Tatiana Esperanco

Ms. Tatiana Esperanco is a Clinical Psychologist currently working at Medcare Camali Clinic in Jumeirah. She is a post graduate in Systemic and Family Psychotherapist and she has completed her Master's in Clinical Psychology from Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida (ISPA), Lisbon, Portugal. 

Ms. Esperanco’s clinical journey began with a formative internship at Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca in Lisbon, where she was actively involved with child and adolescent psychiatry. Here, she helped young individuals coping with anxiety, grief, self-harm, suicidal ideation, and other mental health concerns. After this, she joined Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Sintra, providing psychological assessments and therapy for children, adolescents, and adults. She also worked with elderly loneliness and supporting homeless individuals in redefining their life goals toward autonomy and rehabilitation. She worked with schools, courts, child-protection services, and community organizations, and has participated in intervention projects, mental health literacy initiatives, scientific research, and congress presentations.

Ms. Esperanco believes in giving psychological care using an integrative, client-centred approach and has extensive experience supporting individuals across various psychological challenges. Her therapeutic approach integrates cognitive-behavioural, psychodynamic, and systemic methodologies. Her expertise includes psychological consultations to adolescents and adults, addressing anxiety, depression, mood disorders, ADHD, grief, suicide, trauma, personality disorders, and developmental assessments, while also supporting families and couples through systemic psychotherapy frameworks. She performs psychological assessments, learning difficulties screening and parental counselling.

She keeps herself updated with the latest techniques in her field, actively participates in scientific research and presents at international mental health conferences. During her spare time, she enjoys reading. She speaks English and Portuguese.