Licenced in Medicine by the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, she concluded he specific training in Psychiatry in the Adult Psychiatry Service at the Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental.

During this time she interned in phenomenological psychopathology at the Center for Investigation of subjectivity in Copenhagen in Denmark. She is a member of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicoterapia Existencial and trainee in behavioral cognitive psychotherapies (Mindfulness). She cooperates frequently in projects of psychological and psychiatric intervention in risk settings associated to the use of psychoactive substances.