About
I have earned two undergraduate degrees, one in business at FGV-EAESP, and the other in psychology at PUC-SP. In the past, I have worked with finance and strategy for companies as Roland Berger and Walmart. Details of my professional background can be found here.
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Nowadays, I dedicate myself to admissions consulting, career interventions, and my clinical practice in psychoanalysis.
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This path was not an obvious one.
A little more about me
Below, allow me to share what I have learned about the intersections between the various fields that I have pursued.
As a businessman, I discovered that structured thinking is crucial when the situation is complex, involving an enormous amount of information, and people have little time for deep conversations.
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However,
"structure" is not the same as "formula",
and in the professional world the situation is always complex.
We must make time and create settings for deep conversations. We must use a structure for them that supports thinking and planning, but does not hinder reflection.
This is what I offer for those who come to me: a useful and structured setting that also fosters creativity.
For many years, literature has been one of my strongest passions.
I have taken creative writing classes, studied several books about composition, and read more than a hundred novels.
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This experience has made me able to discern when and why a piece is convincing, which comes in very useful in my work with admissions.
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However, and more importantly, literature introduced me to a more critical and profound analysis of the human being and their emotional experience.
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I have always enjoyed reading bildungsroman (novels that describe the personal development of their protagonists and how they grow throughout their lives).
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Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, and This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, are among my favorites.
These books bring to the surface what we all have felt or known: growing up is always challenging.
Freud basically said the same, describing in detail the delicate and turbulent process through which we all go through in order to become adults. Choices regarding the professional life are part of that.
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Most people have heard of Freud’s explanations of human behavior. Most psychoanalysts would agree that, beyond explaining, Freud tried to make people responsible for their emotional situations, so that, if willing to, they could change. They could move to a different position.
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Psychoanalysis is not a method for career interventions, but comes in handy when reading between the lines and understanding behaviors with an original view.
I am interested in offering people the possibility of change, no matter if I am working with admissions, careers or in the classic clinical setting.
In fact, working with admissions and careers can also be done with a clinical approach.
One of the reference books on professional interventions is called Vocational Orientation: The Clinical Strategy, by Bohoslavsky.
From literature, to admissions consulting, to career interventions and psychoanalysis, my professional activities are all intertwined. This is not a coincidence.
I am attracted to all things human.
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