Diana Pereira da Silva
Counselling Psychologist
What I can help with
- Acute Health Conditions
- Addiction
- Adjustment Disorder
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Grief and Bereavement
- Bipolar
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Health Anxiety
- Long term health conditions
- Medically Unexplained Symptoms
- Neurodiversity
- Panic
- Parenting
- Perfectionism
- Personality disorders
- Professional Burnout
- Relationships
- Self-esteem
- Sleep
- Social Anxiety
- Stress
- Trauma/PTSD
- Women's Health
Therapies offered
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- Mindfulness Stress Reduction
- Narrative Therapy
- Person Centred Therapy
- Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Therapy
Approach
Diana Pereira da Silva is accustomed to working with people from different backgrounds and nationalities. She draws upon several clinical approaches, including client-centred therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), existential therapy, mindfulness therapy, and solution-focused therapy. She is fluent in English and Portuguese.
Experience
Diana Pereira da Silva is an experienced Practitioner Psychologist who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychological Sciences and a Master’s degree in Clinical and Health Psychology. She is fully registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) in the modalities of Health Psychologist and Counselling Psychologist, and she has obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Neuropsychological Assessment and Rehabilitation. Ms. Pereira da Silva has extensive experience providing professional services in clinical assessments and therapy for adults who suffer from a wide range of conditions, including depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and disturbed sleep. In addition, she has expertise in the areas of cancer, caregiver issues and stress, chronic pain illness and disability, comorbidity, life purpose, hospice and end-of-life counselling, immigration issues, and multicultural concerns. She has worked as a Counselling Psychologist with cancer patients and their relatives or caregivers in a charitable organisation, with patients with dementia in a nursing home and as a volunteer at Macmillan Horizon Centre in Brighton.