Vanda Cabaço Silva | Clinical Psychologist | Sessions in Lisbon and Cascais Coastline

Psychotherapy is a journey of self-discovery that helps you explore your thoughts and emotions in a deep and meaningful way. It offers a safe space to reflect on life, strengthen relationships, and cultivate greater emotional well-being.

Vanda Cabaço Silva, psicóloga, sorridente em ambiente interior com plantas.

How can I help?

In-person and online sessions
In Portuguese, Spanish and English
Psychotherapy
A process that explores the roots of symptoms and helps you understand inner dynamics, such as recurring behaviors and deep rooted beliefs, which may trigger difficult emotions. By acknowledging and making sense of these emotions, you can learn to deal with them in a healthier and more constructive way.
Psychological support
Guidance during specific moments in life when it becomes hard to cope with certain emotions. Psychological support can be vital to help you understand and manage these emotions and challenges in a more conscious and healthy way.
Psychological support in infertility
Clinical assessment and ongoing support for people who want to conceive, before, and during the fertilization process. Infertility is a deeply emotional issue that can trigger intense feelings, and psychological support can be essential to help manage expectations, uncertainties, and emotional barriers.
Psychological assessments
Psychological assessments for children, adolescents, and adults, to understand their needs and provide tailored, effective interventions. Using rigorous methods and assessment tools, patterns of behaviour, emotions, and challenges are identified, and intervention plans are developed to best support each individual.

About me

I’m Vanda, a Clinical Psychologist and a full member of the Portuguese Psychologists’ Association (OPP).
Since an early age, I have been fascinated by the complexity of the human mind and motivated to understand how our experiences shape who we are.
Psicóloga Vanda Cabaço Silva em consulta online, com portátil e caderno de notas.
Psychotherapy offers a profound understanding of the behaviors, emotions, and thoughts that guide us, often unconsciously. I believe in the power of self-awareness and in the importance of creating a safe space where people can explore their vulnerabilities.
My approach is centered on the uniqueness of each person, combining attentive listening with an understanding of the therapeutic relationship as a fundamental part of the process of change. My goal is to support those who wish to better understand themselves, overcome emotional difficulties, and achieve a greater sense of well-being.
I am currently deepening my training in Relational Psychoanalysis at PsiRelacional — Association of Relational Psychoanalysis, where I am an associate member. This approach is based on the idea that the therapeutic relationship itself is a space for change — not only through what is discussed, but also through how the relationship is experienced. This creates an opportunity to understand and transform longstanding relational patterns.
As Freud once said, “Healing does not come from forgetting, but from remembering without pain. It is a process.”
Helping my patients find answers and develop new ways of facing life’s challenges is one of my greatest passions.
My experience

Psychological assessments for children, adolescents, and adults

Psychological intervention in addictions

Psychological support in hospital settings

Support in infertility and preparation for in vitro fertilization (IVF)

Ongoing psychological counseling in private practice

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Psicóloga Vanda Cabaço Silva a escrever notas em caderno durante consulta ou sessão de acompanhamento.

Partnerships

I collaborate with Maria Crescente, an NGO that promotes women’s personal development, offering psychological support and training to women who are survivors of domestic violence, immigrants, and incarcerated women referred by partner institutions.
Through my partnership with St. Peter’s International School, I conduct psychological assessments and provide psychotherapy to students, identifying difficulties and strengths that support emotional well-being and academic performance.

Benefits of Psychotherapy

As the saying goes, “no effort, no reward.” Psychotherapy can be a challenging and, at times, profound journey, but it is always a shared process supported by professional care. Although inner work can be demanding, it creates the possibility for transformation, fostering  personal  growth and lasting well-being.

Self-knowledge

Resilience

Emotional balance

Personal growth

Emotional awareness

Self-esteem

Freedom

Self-confidence

Mental health

Where I practice

The Clinic of Change
Lisboa
Dreamers Space
Carcavelos

“The greatest challenge in life is discovering who we truly are. The second is finding happiness in what we discover.”

Natthalia Paccola