Psychological support for depression, anxiety, personality disorders, impulsivity, phobias, infertility, sexual dysfunction, loss and grief, sleep disorders, obsessions and compulsions, psychosomatics, obesity, stress, smoking, trauma.

Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, specializing in Clinical and Health Psychology

Bachelor’s Degree in Biology, Scientific Research area

Postgraduate degree in Hypnosis and Altered States of Consciousness

Mindfulness Training for Stress Reduction and Emotional Development MBSR

Aerobic exercise improves central blood pressure and blood pressure variability among patients with resistant hypertension: results of the EnRicH trial. Hypertens Res 2023 Feb 22. doi: 10.1038/s41440-023-01229-7.

Effect of Exercise Training on Ambulatory Blood Pressure Among Patients With Resistant Hypertension: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Cardiol. 2021 Nov 1;6(11):1317-1323. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2021.2735. 303.

Prognostic significance of ambulatory arterial stiffness index in hypertensives followed for 8.2 years: its relation with new events and cardiovascular risk estimation. Rev Port Cardiol. 2010 Sep;29(9):1287- High salt intake is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular events: a 7.2-year evaluation of a cohort of hypertensive patients. Blood Pressure Monitor. 2016 Oct;21(5):301-6.doi: 10.1097/MBP.0000000000000205.

Portuguese Order of Psychologists, No. 8278

EuroPsy Certificate in Psychology, approved by EFPA on July 10 2011

May 2009: Bial Prize (13th edition), Honorable Mention , awarded to the research work of which I am co-author: “Diagnostic value and cost/benefit analysis of 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in Primary Health Care at the S. João Health Center – Porto”. 

May 2009: The poster titled “Prognostic Accuracy of Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Treated Hypertensive Subjects. A 8.2 Years of Follow-Up ” was selected with special recognition at the Annual Scientific Meeting 2009 – American Society of Hypertension . 

April 2009: Best poster award at the IV Luso-Brazilian Forum of Consultative/Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics (Ipanema Park Hotel – Porto). Presentation of the poster entitled “ Relationship between Blood Pressure in the Office and Optimism, Stress, Anxiety and Depression in Normal Blood Pressure, Hypertensive and White Coat Hypertensive Subjects ”.