Isabel Valli

Training and experience

I hold a degree in Psychology from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), with more than ten years of practice, begun in Brazil, where I developed my clinical work with adults, parents, and children. My training is shaped by D. W. Winnicott's theory of emotional development, an author I studied in depth during my postgraduate studies at the Brazilian Institute of Winnicottian Psychoanalysis in São Paulo (IBPW-SP).

To me, Winnicott has a rare quality: he speaks about profound aspects of human development using language that any parent can recognize in their own experience. That bridge between theory and life is what I value bringing into my work.

I am co-author of the book "O brincar heurístico" ("Heuristic Play"), the result of research carried out together at an early-childhood school where I worked as an educator, focused on paying close attention to children's play and how it reveals a child's thinking and development.

Bachelor's degree in Psychology recognized by the Ministère de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement supérieur.

"The human being is a sample-in-time of human nature. The whole person is physical if seen from one angle, or psychological, if seen from another."