José is a Counsellor and Psychotherapist holding an MSc in Counselling and several qualifications in Addiction Counselling. He has been working in the field of addiction and associated disorders since 2003 gaining extensive experience working with compulsive behaviours, mental health and substance addictions.
Over the years José has worked primarily in leading residential treatment facilities as a Counsellor, Senior Counsellor, Head Therapist and Clinical Manager overseeing teams of multidisciplinary clinicians. He has worked individually with clients over extended periods of time affording the opportunity for long term and sustainable recovery and change.
As an integrative therapist with long experience working in the addiction and compulsive behaviours’ field, José provides a range of different models and concepts of therapy, such as CBT, CAT, MI, Relapse Prevention, Psychodynamic, Systemic and Gestalt. He facilitates psycho-educational workshops and interpersonal psychotherapy groups as well as individual therapy, supervision, training, and clinical management.
José is fluent in English, Portuguese, French, and Spanish. He is also involved in Communitarian work, Politics and Sports