Dr. Andreia Santo, HCPC

Dr. Andreia Santo is a chartered and registered clinical and counselling psychologist practitioner with broad experience across child, adolescent and family mental health. She trained in Portugal, earning a Licenciatura in Psychology of Education and Rehabilitation in 2008 at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of Algarve University in Faro, a qualification academically comparable to a UK clinical psychology doctorate. Early in her career she completed a full-time placement at Projecto Integrado de Intervenção Precoçe in Coimbra, delivering psychological assessments and interventions for children and their parents or carers and contributing to initiatives that promoted social inclusion and emotional health awareness.

Her professional placements also included work within the National Health System at the Health Centre of Faro and a council service at Junta de Freguesia da Se. She completed an accredited year of postgraduate training in Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy recognized by the Portuguese Association of Behavioural Therapy and the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies. After relocating to the United Kingdom in 2010, she undertook a two-year part-time postgraduate diploma in Family and Systemic Theory at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and has since worked in various Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) within the NHS until June 2024.

Dr. Santo holds HCPC registration - registration with the Health and Care Professions Council which authorizes practice in the UK - and now focuses on an independent research project exploring Unconditional Love Science while seeing clients remotely, including private work and remote practice for Better Help. Her clinical interests span stress, anxiety, addictions, relationships, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, grief, parenting, neurodiversity and many related areas. She values a philosophy of unconditional self-love and supports clients to reconnect with a sense of innate worth and wellbeing. This service is not for emergencies; she typically does not respond on her regular break days, usually Sunday and Monday, and appointment times are generally aligned with the available slots on her calendar. Enquiries are welcome and she looks forward to meeting prospective clients.