“I understand what happens to me, but nothing changes.”
You don't need to arrive knowing how to explain everything you feel.
People often believe they must find the right words before starting therapy.
But a first conversation is not a test. It can begin exactly where you are.
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Experiências humanas
Maybe you are going through something like this...
I don't want to talk about diagnoses. I want to talk about human experience.
“I'm always taking care of everyone else.”
“I no longer know what I'm feeling.”
“It feels like I keep living the same relationships over and over.”
“I'm tired of pretending everything is fine.”
“Therapy doesn't begin when you find all the answers. It begins when you find a place where you no longer have to face them alone.”
O que você pode esperar
What you can expect from me
Clinical work made with calm, curiosity and presence.
Presence before answers
The goal is not to offer ready-made solutions, but to build understanding together. Each session is a space where you are heard with genuine attention.
Curiosity before judgement
Every story deserves to be understood in its singularity. There is no right or wrong here — only what you live and what you feel.
Safety before vulnerability
No one has to talk about everything right away. You set the pace. Trust is built little by little, and that is perfectly natural.
Change through experience
Understanding matters, but living new emotional experiences is part of change too. Therapy is a living process, not only an intellectual one.
About
About Jacques C. Motta
I believe psychotherapy is, above all, an encounter. A place where you can stop being strong for a moment and simply be who you are.
My work is to build, together with you, a space of genuine understanding — not to hand you answers, but so you can find your own, in your time and at your pace.
Everyone who comes to the office carries a unique story. And it is in that singularity that the possibility of transformation lives.
- Clinical PsychologistLicensed in Brazil
- AEDP trainingAccelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
- Postgraduate studies in PsychopathologyContinuous training
- CRP 05/76150
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When you feel it is the right moment
I'll be here to receive your story.
No rush. No obligation. Just the possibility of an encounter, when you are ready.
- psijacquescm@gmail.com
- Atendimento
- In person (Copacabana - Rio de Janeiro) and online
Primeiros passos
Before the first session
A few questions that usually come up — answered with the same calm you will find in the office.