A diagnosis is the
beginning of a conversation,
not its end.
I offer longitudinal care for neurodiverse families and for people living with severe mental illness, always with the whole family in mind. Care happens in person in Uberlândia and by video call, for all of Brazil and the world.
CRM-MG 74.511 (Brazilian medical license) · RQE 69038 (specialist registration)
Values
The focus is not only the “identified patient” but the whole family system. This is care built on lasting bonds, care that walks with people over time.
I care for people with severe, persistent conditions through the lens of recovery and citizenship. Autonomy means being able to steer one’s own life with dignity, because no person is reducible to a diagnosis.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ADHD, and other neurodivergent profiles are variations in human development. Assessment is careful, language is respectful, and the plan has to make sense in real life.
Every decision is anchored in evidence and communicated clearly, without jargon and without guesswork.
Who this care is for
The doctor who walks alongside you
I am a family and community physician, in practice since 2017, and since medical school I have devoted my training and my work to mental health. Over nearly a decade I have cared for people in psychological distress in person and online, individually and in groups, including six years in a community mental health clinic.
Translating science is also a form of care
Bringing trustworthy information about mental health and family life to those who need it, in the press, on TV, and on podcasts, is part of what it means to care.
Science that becomes care
Caring well for someone begins with caring for those who care. My research on the mental health and quality of life of physicians and medical students grows out of this same commitment to connection, dignity, respect, and clarity.
Thread of Care
Words for those who care
This is where the reading begins. Subscribe, it is free, and every two weeks a letter arrives with a story from the consulting room and what the science has to say about it.
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No one falls ill alone
I have learned, in the exam room and beyond it, that a person’s health is almost always the health of the systems they live in. I carry this conviction into the institutions where healthcare is organized at scale.
What I hear in the consulting room does not fit inside it. I carry the ESG agenda, environmental, social and governance, into medical education, into the boards I sit on and into mental health policy, because Ubuntu says what the clinic confirms every day, that no one falls ill alone and no one heals alone. When a medical school changes the way it looks after its students, or a board decides where the money goes, the effect reaches people I will never see in person.
Social impact consultant, focused on strategy and outcome measurement in medical education and mental health
Board member and founding member, dedicated to governance and social impact in Uberlândia
Training in citizenship-oriented mental health care, with care understood as recovery and belonging
Care that sees the whole person.
If your family is looking for a doctor who stays with you over time and looks at the whole picture, let’s talk. Care happens in person in Uberlândia and by video call, for all of Brazil and the world.
