Therapy in English, in Rio
Online, on your schedule. For the community living here in English.
Rio draws expats, remote workers, and long-term visitors to its beauty — a life that can look like a permanent holiday and feel like something else.
Our therapists
Therapists who work in English
Sessions are online, so location doesn't limit who you can see.
Piotr KowalskiPsychotherapist
Available onlineterapia online | psychoterapia gestalt
Languages: Polish · English
80 € / session
Justyna CzyżDoula
Available onlineI support parents as a certified ClauWi babywearing consultant (since 2022) and a doula (since 2023), having completed…
Languages: Polish · English
55 € / session
Joanna AdamsonPsychotherapist
Available onlineShe holds a diploma in integrative psychotherapy obtained at an institute that is a member of the European Association…
Languages: Polish · English
65 € / session
Why it matters here
The postcard and the reality underneath
Rio's beauty pulls in internationals — remote workers, expats, people who came for a season and stayed. The gap between the postcard and the ordinary hard days can be disorienting, and it's easiest to unpack in your own language. English-speaking therapy is scarce locally; online, 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.
A beautiful place can still be a hard one
You don't have to justify struggling by pointing to something visibly wrong.
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 Rio?
A few, and more online.
Do I need Portuguese?
No.
The gap between how it looks and how I feel is confusing — normal?
Very. A common reason people who relocate seek support.
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.