Mafalda Cardim:
Trainee Psychodynamic Psychotherapist (BACP student member)
My name is Mafalda Cardim. I am a trainee psychodynamic psychotherapist providing once-weekly therapy in the low-cost service of the HQ Therapy Rooms in Haggerston.
I am very interested in helping those who are experiencing a difficult time, whether they know what is wrong or not.
Maybe those difficulties are related to life transitions that demand changes that are hard to cope with.
Problems related to career, moving, migration, parenting and empty nesting, break-up, marriage and divorce, bereavement, loss, and trauma, may lead to feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, anxiety, and anger.
Sometimes those feelings are there even though it isn’t clear what caused them.
The therapy room is built to address these issues. It is the stuff of life.
Meeting once a week with me for psychodynamic psychotherapy, you will gain awareness of what feels tender and needs protection within you, what you find yourself repeating, and what is hidden within yourself.
You will gain insight, and with insight comes more room to move and to choose. You won’t be alone. I’ll be there on this journey with you, in partnership.
I provide a safe, confidential, and non-judgemental space where you can tell me what is going on in your life. Talking about it, and the space of listening that I can offer to you might help.
Together we can think about what has been difficult and how that might relate to moments in your past, to things you cannot forget, and to things you might not even remember. It’s a hard task, better approached with softness and time.
I am training at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation as a psychodynamic psychotherapist, working towards a Master’s degree.
I also have experience working at The Listening Place, a suicide listening service, and Mind, a charity that addresses mental health.
Before this, I earned a BSc from Nova Lisbon, and an MSc and a PhD, both from the London School of Economics.
My work is supervised, and I am a registered student member of the BACP. This means that I abide by a strict code of conduct and ethics.
As well as English, I can also offer therapy in Portuguese.