English-speaking therapists in Porto Alegre

Therapy in English, in Porto Alegre

Online, on your schedule. For the community living here in English.

In Brazil's south, Porto Alegre has a growing tech scene but a small English-speaking community and little care to match.

Porto Alegre's riverfront — English-speaking therapy in Porto Alegre

Why it matters here

A southern tech city, small international scene

Porto Alegre's growing tech sector draws some international workers, but the English-speaking community stays small and the support for it smaller still. For anyone here living in English, local options in their language barely exist. Online, that stops mattering: you choose from everyone working in English and meet from home.

About Wefeel

What Wefeel is — and what it isn't

Wefeel is a place to find a therapist and arrange to meet them online. We verify that every therapist listed here is qualified to practise, and we give them a place to be found.

We are not a clinic and we are not a party to your therapy. The session is between you and your therapist, and it belongs to the two of you. What is said in it stays there.

Wefeel is also not a crisis service. If you are in immediate danger, the numbers below will reach someone right now.

What we work with

What brings people here

  • Loneliness and isolation

    When your social life is made entirely of colleagues, and everyone who knew you before is in another time zone.

  • Anxiety and chronic stress

    Visas, contracts, rent, the low hum of living somewhere you could be asked to leave.

  • Depression and flatness

    Especially the kind that is hard to name, because on paper the move worked.

  • Identity and belonging

    Caught between where you're from and where you live, between who you were and whoever this is now.

  • Relationships and family

    Including the strain of having moved together — or of having moved without them.

  • Homesickness and grief

    For people, for a former life, for the version of yourself that existed before you left.

This is not a complete list. If you're struggling with something that isn't here, get in touch anyway. Therapy begins with you, not with a category — and it doesn't require you to have found the right word for it first.

How it works

Three steps

Choose your therapist, pick a time in your own zone, meet by video from home.

You don't need a diagnosis to start

Most people begin with no name for it.

Reading

Written by the therapists themselves

Articles about anxiety, sleep, grief, burnout and the rest of it — written by the people you can book a session with.

If you need help right now

Wefeel is not a crisis service

If you are thinking about ending your life, or you're afraid of what you might do, please don't wait for an appointment. Emergency services answer at any hour, free of charge, and in English.

  • Emergency — SAMU ambulance / police192 / 190
  • CVV (Centro de Valorização da Vida) — 24 hours a day, free (Portuguese language)188

Common questions

Are there English-speaking therapists in Porto Alegre?

Very few — online, not a limit.

Do I need Portuguese?

No.

Does my employer see anything?

No.

Start in your own language

Read the profiles, take your time, and choose someone you can talk to properly. No waiting list, and no need to do this in a language that isn't yours.

For therapists

Working in English in Brazil?

If you're a qualified therapist who works online in English, you can list your practice on Wefeel.