of Eden is more than a project — it is a movement for integral restoration, weaving together mental health, Christian spirituality, and earth-based regenerative practices. Through retreats, therapeutic education, permaculture design, and embodied experiences, we create sacred spaces where:
* The body can return to balance,
* The soul can find rest,
* And the spirit can rediscover purpose.
Our mission is to guide individuals and families from trauma, emotional exhaustion, and spiritual disconnection back to divine order — a life of harmony, belonging, and wholeness.
This vision is deeply informed by Carl Jung’s understanding of the sacred feminine — the archetype of receptivity, intuition, nurturance, and cyclical wisdom. In Jungian psychology, the feminine is not limited to gender; it represents an inner landscape, a symbolic garden within each of us.
In returning to the garden — physically and metaphorically — we return to the womb of creation, the source of inner harmony, where healing is not about fixing, but remembering who we are.
Back to the Garden of Eden is, in essence, a manifestation of this archetype: a space where women (and men) can slow down, listen inward, commune with creation, and reclaim their sacred essence. It is my heart’s work to midwife these spaces back into existence — in land, in community, and in the human spirit.
I would love to connect with Alejandra and Chepe Putzu, founders of the Legendaries movement of man how claim to the top of the mountain, and explore ways to collaborate in creating the women’s experience in the valley. Their mission resonates deeply with mine — and I believe we can co-create transformative environments where women rise, reconnect with God, and return to the garden within.
My clinical experience in Massachusetts community mental health clinics involves holistic therapy, including internal family systems, narrative therapy, and trauma-informed care. I focus on healing the mind, body, and soul through integrative medicine.
A transformative shift in my professional journey led me to fully embrace my intuitive gifts — integrating not only evidence-based trauma therapy and nutritional psychology, but also frequency healing and sacred technologies that restore coherence between body, mind, and spirit.
Through this evolution, my deepest goal has become clear: to guide clients toward radical self-acceptance and unconditional self-love — not just as therapeutic outcomes, but as a return to their original divine essence.
From a spiritual and energetic lens, everything is vibration. Science confirms what ancient traditions and sacred texts have always known: sound, light, and frequency shape reality. In the opening of the Gospel of John, we are reminded:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… Through Him all things were made.”
Creation itself began with vibration — the spoken Word — a divine frequency that animated the universe into being. Just as God spoke life into existence, our words, prayers, and intentions carry frequency that can shape, bless, or distort our inner and outer worlds.
When we speak truth, offer prayer, and align with love, we resonate with the original frequency of creation — and healing begins.
To help clients experience these principles somatically, I incorporate the use of the InHarmony Meditation Cushion — a technology that uses vibroacoustic therapy to deliver low-frequency sound directly into the body. These frequencies:
Activate the parasympathetic nervous system
Support emotional regulation and trauma release
Enhance meditation and prayer states
Restore energetic balance on a cellular level
Clients often describe feeling grounded, emotionally lighter, and spiritually aligned after sessions. When combined with intention, prayer, and therapeutic dialogue, the InHarmony cushion becomes a sacred tool — a modern Ark where the body remembers safety, the soul rests, and the Spirit moves.
Through all of these modalities — from trauma-informed care and nutritional medicine, to spiritual archetypes and frequency technology — I invite clients on a path back to Eden:
A return to wholeness
A reconnection with Source
A remembrance of their divine identity
This journey is not linear, but sacred. Each vibration, each word, each breath is a step toward healing — a return to harmony, to belonging, and to the truth that we were never truly separate from love.
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