When conventional care wasn't enough.

An unhurried clinical space for emotional, relationship, and sexual challenges of contemporary life. Online care anywhere in the world.

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How Do Sessions Work?

We structure our sessions so that the patient feels comfortable, safe, and welcome, regardless of physical distance. We offer flexible options to match your lifestyle.

Initial Connection

Before anything else, you are heard.

Therapy doesn't start in the first session, it starts when someone asks "what brought you here?" and waits calmly for your answer.

Step 1

You tell your story

A brief and confidential space (email or WhatsApp) to share what brought you here, without a script, at your own pace.

Step 2

We find the right fit

Your story helps to understand not only your needs, but what kind of approach and therapeutic presence suit you best.

Step 3

Getting to know each other, from both sides

In the first consultation, you also ask, talk, feel the experience and the therapist's style. Connection is only real when both sides recognize each other.

A safe and non-judgmental space for your transformation.
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Atendimento Online
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Online Care

Conveniência & Sigilo Global

Online care with empathy, ethics, and confidentiality. Sessions take place via video conference, allowing access to psychological support regardless of your location.

Atendimento Presencial - Rio de Janeiro, RJ
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In-Person Care

Consultório em Rio de Janeiro, RJ

In-person care available in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. Choosing the in-person setting is welcome and considered part of the care process.

Confidentiality and Privacy
Flexible Time Zones
Judgment-Free Welcoming Space
Where science meets care

Areas of Focus

Sex Therapy & Relationships

Talking about sex is still hard for most people and that's okay. Desire, intimacy, communication, and identity are topics carrying history, expectations, and silence. This is a confidential space without embarrassment or judgment.

Couple Desire & Communication
Sexual Dysfunctions & Insecurity
Confidential & Welcoming Environment

Brazilians & Expats Worldwide

Immigrating is more than changing locations. It means rebuilding routines, relationships, and identity. The feeling of living between worlds has a name and requires care. Clinical listening that understands this journey.

Adult ADHD

More common and more invisible than you think: prevalence is estimated at 5.2% between 18 and 44 years old and 6.1% above 44. In adulthood, it rarely appears as hyperactivity. Anxiety and depression frequently mask the condition, delaying diagnosis, and understanding what is happening changes everything.

Anxiety & Overwhelm

Constant worry, burnout, and panic attacks have roots worth understanding. A therapeutic process from initial listening to continuous care.

Focus AreasWhat we treat and how

Our Treatments

Individualized therapeutic plan: built from who you are, your thought patterns, behavior, and relationships. The goal is to expand your understanding of yourself and create space for more satisfying ways of being in the world.

Personalized Care

Individual Therapy

A personalized therapeutic process that helps understand emotional, relational, and behavioral difficulties, favoring consistent changes, personal development, and mental health.

100% focus on your demands
Profound self-knowledge
Tailor-made strategies for daily life
Clinical SettingOnline & In-Person
Intimacy & Dialogue Mediation

Couples Therapy

A therapeutic process that helps couples understand relationship patterns, improve communication, and build more satisfying forms of connection, intimacy, and partnership.

Rescue interpersonal communication
Alignment of expectations and agreements
Strengthening sexual health
Clinical SettingOnline & In-Person
Relationships & Cooperation

Family Therapy

A therapeutic process focused on understanding family relationships, promoting greater dialogue, cooperation, and development of resources to deal with life challenges healthier.

Resolution of intergenerational conflicts
Safe environment for expression
Strengthening mutual support
Clinical SettingOnline & In-Person
Exchange & Belonging

Group Therapy

A therapeutic process conducted in a group, where participants can share experiences, broaden perspectives, and develop emotional resources in a safe and welcoming environment.

Rich exchange of experiences
Profound sense of belonging
Development of relational intelligence
Clinical SettingOnline & In-Person
Medium and Long-Term Structured Care

Continuous Connection

There comes a point when the therapeutic process matures to where it no longer requires the same frequency as before, and that is precisely where most mental health care ends. Here, we understand this moment differently.

Throughout the final stretch of your process, the spacing between sessions ceases to be a detachment and becomes a safe testing ground: a space for you to put into practice everything that was built, with the certainty that someone is still closely accompanying you. You do not leave here with a revised diagnosis and a "good luck". You leave with your own repertoire, tailored specifically to your history, and with a genuine understanding of how to use it.

But what makes this care truly different is what comes next. Mental health care built so that the bond between patient and clinic lasts beyond the last session. Now, you have this type of care at your disposal. You become part of our special group of people that we continue to accompany closely, with the door always open, without bureaucracy, without exhausting re-evaluations, without the feeling of "starting from scratch" should life ask for support again, whether a month from now or in a few years.

It is not about never needing therapy again. It is about never having to search, alone, for someone who already knows you.

