Wanderley Santos

I am an intercultural psychodynamic psychotherapist and supervisor working with adults.

I work with:
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Loss, grief and bereavement
• Self-harm
• Suicidal ideation
• Suffering from an abusive relationship
• Gender dysphoria
• Sexuality and sexual identity
• Male issues
• Mood swings
• Difficulties in making and keeping relationships
• Low self-confidence and self-sabotage
• Experiencing discrimination by race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, culture, nationality, disability, religion, age and other categories
• Anger management
• Lack of direction or purpose
• Coming to terms with illness
• Trauma

I have more than fifteen years of experience working in the mental health sector. In 2006, I graduated in Psychology and did a master's in Clinical Psychology based on philosophy and schizoanalysis in my home country, Brazil. After being in the UK for a couple of years, I went on a journey to be requalified. So, I did another master’s in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and qualification in Intercultural Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, both at Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

Currently, I work as a counsellor at the Student Welfare and Support Service at the University of Oxford, am a visiting lecturer at Goldsmith, University of London, am a psychotherapist facilitator for a workshop concerning race and mental health at the Blam-UK and a facilitator of the In-space, a supportive collective thinking space for students at the Dutch Institut of Art - DAI, ArtEZ University of the Arts.