Therapy helps identify family patterns that make it difficult to agree on parenting, money, or other important matters.
Couples and family therapy · Online
Couples and families can fall ill, too, and need treatment.
With Marcelo Cunha, a Jungian psychologist. A space to understand conflicts, work through crises, and care for the bonds between you.
Explore the workA breath of fresh air for old relationships.
Couples and family therapy
Families can fall ill, too. And they need care.
Online psychotherapy with Marcelo Cunha, a licensed psychologist (CRP 04/48283 - Brazil), who holds a graduate-level certificate in Analytical Psychology and has specialized training in couples therapy. An approach to clinical listening that brings together each person’s history and the relationships within the family system.
When the same conversation always ends in the same argument, looking for someone to blame often repeats the problem. A couple or a family is a system: silences, alliances, roles, and attempts to protect one another take shape among everyone involved—often without anyone noticing.
Therapy attends to each person’s suffering while also looking at what happens between them. Bringing these patterns into view creates room for responses that have not yet been possible.
Couples therapy
Separate—or just endure?
There are more than two answers.
This work does not aim to preserve a relationship at any cost, or to decide its future for you. Its purpose is to understand the impasse and each person’s part in it.
Sometimes, this makes it possible to rebuild the bond. At other times, it helps partners work through a separation and care for the relationships that remain, especially when children are involved.
Systemic family therapy
The problem does not lie with just one person.
The systemic approach became established as a clinical field from the mid-twentieth century onward*. It shifted attention from the individual in isolation to the communication patterns, life cycles, and reciprocal influences that shape couples and families. Supported by a substantial body of scientific research, this established field provides a basis for effective interventions in a range of family situations:
Major changes can bring crises: the arrival of a child, bereavement, infertility, a career change, or illness.
Years of living together do not guarantee mutual understanding or emotional connection. Intimacy can fade in the routines of daily life, but it can also be rediscovered and transformed through therapy.
Patterns of emotion and behavior passed down across generations can keep families caught in repetition.
Getting started
You can take the first step.
You do not need to arrive with all the answers. An initial inquiry helps open the conversation.
What is the initial consultation for?
The first session allows us to understand what brings the couple or family to therapy and discuss a treatment plan. It is also an opportunity to ask questions and get to know how I work.
Who can make the initial inquiry?
Any member of the family. After a brief call, the partner or other family members will be contacted to discuss their willingness to participate and answer their questions.
Does everyone need to agree before I reach out?
You can get in touch on your own. During this initial contact, we will explore whether the others are open to participating, without assuming that everyone has already decided to take part.
Are sessions online?
Yes. Sessions take place online. Before the initial consultation, participants receive clear instructions to help them take part, along with full support in connecting to the first session. Couples and families often say they were surprised by the benefits of online sessions. If this format does not work for you, I will try to recommend an in-person professional.
First contact
Tell me briefly who is seeking therapy.
Sharing a few details will help me understand your reasons for seeking therapy before I respond. All inquiries are received directly in strict professional confidence.