Consultant Psychiatrist
João Lourenço is a Licensed Psychologist, trained
in Portugal, with over 15 years of experience working with children,
adolescents, young adults, and families in Portugal and the United
Arab Emirates. He has held senior clinical and leadership roles,
including Co-Founder and Director of Child Services at The Free
Spirit Collective (FSC) and Head of Therapies for Children at Aspris
by AlKamal in Dubai.
João is committed to evidence-based, developmentally informed care.
He works mainly with neurodevelopmental disorders (including Autism
Spectrum Disorder and ADHD), anxiety and trauma-related disorders,
attachment and parent–child relationship difficulties, and
behavioural and emotional regulation challenges. His clinical work
draws on CBT, TF-CBT, ACT, DBT-informed interventions, MBT-CYP, the
Reflective Parenting model, and play-based methods, with
interventions tailored to each child’s developmental stage and
family context.
He works primarly with Neurodevelopmental disorders (ASD/ADHD),
generalised anxiety, social anxiety, panic attacks and panic
disorder, specific phobias, health anxiety, obsessive–compulsive
disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress and trauma-related
difficulties, depression and low mood, peer and family/relationship
difficulties, parent–infant and attachment difficulties, behavioural
and emotional regulation problems, school/exam/college stress, low
self-esteem and self-image difficulties, parenting difficulties,
emerging personality-related difficulties.
Services:
- Psychology/Psychotherapy
- Child therapy
- Play therapy
- Child and Adolescent therapy
- Play therapy
- Individual psychotherapy for adult
- Parental guidance
Age Group:
- Children (3+)
- Adolescents
- Adults and families
Languages:
- English
- Portuguese