Luciana Machado - Diretora Clínica e Fundadora
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About: Luciana Machado

Who designed it

Luciana Machado is a psychologist (CRP 05/78041), graduated from UNESA, with over 20 years of experience in healthcare, a path that began in Dentistry at the University of São Paulo (FOUSP) and was consolidated in Psychology.

She specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Human Sexuality, with additional training in couples therapy, functional analytic psychotherapy, and emotional first aid, among others, constantly updating at reference centers in Brazil and abroad.

Founder of Alphaterapia.online, she integrates scientific rigor, clinical experience, and person-centered listening, supported by a background that crossed more than one healthcare area before consolidating in psychology.

Science & Efficacy

The Science Behind Psychotherapy

The efficacy of psychotherapy is one of the most documented areas in contemporary mental health. A meta-analysis published in 2024 in World Psychiatry — one of the highest-impact psychiatry journals in the world — analyzed the results of different psychotherapeutic approaches for eight mental disorders and confirmed consistent benefits compared to control groups.

Another meta-analysis published in The Lancet Psychiatry in 2024, involving 177 studies and 2,908 patients from 24 countries, showed that therapy outcomes go beyond symptom reduction — including greater self-understanding, autonomy, and social engagement.

Psychotherapy is not generic emotional support. It is a clinical intervention with solid and current scientific evidence.

Sources: CUIJPERS, P. et al. (2024). Absolute and relative outcomes of psychotherapies for eight mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis. World Psychiatry. / THE LANCET PSYCHIATRY (2024). Client-identified outcomes of individual psychotherapy: a qualitative meta-analysis.

A space reserved for you at a time that works, at a pace that makes sense.

Choose the most convenient contact channel to check available times, clarify initial doubts, and schedule your appointment.

Flexible hours (Morning, Afternoon, Evening)
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Desenvolvimento ProfissionalAprimoramento técnico & mentoria clínica

Supervisão para Psicólogos

Um espaço dedicado a psicólogos que desejam aprofundar seu raciocínio clínico, desenvolver confiança, aprimorar suas habilidades de intervenção e desenvolver uma atuação consistente de acordo com as demandas da clínica contemporânea.

Mais do que a discussão de casos, o trabalho envolve o aprofundamento da compreensão clínica com feedback e mentoria para o fortalecimento da tomada de decisão profissional e o desenvolvimento de recursos técnicos e relacionais.

Ambiente de supervisão clínica

O processo é voltado para profissionais que valorizam o aprendizado contínuo, a reflexão crítica e o aprimoramento permanente de sua atuação.

Raciocínio Clínico

Aprofundamento de diagnóstico e formulação de casos.

Feedback & Mentoria

Orientação prática para tomada de decisão profissional.

Atuação Consistente

Segurança ética e técnica para a clínica contemporânea.

Mentoria & Supervisão Clínica

Sessões individuais ou em pequenos grupos de estudo de casos clínicos.

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Reflections / NewsletterReadings to feed your journey

Reflections

Texts written with the same attention reserved for sessions: because those who care for themselves also transform their way of being in the world.

ADHD in Adults: Understand the Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options
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Sep 15, 2026
AlphaterapiaBy Alphaterapia

ADHD in Adults: Understand the Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options

When talking about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), many people only picture restless children at school. However, ADHD also accompanies millions of adults, often without them knowing they have the disorder. It is common for the diagnosis to happen only in adulthood, after years of difficulties maintaining organization, meeting deadlines, controlling impulses, or staying focused […]

Why Can’t You Stop? The Science Behind Dopamine Addiction
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Sep 15, 2026
AlphaterapiaBy Alphaterapia

Why Can’t You Stop? The Science Behind Dopamine Addiction

If you have ever asked yourself “why I simply can’t stop” gambling, shopping, scrolling the feed, or repeating the same pattern, the answer is not in your willpower. It is in your brain. Have you ever tried to stop using your phone, control online shopping, or decrease the time on sites and apps that give […]

Anxiety, Depression, and Sex Life: Is There a Connection?
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Sep 15, 2026
AlphaterapiaBy Alphaterapia

Anxiety, Depression, and Sex Life: Is There a Connection?

When the topic is anxiety, depression, and sex life, it is common for a person to come to therapy talking only about the sexual complaint — “I don’t feel desire anymore,” “I can’t relax during sex,” “I lost interest” — without mentioning that, in the same period, their sleep worsened, their mind doesn’t switch off […]

Clinical ClarificationsClear your doubts before starting

Frequently Asked Questions

Direct answers to the main doubts about the therapeutic process.

Online care offers convenience and flexibility, allowing you to have your sessions wherever you are. Meetings take place via video call, with privacy, confidentiality, and the same attention dedicated to in-person care.

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When it's not the time yet, but you already know what you want.

If you already recognize that something needs care, but the timing hasn't fit yet, leave your contact. When it makes sense to you, we will be here.

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